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ron ll
04-01-2009, 01:11 PM
Trying to save them before they fade forever. Boat is Barque Monte Cristo on which I crewed for a few months in 1969 including Seattle to San Francisco.

http://www.ronlloyd.com/oddstuff/fullsail.jpg
http://www.ronlloyd.com/oddstuff/royalsmall.jpg
neilm
04-01-2009, 02:17 PM
Nice!
J. Dillon
04-01-2009, 07:20 PM
Good shots. :D I especially like the one of you aloft. ;)Which mast are you on ?:confused:

JD
goodbasil
04-01-2009, 07:32 PM
Is that the Monti Cristo built by a guy by the name of Alex ...?
I used to know him. Lives here in Lions Bay.
ron ll
04-01-2009, 07:33 PM
Main mast, royal yard. I was on that same yard furling the royal one time off the coast when we took a knockdown due to being underballasted. I wasn't standing quite as casually then.
ron ll
04-01-2009, 07:37 PM
Is that the Monti Cristo built by a guy by the name of Alex ...?
I used to know him. Lives here in Lions Bay.

Yes. Altho I don't think I ever met Alex. By the time I was on it, it was owned by a Vancouver corporation and managed by a crook who left a trail of unpaid bills. We (the crew) got fed up with him in San Francisco and all abandoned ship. The manager found new inexperienced crew and sailed to New Zealand where they put it on a beach in a storm and made kindling of her. That's when the owners discovered that the manager had not paid the insurance premiums but had rather pocketed the money.
ron ll
04-01-2009, 07:44 PM
Here you go...



Thanks, altho I just posted the raw scans, I photoshopped them later for my archives.
TR
04-01-2009, 10:05 PM
I would have been 13 or 14 when I was aboard her in Campbell River. I suppose they were touring and raising money to go south, somehow I got my mother to give me the small fee charged to get aboard. From a distance she was completely black...PNW liquid sunshine kind of day...nothing like Ron's pictures. No paint on her though...everything, every piece of wood aboard was oiled.

A black square rigger was obviously a real pirate ship...no question! Such a thing had never been seen in this small town of loggers and pulp-mill workers.

I remember thinking the on-deck galley was soo cool. I've been after a pirate ship of my own ever since.