Home»My Photography Collection»The Ford Family»Our Honeymoon»Sailing the Boston Harbor on the USS Liberty Clipper

Liberty Clipper is a magnificent 125 foot tall gaff-rigged schooner ("tall ship") named after the sloop John Hancock used for smuggling tea into Boston before the American Revolution. With its 3 head sails (jibs), a fore sail, and a main sail based on designs for real privateers, gives the experience of sailing into Boston Harbor on a tall ship 250 years ago might have felt like.