"I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by......" Thanks to all for all the hard work in restoring this legend to sail once again! God Bless!
I recall in the late 80s early 90s when I was carting timber by truck out of white bay and the James Craig was there in a dilapidated state but looking at her she was still a beautiful ship
I heard of James Craig as a pre-teen, she was being worked on in Sydney but she was along way from floatable. It's inspiring how far she's come. A must visit when next I get to Sydney town!
Here on the West coast of the US, the old Star Line ships are some of the survivors, the Balcalutha in San Francisco and the Star of India in San Diego. If you've ever tried to cut iron with a torch, you'll know why the Iron ships last. In the 80's I was Mate/engineer aboard the old Weddell Foss, a 104' long tug built in 1907 of riveted iron, originally steam powered towing railroad barges from Prince Rupert to Stewart AK ....and repowered with a WWII 18 cyl 298 submarine engine. (Thats 298cubic Inches per cylinder) She was sold to an independent tug company, American Navigation, in 1982 and worked as a ship assist boat there....and then sold down to Mexico. Sad to see her going downhill over the years, when Foss owned her, she won (by far) the tug boat races on Puget Sound, every year. (Hint: knowing how to override the governor was key) -Veteran -66-68
If I can borrow an Aussie term, 'good on you'. It's so important to preserve historical artifacts so we can know where we came from and hopefully figure out how we got here.
Check out Sydney Heritage Fleet channel we just refloated the John Oxley with a new hull and her engines all rebuilt and now have a k class ferry on our floating dock to replace her hull the Kanangra
Why the heck do you people put background music over speech? All you're saying is that the dialog isn't worth hearing. Thankfully, the closed captions work fairly well on this video.
What for was so notable was the manual trade skills being exhibited during the restoration process. With the ever increasing trend to computer controlled machining and digitisation those manual skills are being lost to our detriment.
Im pretty sure they didn't have welders and angle grinders when she was layed down tho. But i agree, every time I see someone 3D print a piece i could file out of stock in less time it takes them coding the dimensions in a CAD program makes me cringe xD
I like history and I like ships but I rate this item as seriously bad. It is a shame the person responsible for editing this is more a musac enthusiast than having a genuine care for History and ships. The Musac was at such a volumme that I had to strain to hear what the narrator was telling us. Thumbs down
"I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by......"
Thanks to all for all the hard work in restoring this legend to sail once again!
God Bless!
Beautiful, simple beautiful. Words can't describe how a wreck turns into a real eye catcher. Well done Australia. 😎👍 . . from America 🇺🇸
I recall in the late 80s early 90s when I was carting timber by truck out of white bay and the James Craig was there in a dilapidated state but looking at her she was still a beautiful ship
Sailed on James Craig from Sydney to Newcastle . it was Great !
I heard of James Craig as a pre-teen, she was being worked on in Sydney but she was along way from floatable. It's inspiring how far she's come. A must visit when next I get to Sydney town!
Bravo Australia...you may be down under but definitely not over!
Inspiring! What a beautiful ship she is.
Wonderful, thanks and respect to all involved...from Colorado USA
Here on the West coast of the US, the old Star Line ships are some of the survivors, the Balcalutha in San Francisco and the Star of India in San Diego. If you've ever tried to cut iron with a torch, you'll know why the Iron ships last. In the 80's I was Mate/engineer aboard the old Weddell Foss, a 104' long tug built in 1907 of riveted iron, originally steam powered towing railroad barges from Prince Rupert to Stewart AK ....and repowered with a WWII 18 cyl 298 submarine engine. (Thats 298cubic Inches per cylinder) She was sold to an independent tug company, American Navigation, in 1982 and worked as a ship assist boat there....and then sold down to Mexico. Sad to see her going downhill over the years, when Foss owned her, she won (by far) the tug boat races on Puget Sound, every year. (Hint: knowing how to override the governor was key) -Veteran -66-68
Thank you.
Many thanks to ship savers.
WHAT a story!
A fantastic job done by everyone involved .
Fantastic !!
Eye candy, indeed
If I can borrow an Aussie term, 'good on you'. It's so important to preserve historical artifacts so we can know where we came from and hopefully figure out how we got here.
Oops, that's 'good on ya'.
Helped in restoration years ago… been out to on her a couple of times…
I help restoreing in 1997
Drove past it many tomes when it lay waiting in the derwent
Looks like the star of India.
Why why has the UK not followed Australia and given us a tall ship they made it look easy and it could be !!
Check out Sydney Heritage Fleet channel we just refloated the John Oxley with a new hull and her engines all rebuilt and now have a k class ferry on our floating dock to replace her hull the Kanangra
Why the heck do you people put background music over speech? All you're saying is that the dialog isn't worth hearing. Thankfully, the closed captions work fairly well on this video.
Whow! Bunch of guys with marbles in their mouth and some jerk taking piano lessons!im impressed!
Magnificent job. I followed the progress from the early 70s. But please, she is a "square-rigger." Tall Ship is a vague, over used, poetic cliche.
Barque ,,,
What for was so notable was the manual trade skills being exhibited during the restoration process. With the ever increasing trend to computer controlled machining and digitisation those manual skills are being lost to our detriment.
Im pretty sure they didn't have welders and angle grinders when she was layed down tho. But i agree, every time I see someone 3D print a piece i could file out of stock in less time it takes them coding the dimensions in a CAD program makes me cringe xD
there's a similar ship in Honolulu- the Falls of Clyde - in much better shape than James was, that the state keeps trying to scuttle
Gone to party’s on the Falls decades ago. Good fun!
Where are the old photos of the pour kids the pumped those rivert in with huwey the marine biologist
i wentt on the ship in 2019
Thumbs down because the music is louder than the voices.
I like history and I like ships but I rate this item as seriously bad. It is a shame the person responsible for editing this is more a musac enthusiast than having a genuine care for History and ships. The Musac was at such a volumme that I had to strain to hear what the narrator was telling us. Thumbs down