{"id":3626,"date":"2023-01-17T03:09:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T03:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/?p=3626"},"modified":"2023-01-19T01:31:17","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T01:31:17","slug":"tallship-interview-with-captain-darwin-garrett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/17\/tallship-interview-with-captain-darwin-garrett\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunltana Tallship interview with Darwin Garrett\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Listen in on our interview on Tuesday morning at 9\u201937 am! Broadcast on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.Sportsbyline.com\" target=\"_blank\">Sportsbyline.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A graduate of Southern Oregon University and a California resident, Darwin has a large background in theater, specifically in directing and leadership roles, teaching young students in organizations including Santa Cruz Parks &amp; Rec Theater and West Creative Performing Arts. After his most recent employment aboard the tall Ship WINDY as a Deckhand Educator, SEF is excited for Darwin to join as a new crew member and continue gaining skills and experience in ship handling and outdoor education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Launched in 2001, the SEF\u2019S namesake schooner SULTANA is a reproduction of a Boston-built merchant vessel that served for four years as the smallest schooner ever commissioned in the British Royal Navy. The modern SULTANA sails as a school ship, taking more than 4,500 students out onto the Chesapeake Bay each year for hands-on programs in environmental science and history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SULTANA sails with school systems around the Chesapeake, regularly sailing from ports including Chestertown, Annapolis, Baltimore, St. Michaels, Cambridge, Oxford, Solomons, and Crisfield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"(Audio 199) Sail Sport Talk with Karen Lile and Rick Tittle: Dr. Claybourne Carson; Darwin Garrett\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/790314797?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sultana\u2019s Downrigging Festival: <strong>October 27-29, 2023<\/strong>Tall Ships and Bluegrass with a Cause!<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now in its 22nd year, the Sultana Education Foundation\u2019s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/downrigging.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Downrigging Weekend Festival<\/a> is one of the largest annual tall ship gatherings in North America. The festival features a long-weekend of Tall Ship sails, tours, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CjIr7XesVLy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">incredible live bluegrass music, lectures, exhibits, family activities,<\/a> regional food and more. Proceeds benefit the Foundation\u2019s environmental literacy programs and the other nonprofits participating in the festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sailsporttalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/DSC_0244.jpeg?resize=640%2C432&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3633\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sailsporttalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/DSC_0244.jpeg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sailsporttalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/DSC_0244.jpeg?resize=300%2C203&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sailsporttalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Resized_IMG_5160.jpeg?resize=650%2C488&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3629\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sailsporttalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Resized_IMG_5160.jpeg?w=1008&amp;ssl=1 1008w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sailsporttalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Resized_IMG_5160.jpeg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sailsporttalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Resized_IMG_5160.jpeg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>HISTORY<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The original schooner Sultana\u2019s keel was laid at Benjamin<br>Hallowell\u2019s shipyard<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/sultanaeducation.org\/history-of-the-schooner-sultana\/\" target=\"_blank\"> in Boston, Massachusetts in 1767.<\/a><br>Hallowell had been contracted to build Sultana by Sir Thomas<br>Asquith, a South Hampton merchant who intended to use the<br>vessel as a combination cargo schooner and yacht. Though small,<br>measuring just 50 feet 6 inches from stem to stern, she was<br>nevertheless built as stout as a ship of the line. The schooner\u2019s<br>solid construction would serve her well, as only months after her<br>launch into Boston Harbor, Asquith hired a captain and crew to<br>sail the vessel across the frigid waters of the North Atlantic to the<br>Royal Navy Yard in Deptford, England, in hopes the Admiralty<br>would see fit to purchase her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Prior to Sultana\u2019s arrival in Deptford, the Royal Navy had been<br>charged with enforcing the newly enacted Townsend Acts. By<br>authority of the British Parliament and King George III, these<br>acts imposed duties on tea, paint, paper, lead and other items<br>imported by the American colonists. Lacking the quick and<br>maneuverable vessels needed to monitor colonial shipping<br>effectively, the Royal Navy would, ironically, turn to American<br>designed and built schooners to augment its fleet. In March of<br>1768, Royal Navy shipwrights surveyed Sultana and were<br>favorably impressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the schooner\u2019s purchase, the Royal Navy\u2019s shipwrights<br>immediately began refitting, arming and provisioning Sultana for<br>her new life as a revenue cutter in colonial North America.<br>Topmasts, yards and square sails were added to the original \u201cbare<br>poled\u201d American rig, bunks were added to accommodate a crew<br>of twenty-five, and eight half-pound swivel guns were mounted<br>along the rails. After taking on drinking water and provisions,<br>Sultana departed England on August 28, 1768, and sailed into the<br>political firestorm developing in the American colonies.<br>After a harrowing two-month crossing of the Atlantic, Sultana<br>arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on October 24, 1768, and was<br>immediately ordered to Boston Harbor. The tiny schooner soon<br>found herself part of the largest fleet of war ships ever assembled<br>in North America, helping to transport thousands of troops sent<br>to occupy and subdue the rebellious city of Boston. Only twelve<br>months out of the yard, Sultana was taking part in the first<br>significant military action of the conflict that would become the<br>American Revolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Sultana\u2019s arrival in Boston also marked the first time one of her<br>crew members deserted ship in North America. In the confusion<br>of transporting the British troops to Boston\u2019s long wharf on<br>November 16, 1768, able-bodied seaman Edward Cunningham<br>slipped into the crowds gathered to watch the proceedings and<br>made his escape. While Mr. Cunningham was the first sailor to<br>run away, he certainly was not the last. Over the course of her<br>four-year tour of duty, Sultana suffered an annual desertion rate<br>approaching 100%. A crew that began as a collection of mostly<br>English and Irish sailors evolved into a diverse mix of British,<br>European and American-born sailors<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While most of the new 1110 American crew members were of European descent, at least one<br>man, Prince Gould, had ancestors who had been brought to America as slaves from West Africa<br><br>With the British troops landed, Sultana left Boston in early<br>December, 1768. For the next four years, the schooner patrolled<br>the waters of the Atlantic coast, calling at Boston, New York,<br>New Jersey, Nova Scotia, Cape Cod, North Carolina, Chesapeake<br>Bay, Narragansett Bay and Delaware Bay. Sultana\u2019s daily activities<br>were detailed in logs kept by her commander, Lieutenant John<br>Inglis, and her Master, David Bruce. These men also maintained<br>the vessel\u2019s muster books, keeping track of every man who<br>worked aboard. Amazingly, all of these documents have survived<br>intact to the present day, providing one of the most authentic and<br>thoroughly documented histories available for an American-built<br>vessel of this period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Sultana patrolled the Chesapeake Bay from October, 1769,<br>through August, 1770. Master Bruce\u2019s logs from this time period<br>indicate that the schooner was never busier than when she sailed<br>the Chesapeake, searching inbound ships from London, Glasgow,<br>Liverpool, Lisbon, Barbados, Jamaica, Antigua, Port-au-Prince, St.<br>Christopher\u2019s, Boston, Nantucket, New York and Philadelphia.<br>In July of 1770, Sultana sailed up the Potomac River, mooring<br>near Colonel George Washington\u2019s estate at Mount Vernon. On<br>the evening of July 29th, Lieutenant Inglis and Master Bruce<br>dined with the future president.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1771 and 1772, American sailors were becoming<br>increasingly intolerant of the Royal Navy\u2019s searches. Lieutenant<br>Inglis was often forced to fire Sultana\u2019s swivel guns across the bow of ships reluctant to allow a search of their cargo. Occasionally, Sultana was met with violent resistance in the course of her duties.<br>Sultana\u2019s commander, Lieutenant John Inglis, and her master, David<br>Bruce, dined with the future general and president George Washington<br>when Sultana anchored off Mount Vernon in July of 1770.<br>On January 21, 1771, the schooner had her first significant<br>encounter with angry American colonists in Newport, Rhode<br>Island. In response to the seizure of a crew member who had<br>deserted Sultana, angry citizens took matters into their own hands.<br>Master David Bruce recorded this event in his log: \u201cThe people of<br>Newport threatened to board us, cut us off (the anchor), and burn the<br>Schooner\u201d (PRO ADM 52\/1455-6). After a tense confrontation<br>the crowd dispersed and Sultana escaped. On May 9, 1772,<br>another violent encounter occurred near Newcastle, Delaware,<br>when the crew of the brig Carolina attempted to recapture their<br>seized vessel. They were repelled by Lieutenant Inglis\u2019s crew with<br>grapeshot and musket fire.<br>With her ability as a warship being tested almost daily, the<br>Royal Navy decided to recall Sultana from the North American<br>station. In October, 1772, the schooner sailed back to England<br>and within a few months of her return she was sold out of the<br>Royal Navy. Sultana likely spent the twilight of her years as a<br>merchant ship, sailing the waters off the British Isles.<br>Though Sultana was neither the largest nor the most powerful<br>vessel to emerge from an American shipyard, she has the more<br>important distinction of having participated in the formative<br>events of the American republic. The laws Sultana enforced drove<br>the colonists to reassess fundamental assumptions about<br>government and society that had shaped Europe for more than<br>two thousand years. The egalitarian principles that took root in<br>America during Sultana\u2019s years have been the driving force behind<br>much of American history ever since.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen in on our interview on Tuesday morning at 9\u201937 am! Broadcast on Sportsbyline.com A graduate of Southern Oregon University and a California resident, Darwin has a large background in theater, specifically in directing and leadership roles, teaching young students in organizations including Santa Cruz Parks &amp; Rec Theater and West Creative Performing Arts. After his most recent employment aboard the tall Ship WINDY as a Deckhand Educator, SEF is excited for Darwin to join as a new crew member and continue gaining skills and experience in ship handling and outdoor education. 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