Sail of Hope. YOU CAN HELP!!
Sail of Hope is a Humanitarian Aid organization that sends food items and clothing to disadvantaged children, orphans and widows in Moscow, Russia. Sail of Hope was originally chartered in Moscow, Russia by a courageous woman, Larissa Zelentsova. Sail of Hope exists to help the mentally and physically challenged people of Russia. It helps widows as well. In 1992 Sail of Hope became a member of the International League of Societies for Mentally Handicapped people. They have contact offices in Germany, France, England and the USA. Over 30 chapters of Sail of Hope, spanning some 13 regions of Russia, are in existence today. Humanitarian Aid is shipped from their office in the USA to Moscow. It is their goal to fill containers with basic food items, warm clothing and winter blankets. Sail of Hope also has Consultative Status with the United Nations in New York, NY USA.
YOU CAN HELP!!
SAIL of HOPE – P.O. Box 488 – Monroe, VA 24574 U.S.A.
Tel. 434-384-5613
Benefits from the sale of the image above, depicting the Russian Tall Ship Kruzenshtern, will be donated by pabloavanzini.com to Sail of Hope.
Thank you for your cooperation!!
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The Last Time Around Cape Horn: The Historic 1949 Voyage of the Windjammer Pamir
By William F. Stark
A memorable tale of adventure on the turbulent seas of the Great Southern and Atlantic oceans—on one of the most historic voyages of our time—finds its way into paperback. This is William F. Stark’s engrossing memoir of the last leg of the Grain Race, and the Pamir’s rounding of fearsome Cape Horn—the storm-tossed tip of South America just 600 miles from Antarctica—the veritable Mount Everest of sailing. In 1949, the crew of thirty-four sailors from around the world experienced the shipboard life of the seventeenth century on a four-masted vessel that carried hundreds of acres of sail. In 128 days the Pamir journeyed 16,000 miles from Port Victoria, Australia, to Falmouth, England, through the world’s stormiest seas, as Stark worked on decks awash with huge swells, and scrambled up ice-coated rigging to manhandle sails on masts that were up to twenty stories high. Contrasting romance with the realities of life at sea, and poignantly evoking the love affair he left behind to join the Pamir, while punctuating his tale with illuminating photos, maps, and details of maritime history, Stark has written a thrilling book that climaxes the fabled era begun by Cape Horn merchant sailors more than three centuries ago.
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
The year 1949 marked the final journeys of commercial windjammers, huge, steel-hulled, four-masted sailboats carrying cargo halfway around the world. Stark was a sailor on the Pamir, a Finnish ship, the very last windjammer to sail commercially around Cape Horn, and lived to write this romantic tale of adventure and camaraderie tempered by grueling, dangerous work. The author, who committed suicide earlier this year at age 75 after suffering from depression, had been enthralled with ships and sailing since childhood. He first heard of the Pamir’s voyage in a Zurich cafe during a year abroad as a college student in 1947. He quit school to fly to Australia to try to get a job on the ship. That trip, on a tiny, rickety charter plane, was an adventure in itself, as Stark and his seat mate, a charming Frenchwoman en route to Indonesia, were engaged in a brief but passionate affair as they braved hair-raising takeoffs and brushes with guerrilla war in Saigon. Eventually arriving at the Pamir’s port, Stark spent months working on the docks, acquiring, at the last minute, a much-coveted berth on the Pamir as an Ordinary Seaman. The four-month voyage across the world’s most stormy and dangerous seas, without engines or even a radio, challenged him not only with dangers like furling sails atop 200-foot-high masts in hurricane winds, but also with grinding work and sleep deprivation demanded by four-hour watches. This entertaining memoir seamlessly imparts sailing terms and ocean lore, and will enthrall all who have held romantic notions of life at sea. Maps, photos not seen by PW.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
In 1949 the Pamir sailed from Port Victoria, Australia, to Falmouth, England, a 16,000-mile, 128-day journey through raging seas. It was the last commercial sailing vessel to round Cape Horn, the storm-tossed tip of South America, and it^B carried 60,000 sacks of barley. On board was Stark, a 22-year-old sailor who worked on the decks along with 33 other seamen. Stark describes his four-hour watches with little sleep (he was fully dressed with clothes perpetually wet with seawater), drinking rum (a time-honored reward for hard work and a job well done), raging gales, torrential tropical rain, the sheer terror of sailing through a hurricane, and floundering around in the fog and calm off the Cornish coast. Stark’s son, Peter, wrote the introduction, a loving tribute to his father, who killed himself earlier this year. The book, with 16 pages of black-and-white photographs, is^B a fascinating account of this historic voyage. George Cohen
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Customer Reviews
A Very Worthwhile Reading Experience
The author presents a very well written personal memoir of his 1949 trip around Cape Horn on an old fashioned windjammer. He was a junior at Dartmouth studying “abroad” in Europe when in pursuit of his dream he travelled by airplane to Australia in the hope of securing a deckhand position on a four masted barque. I found that the story was very well presented. Not being a sailor myself, I found that the author more than adequately presented the nautical and seafaring jargon in easy to understand layman’s terms. In reading this book I felt that I was the beneficiary of an “old timer” telling his very personal story of a great adventure just to me. You will not be disappointed if you enjoy sea stories well told.
Follow your dream!
A gem. I didn’t want it to end. The best adventure I’ve read since Stephen Ambrose’s ”Undaunted Courage.” Give it to your father; give it to your sons.
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Lütte Sail Bremerhaven
27-28 August 2008
The International Summer Festival of Tall Ships, traditional ships and yachts.
More than 250 large tall ships were built here. And more than seven million emigrants set off from here for the
Maritime tradition for a successful future.
For tickets, dates and reservations:
BIS Bremerhaven Touristik
TouristCenter Hafeninsel
H.-H.-Meier-Straße 6
27568 Bremerhaven
Germany
Tel: 0049 (0)471 – 9 46 46 10
Fax: 0049 (0)471 – 9 46 46 19
Email
www.sail-bremerhaven.de
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The Kruzenshtern: The end of the Tall Ships?
The Krunzenshtern, departing the port of Cadiz during the Quincentennial Tall Ships race in 1992.
The four-masted bark, built in 1926 as the “Padua”, is the last vessel of its kind. Built as a cargo-carrying sailing ship, she was one of the Flying P-Liners, the sailing ships of the German F. Laeisz shipping company from Hamburg.
The last Windjammer is still active today, although it has undergone a change in profession and turned training ship. Today the “Kruzenshtern” is the world’s second largest sailing ship – second to Russian “Sedov” – and, without a doubt, the most famous ship in the contemporary Russian sailing fleet.
On August 10, 1957 the “Pamir”left Buenos Aires for Hamburg with a crew of 86, including 52 cadets. Her cargo of 3,780 tons of barley was stored loose in the holds and ballast tanks, secured by 255 tons in sacks stacked on top of the loose grain.
On the morning of September 21, 1957, the ship was caught in Hurricane Carrie before having shortened sails. Pamir soon listed severely to port.
Pamir was able to send distress signals before capsizing at 13:03 local time and sinking within 30 minutes in the middle of the Atlantic 600 sea miles west-southwest of the Azores at position 35°57′N 40°20′W
A nine-day search for survivors was organized by the United States Coast Guard cutter “Absecon”, but only four crewmen and two cadets were rescued alive from two of the life boats.
The shipwreck was perceived as a tragedy around the world and received extensive press coverage. This event signaled the end of an era, that of the great cargo-carrying sailing vessels, the “Cape Horners”.
It would seem surprising that as the 21st century dawns, amidst the surge of new technologies in the age of globalization, great wind powered vessels are still crossing the oceans based on the same principles used for more than 6000 years. Even more surprising is the fact that year after year the list of tall ships is constantly being increased with new constructions.
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