Set your children free...

• Guest 710

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  13 March 2012     08:22158997
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  Unfortunately this will mean some overland travel too.
  These ships, as we have seen, do pass Dover from time to time. Perhaps the organisers think your children well versed and practised in the ways of the sea. You may agree that it is a pity that the do not (as yet?) do day-sails from Dover...
  
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• Guest 640

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  13 March 2012     09:21159012
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  We do have several of these training ships come to and through Dover. One time the young trainee sailors used to stand way up high aloft the rigging as they entered the port.( ermm I tried a nautical term there hopefully getting it right ). But thats outlawed now I believe following the fatality last year.
  
  Will see if I can fetch up a picture in a minute.
  Yes there are a number of pictures but try this one with the unpronouncable name..
  

  

  
  
  Its the..wait for it...the Dar Mlodziezy...from Poland.
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• Guest 717

  • Registered: 16 Jun 2011
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  13 March 2012     09:31159017
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  Didn't the one we had in a few years ago have a nasty de-masting a few weeks later? I believe it was escorted to safety by RNLI? I love seeing these in Dover, I expect it was a common sight once upon a time
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• Guest 710

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  13 March 2012     09:33159018
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  Thanks Paul. Yes I recall that one came in at the time of Marek's illness and we never did get the low-down of proper pronunciation.
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