Tacoma's 2008 Tall Ships festival coverage with updates of the event, insight on some of the ships and their crews and a tour of the fascinating world of tall ships.
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
Posted by John Henrikson @ 04:06:28 pm
True, the cannons are firing blanks, but the danger can be real when you have 50 or 100 ton vessels out playing around in the bay.
Reporter Kris Sherman (on her day off) just phoned in from the deck of the Lynx. Apparently, the schooner almost collided with the Amazing Grace during a cannon battle. The quick thinking Lynx skipper avoided an accident by quickly reversing the engines. A similar near-miss happened between the Hawaiian Chieftain and Lynx on my sailing adventure Saturday. Yes, a collision would have been tragic - but at least in these cases, a trained journalist would have aboard to phone in the story.
