Henry Barkhausen: A Great Lakes mariner remembers

摘要

On a midsummer's evening in 1937, the 147'three-masted schooner J.T. WING-the last commercial wooden sailing ship on the Great Lakes-pointed up Green Bay under a following breeze. Climbing aloft, Henry Barkhausen reset the main topsail as the schooner jibed, spreading her wings in the waning dusk. A volunteer hand, 22-year-old Barkhausen had boarded the schooner at the Northern Paper Mill Docks in Green Bay, Wisconsin, eager to taste life under working sail.