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he tall ship, Kaiwo Maru from Tokyo, visited Steveston July 13~16, 2004. She was moored adjacent to the Britannia Heritage Shipyard, a block from where I live... yet another bonus to living in Steveston. She's a beautiful
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| ©Allan Taylor—The Kaiwo Maru during her 2004 visit to Steveston, BC. |
The former Kaiwo Maru was built in 1930 as a sister ship to Nippon Maru, and trained 11,425 trainees over a little more than 54 years to retirement, and sailed about 1,950,000 kms., or the equivalent of 49 times around earth.
The Kaiwo Maru II, or just Kaiwo Maru, at 110 meters in length, with a main mast towering to over 43 meters, is a 2,556 ton barque and an impressive sight from days past. She is used as a training ship for the Japanese Merchant Navy, through the National Institute for Sea Training.
The Kaiwo Maru is quite the record setter, having won the Boston Tea Pot Trophy 4 times since 1990. The Boston Tea Pot Trophy is a prize presented annually to the sail training vessel which, between January 1st and December 31st each year covers the greatest distance in any period of 124 hours (5 days & 4 hours). She is also a speedster, as well, having logged the fastest average speed 5 times since 1989, the fastest record being 11.2 knots in 1995. For more information on the Kaiwo Maru.
Photographs of the Kaiwo
Maru, July 13~16, 2004
Courtesy of Allan Taylor, Photographer © 2006Click for Kaiwo Maru Visits Steveston, page 2 ==>
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Through his genealogy site, Allan Taylor found a number of distant relatives (living and "distant" i.e. Australia, Tasmania and England) who he didn't know about. So, All an decided to show them what it was like here. He created a web page of Lighthouse Park, and the Tall Ships visiting Steveston in 2002. When Allan was about to remove the pages, he had second thoughts, and decided to do a search online to see what there was on what he had, and could find very little. So, their—Alan and wife, Sandra—"accidental" website on Greater Vancouver Parks was born.
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