The News, Culture and Practice of Sailing woodenboats
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Dead in the Water in 1866
The wind fell away, stalling the ship in irons, the limp sails useless in the dead calm. The prevailing southwest current and a long swell relentlessly drifted GENERAL GRANT shoreward, then to her doom.
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