@msbellows
I saw your mention of work in mountain rescue! When I was a volunteer crew member on tall ship Elissa at the Texas Seaport Museum in Galveston, I was trained in rig rescue. Our job was to get into this harness and be hoisted aloft to help should a crew member be injured in the rigging (80-100 feet above the deck) and unable to climb down.
This me in about 1989 on a training exercise. Luckily I never was called on to do it for real.
@thisismyglasgow
A far happier story is the barque Elissa, built at the Alexander Hall shipyard in Glasgow in 1877, fully restored by the Galveston (Texas) Historical Foundation in the 1980s, still lovingly maintained by volunteers, and still sails on sea trials every fall in the Gulf of Mexico. Elissa is open to the public at the Texas Seaport Museum, where I was assistant director in 1990-91.
#TexasSeaportMuseum
#GalvestonHistoricalFoundation
#TallShip
Just a little #ThrowbackThursday
One thing I know that's a little different: I can sail a square-rigged vessel. I was a volunteer crewmember aboard the tall ship #Elissa at the #TexasSeaportMuseum in #Galveston at the end of the 80s. I was the museum's assistant director in 1990-91.
That's me just to the left of the mast, helping furl the main topgallant.
