Jun 6, 2018
Photographed 2018 by Slade Powell
Charles W. Morgan with her topsails set! So good to see canvas on her at last. It’s been a long winter.
Why does she have two topsails on the same mast? Well at one point in the 19th century some bright spark said “you know what would be faster than one topsail? TWO TOPSAILS” His buddies said “isn’t that a topgallant” and he responded “no lads I mean TWO TOPSAILS” and they said “go home you’re drunk”. But he didn’t. Whoever this mad inventor was, he made it happen and it caught on for awhile, like pet rocks or the charleston, before dropping away into the misty backwaters of history where it frankly belongs. RIP that guy and his dream, a dream of TWO TOPSAILS
