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Take the wheel and feel the power of this 110 ft. sailing ship! You sail the boat past lover's beach, the world famous arch, Land's End and into the Pacific. Where else can you get a chance to actually steer a tall ship built in 1885? This boat is big! Over one hundred feet long and nineteen feet wide, she is big, roomy and stable.
The 'Sunderland' is a tall ship built in 1885 in Lowestoft, England by Samuel Richards. Her first name was "Civil Lord" and then changed to 'Sunderland' when she worked out of the town of Sunderland, England. The ship, designed for fishing and carrying cargo, had its first career sailing the heaviest ocen in the world, the North Sea.
This vessel is built of English oak on oak with a typical English plum stem which creates a lengthening of the waterline and gives her an advantage in sailing speed. The ships from the 1800's are now mostly replicas. English oak is a wood of longevity and it is next to impossible to find lumber of length and age to build such a ship as this today. Sunderland fished in the North Sea for 50 years. Her career went from a fishing and cargo vessel to a yacht when she had her first motor installed in the year of 1935, when the commercial use of sailing turned to power engines. She then sailed to the Americas where she was chosen to film the movie "Captains Courageous" making this her second career. This ship is definitely a hard working and lucky ship. She is now on her third career, sailing out of Cabo San Lucas doing pirate historical tours and robbing and pillaging tourists with the rest of the town. |
