THE CRUISE INSIDER

Cruising under sail is not a new thing. When the commercial leisure cruise phenomenon was born in the 1840’s, ocean shipping was in the midst of the great transition between wind and steam and many a historic leisure cruise took place on vessels that were at least partly wind powered. But by the 1880’s steamships had all but replaced sailing vessels for mainstream passenger transport and no one would dream of going on an unreliable, uncomfortable and archaic sailing vessel fo