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The Grand Regatta '92fleet tightly packed westward ofthe Canary Islands at the start ofthe race to Puerto Rico. In the foreground is Eye of the Wind and to her right Young Endeavour.
New York Harbor, July 4 The oldest Class A ship, the woodenhulled Gazela.from Philadelphia, built in Portugal in 1883, is pressed by smaller craft as she passes La.dy Liberty.
The little New Zealand topsail schooner Tradewind, which rounded the Horn to join the Grand Regatta in Puerto Rico, sails in company with the German bark Gorch Fock.
FromPortugal came the Boa Esperanza, a replica of the caravel in which Bartholemew Dias first rounded the Cape of Good Hope .
sailing, the bulk of the fleet from Europe, starting from Cadiz, Spain, on May 3, but others from as far afield as Australia and Japan. Thus, beyond the spectacle that awes and moves sailors and non-sailors alike, when these great ships come together from around the world, driven only by the world 's wind systems and young people learning the exacting disciplines required to enable a big hull to ride the winds, there is a true and lively purpose being exercised: young people learning to know themselves, and learning to know other people of wide! y different backgrounds from different parts of the world through the trials and rewards of shipboard life, where fundamental values PS count for everything, with no counterfeits accepted. 26
SEA HISTORY 62, SUMMER 1992