HISTORICAL / TALL SHIPS SIGHTINGS POST HERE

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Comment by LOLA on April 7, 2010 at 9:11pm

The boat is modeled after old English Clippers. The Peacemaker was built in the late 1980s, but it wasn't until Capt. Lee Philips and his crew came along that the boat was finished. The crew is sailing the ship around the east coast and keeping the boat to its natural historic state.

"It was built by a private family in Brazil on the side of a river and they built it out of a Brazilian wood called ipe, which is ironwood. It is a very strong, stout vessel," Phillips said. "They were going to use it as a charter business. They just never finished, so it sat for eight years and then we picked it up and our young folks in our communities, they put it all back together."
Manning this vessel doesn't come without hours of hard work.

Comment by LOLA on April 7, 2010 at 9:02pm

Tall Ship PEACEMAKER in Wilminton, NC to help celebrate Azalea festival

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