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Learning The Ropes, Student members of the Toronto Brigantine program raise the masts on the Playfair, a square-rigged sailing vessel, in preparation (...)
Learning The Ropes, Student members of the Toronto Brigantine program raise the masts on the Playfair, a square-rigged sailing vessel, in preparation (...)

Learning The Ropes, Student members of the Toronto Brigantine program raise the masts on the Playfair, a square-rigged sailing vessel, in preparation (...)

Date4/19/1992
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Original Toronto Star caption: Learning The Ropes; Student members of the Toronto Brigantine program raise the masts on the Playfair; a square-rigged sailing vessel; in preparation for a summer of Great Laks cruising. The program's on-the-water courses; in which teenagers learn to sail the ship; begin June 22.
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Brigantine Playfair
Brigantine Playfair
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7/4/1980
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