EL Education
El Education: Centaur Knot Manual
3rd and 4th grade students from the Santa Fe School for the Arts and Sciences in Santa Fe, New Mexico, created this book of knots as part of a learning expedition on sailing. As one part of their expedition, students studied different...
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Web Gallery of Art: The Dutch Navy Sailing
An image of "The Dutch Navy Sailing", created by Willem van de Velde the Elder in 1672 (Oil on canvas, 112 x 203 cm).
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Web Gallery of Art: Seascapes With Sailing Boat
An image of "Seascapes with Sailing Boat", created by Salomon Van Ruysdael during the 1650's (Oil on oak, 36 x 33 cm).
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Web Gallery of Art: Sailing Vessels
An image of "Sailing Vessels", created by Adam Silo during the 1730's (Oil on canvas, 36 x 52 cm).
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Web Gallery of Art: A Brig Under Sail in Fair Weather
An image of "A Brig under Sail in Fair Weather", created by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg from 1844-45 (Oil on canvas, 47 x 69 cm).
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Web Gallery of Art: Sailing Ships at Deauville
An image of "Sailing Ships at Deauville", created by Eugene Boudin from 1895-96 (Oil on panel, 46 x 37 cm).
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Web Gallery of Art: Seascape With Sailing Boats
An image of "Seascape with Sailing Boats", created by Jan Van De Cappelle after 1652 (Oil on canvas, 67 x 58 cm).
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Web Gallery of Art: A Wijdschip Lowering Sail in a Choppy Sea
An image of "A Wijdschip Lowering Sail in a Choppy Sea", created by Heerman Witmont, c. 1650 (Pen on prepared panel, 37 x 51 cm).
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Web Gallery of Art: Stormy Sea With Sailing Boats
An image of "Stormy Sea with Sailing Boats", created by Jacob Isaackszon Van Ruisdael, c. 1668 (Oil on canvas, 50 x 63 cm).
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Web Gallery of Art: Two Vessels Under Sail
An image of "Two Vessels under Sail", created by Pierre Puget, c. 1674 (Pen, black ink on vellum, 33,3 x 51,1 cm).
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Web Gallery of Art: On the Sailing Boat
An image of "On the Sailing Boat", created by Caspar David Friedrich, c. 1819 (Oil on canvas, 71 x 56 cm).
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Web Gallery of Art: Sailing Boats at Argenteuil
An image of "Sailing Boats at Argenteuil", created by Gustave Caillebotte, c. 1888 (Oil on canvas, 65 x 56 cm).
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Web Gallery of Art: Two Boeiers and a Cat Under Sail
An image of "Two Boeiers and a Cat under Sail", created by Jacob Van Strijz (Oil on canvas, 212 x 189 cm).
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Usmm: u.s. Merchant Ships, Sailing Vessels, and Fishing Craft Lost During Wwi
A comprehensive list of U.S. merchant ships lost due to German raiders, torpedoes, and undersea mines. Includes ships lost before the U.S. joined World War I.
Caro Clarke
The Doldrums: When the Wind Leaves Your Sails
This is the 16th article in a series that gives advice to the new novel writer. This is a particularly interesting and helpful article on how to deal with periods in writing when your enthusiasm wanes.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Ocean Activity Ideas
Explore ocean habitats, learn about the extreme weather of the ocean and examine environmental threats to the ocean. Conduct experiments on buoyancy and osmosis, and research sailing and ocean-based industry.
EL Education
El Education: Tools for Sailors Ahoy, Mate!
In this lesson students learn about sailing and contribute writing, illustrations, and photographs to a class book containing information about navigation equipment, the Beaufort Scale, knots, and the signal system of flags used by...
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Boat safe.com: The History of Navigation
This site discusses the beginnings of using boats for travel and how they made their way from one place to another.
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New Bedford Whaling Museum: Online Exhibitions
The New Bedford Whaling Museum provides a well-done, comprehensive site that includes all aspects of American whaling. This site is a pleasure to amble through if you love the lore and legend of late eighteenth-century sailing ships,...
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Science Careers: Marine Architect
The marine architect is the one who designs many kinds of vessels which sail the seven seas. This Science Buddies site lays out the requirements needed to become a marine architect, as well as the education and job description. Included...
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American Merchant Marine at War: u.s. Merchant Marine in World War Ii
Gives an excellent history of the sailing ships and sailors of the Merchant Marine in both the Atlantic and Pacific. Links on the page include many firsthand accounts of the sailors and their experiences during the war.
PBS
Pbs: Scientific American Frontiers: Little Ice Age
Did you know there was a global 'Little Ice Age' around the time Columbus sailed across the Atlantic? Climatologists have documented changes in temperature and how countries and people around the world were affected. What caused the LIA?...
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Explorers
Do you know who Afonso de Albuquerque was? Do you know where Robert de LaSalle was from or where Jacques Cartier sailed? Enchanted Learning's A-to-Z list of explorers lets you browse through a large collection of biographical notes on...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: On the Water: Maritime Nation: Shipwrecks
Illustrated accounts of the destruction and loss of two ships sailing to America across the Atlantic illuminate the dangers of nineteenth-century travel and the modes of rescue available at the time. With a range of archival material,...
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