Last night I explored a Russian tallship that was in port at Auckland. The ship was built in Gdansk, Poland, in 1989, and is used for training cadets at a Russian Fisheries Academy in Vladivostok. At least, that's what I understood based upon my very rusty two years of college Russian.
It was pretty cool, and I couldn't imagine having to climb the rigging and walk out on the spars while at sea. If you look carefully in the last picture, you can see a sailor up on the spar at the top of the rigging. By way of comparision, that's at least 10 stories up.
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