A Tall Ship and Humidty to Sail Her By

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A Tall Ship and Humidty to Sail Her By

This week, the Hermione was docked in Alexandria, Virginia for tours and picture taking and lots and lots of people:

Hermione, an exact replica of the ship that brought the Marquis de Lafayette to George Washington with news of full French aid in 1780, turning the tide of the American Revolution.

I was hoping to get a ticket for a tour on board, so I left home at 7:30 and got there probably about eightish. There were already 200 people in line for the stand-by tickets.

It was also headed into the eighties and very humid. So I walked around and took pictures of the ship.

It was a lot bigger than I expected. There is truth to John Masefield’s poem line, “And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.” The masts were easily three stories tall.