I like Ships too



This magnificent sailing vessel is a replica of the 139-foot yacht (AMERICA) that won the historic, Royal Yacht Squadron’s “100 Guinea Cup” race around the Isle of Wight in 1851.

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12-Sept MON Annapolis, MD National Sailing Hall of Fame
13-Sept TUES Annapolis, MD National Sailing Hall of Fame
14-Sept WED Annapolis, MD National Sailing Hall of Fame
15-Sept THUR Annapolis, MD National Sailing Hall of Fame
16-Sept FRI Annapolis, MD National Sailing Hall of Fame
17-Sept SAT Annapolis, MD National Sailing Hall of Fame
18-Sept SUN Oxford, MD Tred Avon Yacht Club
19-Sept MON TRAVEL TRAVEL
20-Sept TUES TRAVEL TRAVEL
21-Sept WED Beaufort, NC North Carolina Maritime Museum
22-Sept THUR Beaufort, NC North Carolina Maritime Museum
23-Sept FRI Wrightsville Beach, NC Carolina Yacht Club
24-Sept SAT Wrightsville Beach, NC Carolina Yacht Club
25-Sept SUN Wrightsville Beach, NC Carolina Yacht Club
26-Sept MON Wrightsville Beach, NC The City of Wrightsville
27-Sept TUES TRAVEL TRAVEL
28-Sept WED Charleston, SC Carolina Yacht Club
29-Sept THUR Hilton Head Island, SC Skull Creek Marina
30-Sept FRI Savannah, GA Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum
1-Oct SAT Savannah, GA Savannah Yacht Club
2-Oct SUN Jacksonville, FL The Florida Yacht Club
3-Oct MON Jacksonville, FL
4-Oct TUES St. Augustine, FL St. Augustine Yacht Club
5-Oct WED TRAVEL TRAVEL
6-Oct THUR TRAVEL TRAVEL
7-Oct FRI Fort Lauderdale, FL Lauderdale Yacht Club
8-Oct SAT Miami, FL Coral Reef Yacht Club
9-Oct SUN Key Biscayne, FL Key Biscayne Yacht Club
10-Oct MON TRAVEL TRAVEL
11-Oct TUES Marco Island, FL Marco Island Yacht Club
12-Oct WED Naples, FL Naples Yacht Club
13-Oct THUR Sarasota, FL Sarasota Yacht Club
14-Oct FRI Tampa, FL Davis Island Yacht Club
15-Oct SAT St. Petersburg, FL St. Petersburg Yacht Club
16-Oct SUN St. Petersburg, FL The City of St. Petersburg
17-Oct MON Clearwater, FL Clearwater Yacht Club
18-Oct TUES TRAVEL TRAVEL
19-Oct WED TRAVEL TRAVEL
20-Oct THUR TRAVEL TRAVEL
21-Oct FRI Gulfport, MS Gulfport Yacht Club
22-Oct SAT Gulfport, MS Southern Yacht Club/Gulfport Yacht Club
23-Oct SUN Gulfport, MS Pass Christian Yacht Club/Gulfport Yacht Club
24-Oct MON TRAVEL TRAVEL
25-Oct TUES TRAVEL TRAVEL
26-Oct WED TRAVEL TRAVEL
27-Oct THUR Galveston, TX Texas Seaport Museum
28-Oct FRI Galveston, TX Texas Seaport Museum
29-Oct SAT Galveston, TX Lakewood Yacht Club/Texas Seaport Museum
30-Oct SUN Galveston, TX Houston Yacht Club/Texas Seaport Museum
31-Oct MON TRAVEL TRAVEL
1-Nov TUES TRAVEL TRAVEL
2-Nov WED Pascagoula, MS Singing River Yacht Club
3-Nov THUR Pascagoula, MS
4-Nov FRI Mobile, AL GulfQuest National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico
5-Nov SAT Mobile, AL GulfQuest National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico
6-Nov SUN Mobile, AL GulfQuest National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico
7-Nov MON Mobile, AL GulfQuest National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico
8-Nov TUES Mobile, AL GulfQuest National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico
9-Nov WED Mobile, AL GulfQuest National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico
10-Nov THUR Pensacola, FL
11-Nov FRI Pensacola, FL Pensacola Yacht Club
12-Nov SAT Pensacola, FL The City of Pensacola
13-Nov SUN Panama City, FL St. Andrews Bay Yacht Club
14-Nov MON TRAVEL TRAVEL
15-Nov TUES TRAVEL TRAVEL
16-Nov WED Havana, Cuba
17-Nov THUR Havana, Cuba




 


I will see her this Saturday.




The USS Zumwalt and she is to be commanded by Captain James Kirk.




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by The Associated Press

BATH, Maine (AP) — Captain Kirk's futuristic-looking vessel sports cutting-edge technology, new propulsion and powerful armaments, but this ship isn't the Starship Enterprise.

The skipper of the stealthy Zumwalt is Navy Capt. James Kirk, and yes, he's used to the jokes about the name he shares with the TV starship commander played by actor William Shatner.

Kirk takes it in stride.

"I don't take any offense," he told The Associated Press in an interview. "If it's a helpful moniker that brings attention to help us to do what we need to do to get the ship into the fleet and into combat operations, then that's fine."

While it's no starship, the technology-laden Zumwalt taking shape at Maine's Bath Iron Works is unlike any other U.S. warship.

The Navy's largest destroyer will feature a composite deckhouse with hidden radar and sensors and an angular shape that minimizes its radar signature. Its unusual wave-piercing hull will reduce the ship's wake.

It's the first U.S. surface warship to use electric propulsion, and its power plant is capable of producing enough electricity to light up a small city and to power future weapons like the electromagnetic rail gun.

Inside, it's just as unique. The number of sailors needed to stand watch will be reduced through the use of cameras and video monitors that show what's going on outside. The bridge will indeed look like something from "Star Trek" with two chairs surrounded by nearly 360 degrees of video monitors.

A handful of reporters accompanying Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Thursday got a first look at the ship's interior while it's under construction. It's due to be christened in the spring.

The 610-foot-long ship has the highest level of automation on a U.S. surface warship, with systems in place to combat flooding and to put out fires, among other things. Because of automation and technology, the number of sailors needed to run it will be nearly half the current Arleigh Burke-class destroyers.

All this whiz-bam technology comes at a price that sailors couldn't have imagined in the 1960s, when the first episodes of "Star Trek" aired on television. The first-in-class Zumwalt will cost northward of $3.5 billion, a price tag so high that the Navy was forced to reduce the number of ships in the series to just three.

The "Star Trek" comparisons were inevitable even before "Star Trek" actor George Takei used his popular Facebook page to point out the similarities of Kirk's name.

Kirk, a Bethesda, Md., native and 1990 Naval Academy graduate, said the jokes about his name began early in his career, with colleagues telling him that they couldn't wait for him to reach the rank of captain.

The Navy skipper points out that his name is actually James A. Kirk, while the fictional Starship Enterprise captain was James "Jim" T. Kirk. But that didn't stop him from earning the call sign "Tiberius" — the fictional Kirk's middle name — while working with an aircraft carrier strike group. That was later shortened to just "T."

While he doesn't mind the Starfleet jokes, Kirk said that people sometimes focus too much on the technology incorporated in the futuristic-looking Zumwalt.

"Yes, we're going to talk about all of the wonderful technology, but it still requires the sailors who are going to bring her to life," he said.



 
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