Editing Tall ship (section)

==History==
[[File:Kruzenshterns för.jpg|thumb|right|The tall ship [[Kruzenshtern (ship)|''Kruzenshtern'']]]]
[[File:Portsmouthsunset.jpg|thumb|More than 36 tall ships participated in the 200th anniversary of the [[Battle of Trafalgar]] in Portsmouth, part of the fleet of 167 naval, merchant and tall ships from 36 countries]]

Traditional rigging may include [[square rig]]s and [[gaff rig]]s, usually with separate [[Mast (sailing)|topmasts]] and [[topsail]]s. It is generally more complex than modern rigging, which utilizes newer materials such as [[aluminum]] and [[steel]] to construct taller, lightweight masts with fewer, more versatile sails. Most smaller, modern vessels use the [[Bermuda rig]]. 

Author and [[master mariner]] [[Joseph Conrad]] (who spent 1874 to 1894 at sea in tall ships and was quite particular about naval terminology) used the term "tall ship" in his works;<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KPy-DwAAQBAJ&q=%22Joseph+Conrad%22+%22Tall+ship%22&pg=PT3001|title=Selected works of Joseph Conrad|last=Conrad|first=Joseph|date=2019-11-20|publisher=Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing|language=en}}</ref> for example, in ''The Mirror of the Sea'' in 1906.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MdfPAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Joseph+Conrad%22+%22Tall+ship%22+%22The+Mirror+of+the+Sea%22&pg=PA56|title=The Mirror of the Sea|last=Conrad|first=Joseph|publisher=Harper & Brothers|year=1906|pages=56|isbn=9781774415207 }}</ref>  

[[Henry David Thoreau]] also references the term "tall ship" in his first work, ''[[A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers]]'', quoting "Down out at its mouth, the dark inky main blending with the blue above. [[Plum Island (Massachusetts)|Plum Island]], its sand ridges scolloping along the horizon like the sea-serpent, and the distant outline broken by many a tall ship, leaning, still, against the sky." He does not cite this quotation, but the work was written in 1849.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/4232/pg4232.html|title=A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers|last=Thoreau|first=Henry David|website=www.gutenberg.org|access-date=9 May 2018}}</ref>

While [[Sail Training International]] (STI) has extended the definition of ''tall ship'' for the purpose of its races to embrace any sailing vessel with more than {{convert|30|ft|m|2|abbr=on|lk=}} [[waterline length]] and on which at least half the people on board are aged 15 to 25.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://sailtraininginternational.org/sailtraining/definition-of-a-tall-ship/|title=Definition of a tall ship|website=Sail On Board|language=en|access-date=2020-01-21}}</ref>