From a visit to San Diego a few years ago, the replica of the schooner AMERICA sails past the US Navy aircraft carrier RONALD REAGAN (CVN-76) on a particularly typical southern California day. The beautiful sail boat has a bit of a bone in her teeth as she has 3 of her main sails up, (from the left) the mainsail, the foresail and the jumbo with the jib topsail up forward. That’s a lot of canvas!
The carrier, meanwhile, is 90,000+ tons of gray steel and nuclear power.
Former U.S. Naval Flight Officer, now retired from Gub’mint work living the life in the mountains of western North Carolina. Had my fill of watching the sausage made in DC in 2018.