[ZULU]

I live in New Jersey and I would love to get down there to see the Kalmar Nyckel.

Those sailing ships were the technological and artistic acroteria of their day.

[afraidfortherepublic]

I must carry a tiny scrap of my sea faring ancestor's DNA because I would love to go sailing on a tall ship. I find it hard to believe that my ancestor crossed the Atlantic THREE times in the mid 1600s. My father's family came a bit earlier (Jamestowne 1607) but they just came and stayed.

GGGGG13grandfather Andersson left to marry a wife and came back to settle in Philadelphia and raise a son. Either he was very brave, very ambitious, or there was nothing very attractive about Europe at the time.

The Viking ships of 500 years earlier were amazing too.

[afraidfortherepublic]

I live in New Jersey and I would love to get down there to see the Kalmar Nyckel.

Contact the dock before you go to make sure that it is in port. It takes trips in the summer time, I'm told. Probably participates in those "Tall Ships" regattas up and down the East Coast.