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Sailing's strenuous on a vessel the size of the 60 foot square-rigged, two-masted brigantine, the Playfair especially when it's time to trim the sails(...)
Sailing's strenuous on a vessel the size of the 60 foot square-rigged, two-masted brigantine, the Playfair especially when it's time to trim the sails(...)

Sailing's strenuous on a vessel the size of the 60 foot square-rigged, two-masted brigantine, the Playfair especially when it's time to trim the sails(...)

Date8/4/1977
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Original Toronto Star caption: Sailing's strenuous on a vessel the size of the 60 foot square-rigged; two-masted brigantine; the Playfair especially when it's time to trim the sails. Its crew of 22 girls working on one of its 15 two-week cruises this season included 15-year-old Tricia Martin; in the foreground; and 16-yer-old Barb Booth; heaving on a line.
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Lake Ontario beauty sails past, Under full sail, the 60-foot brigantine Playfair passes Toronto Island's Western Gap with 25 students aboard. The twin(...)
Lake Ontario beauty sails past, Under full sail, the 60-foot brigantine Playfair passes Toronto Island's Western Gap with 25 students aboard. The twin(...)
6/10/1975
A Sailing vessel, especially if it is, as here, a square-rigged wind-jammer, will always be preferred to steam craft by lovers of the picturesque. The(...)
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Reminder of the days of sail, Into Toronto harbor sails 60-foot brigantine St
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8/30/1962
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 (...)
4/19/1992
Sailing majestically from Toronto Harbor, the brigantine Pathfinder sets out for a cruise on Lake Ontario, carrying most of its 22,000 square yards of sail. She cost $150,000 seven years ago
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Setting sail for spring, Taking a spring flier, Dean Pawell swings in the breeze as he prepares the brigantine Pathfinder for a new sailing season. Pa(...)
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4/8/1975
Watch out, It looked like a near thing but the brigantine Pathfinder (left) was only changing course, not attempting to ram the Playfair. The two vess(...)
Watch out, It looked like a near thing but the brigantine Pathfinder (left) was only changing course, not attempting to ram the Playfair. The two vess(...)
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The schooner Bluenose II sails into Toronto yesterday on its third visit to Lake Ontario
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Crowds line Harborfront as the Christian Radich, a 238-foot windjammer from Norway, sails into Toronto
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