Your responses prompt another post about Peking. Be sure to see the slide show at link at the end of this post, which features a barque with similar lines but older.
Concentration etches the face of the tug captain.
Attention holds the deckhand ready at the h-bitt.
Excitement shows in riding crew.
Designated line handler awaits commands.
Crew at stern use monkeyfist to get dockline onto the pier so that . . .
pier crew can get line onto the bollard.
Wouldn’t it be grand to be able to do this each year? Thanks to Mage, I learned about Star of India ex-Euterpe. Check out this inspiring slide show. San Diego, bravo.
For more of a clip of Peking under sail in 1929, see this clip thanks to Sea Fever’s Peter Mello.
Links to two other flying P’s here and here. And another.
Last four fotos here credited to Elizabeth.
tugster: a waterblog 
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January 19, 2008 at 11:04 am
mageb
Thank you both for these inspiring images. I’m sitting here smiling and grinning.
January 19, 2008 at 11:44 pm
Billy Sabatini
Yes I can name all the sails but from what my friend and I can tell there were only 31 sails. Unless there is a mizzen staysail, main staysail, fore staysail, any royal staysails or some kind of flying jib that we haven’t seen in any pictures.
1. jib topsail
2. outer jib
3. inner jib
4. fore topmast staysail
5. foresail
6. lower fore topsail
7. upper fore topsail
8. lower fore t’gallant
9. upper fore t’gallant
10. fore royal
11. main topmast staysail
12. main t’gallant staysail
13. mainsail
14. lower main topsail
15. upper main topsail
16. lower main t’gallant
17. upper main t’gallant
18. main royal
19. mizzen topmast staysail
20. mizzen t’gallant staysail
21. mizzensail or crossjack
22. lower mizzen topsail
23. upper mizzen topsail
24. lower mizzen t’gallant
25. upper mizzen t’gallant
26. mizzen royal
27. jigger staysail
28. jigger topmast staysail
29. lower spanker
30. upper spanker
31. jigger gaff topsail
32. The only idea we can come up with is that there could have been main royal staysail to make 32.
Does anyone else have any ideas?
June 10, 2008 at 5:32 am
ChrisJBrady
Great photos. Interested to learn more of the proposed sale of Peking to Germany?