Photographs of the Tall Ship "Gazela" on her visit to Portsmouth, NH, July 2005. Photographs were taken on three days with very different sky conditions: arrival very late one afternoon; on board one day with brilliant blue sky; and on board one day with milky overcast.

The "Gazela" is rigged as a barkentine with a square-rigged fore mast, a fore-and-aft rigged main mast, and a fore-and-aft rigged mizzen mast.

Before you look at the images, put yourself in the mood by reciting aloud at least the first stanza from John Masefield's "Sea-Fever"
      I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
      And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,
      And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking,
      And a grey mist on the sea's face and a grey dawn breaking.

Photography by Jim Cerny using a Konica-Minolta Dimage A1 camera.