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Taken on a visit to the tall ships.

Not too sure if this is a success or not, the background (a sewage works) may be too distracting.

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From Wikipedia.

A tall ship is a large traditionally rigged sailing vessel. Popular modern tall ship rigs include topsail schooners, brigantines, brigs and barques.

Traditional rigging may include square rigs and gaff rigs, with separate topmasts and topsails. It is generally more complex than modern rigging, which utilizes newer materials such as aluminum and steel to construct taller, lightweight masts with fewer, more versatile sails. It should be noted that most smaller, modern vessels use Bermuda rig. Though it did not become popular elsewhere 'til the Twentieth Century, this rig was developed in Bermuda in the Seventeenth Century, and had historically been used on its small ships, the Bermuda sloops. A modern replica of an 1831, Bermudian-built sloop-of-war is the sail training vessel Spirit of Bermuda (34.13 m, LOA). [1]

The term tall ship has come into widespread use in the mid-20th century with the advent of The Tall Ships' Races.

While Sail Training International (STI) has extended the definition of tall ship for the purpose of its races to embrace any sailing vessel with more than 30 ft. (9.14 m) waterline length and on which at least half the people on board are aged 15 to 25, this definition can include many modern sailing yachts, so for the purposes of this article, tall ship will refer to those vessels rated as class "B" or above (Fore and aft rigged vessels between 100 to 160 feet in length, and all square rigged vessels).