CAMDEN, ME--(Marketwire - 03/23/11) - Maine Windjammer Cruises®, North America's first and oldest fleet of wind-powered sailing vessels for passengers, announced today that it will be celebrating its 75th season of authentic Maine sailing adventures According to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, which regulates Sellers of Travel in Florida, Windjammer Barefoot Cruises is no longer licensed to sell travel in the state of Florida -- effectively putting the kibosh on rumored Florida tourism entrepreneur Charles J. Kropke is planning to bring back freewheeling sail cruises through a new version of Windjammer Barefoot Cruises. Kropke has purchased the defunct company’s three-masted Mandalay and hopes to operate his first MORE: Photos of a Mary Day trip | Other cruises With no set schedule, no cell phone signal, no noisy motors, what better way to relax than on a Maine windjammer? On this sunny day in early August, the Mary Day sailed out onto picturesque Penobscot Bay. Maximum 35 guests. September 8: “Sail Away” while learning the history of the Chesapeake Bay aboard the 74-foot Schooner Woodwind: Enjoy a historically guided 2 hour sunset sailing cruise. Cruises depart from the Annapolis Marriott Waterfront Hotel It’s foggy when we wake up after our first night onboard the Victory Chimes, a historic, three-masted schooner, and foggy still as we sail out of Rockland Harbor, Maine, passed the Rockland Lighthouse and into the Penobscot Bay. The crew at the bow sound .
ABOARD THE POLYNESIA — The sails flap weakly as they climb the four huge masts. Ride of the Valkyrie blares from the speakers as a cannon booms, then fires again. This undated photo provided by Windjammer Barefoot Cruises shows the ship Polynesia sailing As I walked across the runway (yes walked) and up to the plane at Boston's Logan Airport, the steward warned me to watch my head. Watch my head? I'm barely five feet tall - so much for my fleeting thought that the seventh row must be near the front of the NEW HAVEN >> Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful ship destined to leave the Elm City sometime this spring to spend the rest of its sailing days in Maine. The Quinnipiack, New Haven’s storied educational vessel, is in the NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A cruise company in Bar Harbor, Maine, is purchasing a schooner that has been used as an educational vessel in New Haven, Connecticut. The Quinnipiack is being sold to Downeast Windjammer Cruises, which plans to bring the schooner .
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