Mumpsimus⚓️🇵🇹

Astros, right or wrong. Errare humanum est, persevere diabolicum

[Mumpsimus⚓️🇵🇹 @WattsBack]

Me: what’s a group of crows?
Son: a murder

Me: a group of geese?
Son: a gaggle

Me: a group of lawyers?
Son: trouble

[Elena Postigo @PostigoElena]

Muy buenos días y que gane el mejor. ¡Vamos, España! 🇪🇸
@museodelprado 😉

[RedditCFB @RedditCFB]

Guaranteed rematches all around.

[Mumpsimus⚓️🇵🇹 @WattsBack]

I thought the graphics were off the scale at 19 and dammit I still do.

Also, I still suck at the puzzles. My brother was always better at that sort of thing.

[Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON* @EsotericCD]

It's impossible for people in 2026 to realize how badly this stupid click-and-solve puzzle game one-shotted an entire generation of boomers (and their Gen X kids) in 1993.

[Mumpsimus⚓️🇵🇹 @WattsBack]

The Texas-based post we didn't know we needed.

[RedditCFB @RedditCFB]

Spain is the last of the 6 flags standing over Texas.

[Mumpsimus⚓️🇵🇹 @WattsBack]

@Bricktop_NAFO

[Mumpsimus⚓️🇵🇹 @WattsBack]

@Boydesian I truly wish this sort of thing would happen more often. Kagan is a class act.

[Viking History @Vikinghistory]

Odysseus sails home in a Viking ship.

The vessel in Nolan’s Odyssey is Draken Harald Hårfagre, the largest Viking ship built in modern times. Built in Haugesund, Norway. Named after Harald Fairhair, our first king.

The Odyssey is set around 1200 BC. Ships like this appeared around 800 AD. The Viking Age is closer to us today than to Odysseus.

Homer’s ships were black, low, open galleys, light enough to be dragged onto the beach at night. Not a 35-meter dragon ship built for the North Atlantic.

A sailing reconstruction of a Mycenaean warship already exists: the Argo, 50 oars, built in Volos, Greece. Nolan filmed in Greece. He still picked the Viking ship.

This week Draken sails down the Norwegian coast to the Oslo premiere. She will be the most authentic thing on screen. She is 2,000 years off.

[Mumpsimus⚓️🇵🇹 @WattsBack]

@aussiedoc_ @TheStingisBack One of his very best. I love that movie.

[The Ways of A Gentleman @Gentleman_Ways]

“A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.”

-Rudyard Kipling

[Gigi A @gigi_nyc]

The German Navy's tall ship Gorch Fock, and the Italian Navy training ship Amerigo Vespucci, sail through New York Harbor during the #Sail4th250 Parade of Sail last week in celebration of America's 250th anniversary.

[Greg Cello @gregcello]

no, you're not seeing things. Those are indeed the bold red crosses of the Order of Christ on the Portuguese ship Sagres.

[Hernán Cortés @HernnCortes]

Hala, chatos, hasta otra

[Mumpsimus⚓️🇵🇹 @WattsBack]

@RearadmiralBob @HiddenHistoryYT My dad was on the first ship to render aid. She had a rough go of it.

[Mumpsimus⚓️🇵🇹 @WattsBack]

@HiddenHistoryYT HMS Victory under Nelson

[Mumpsimus⚓️🇵🇹 @WattsBack]

My head is for Eagle but my heart is with Sagres!

[USCG Atlantic Area @USCGLANTAREA]

And they're off!
The Five Sisters Race is underway. USCGC Eagle, FGS Gorch Fock, NRP Sagres, and NMS Mircea set sail from New York this morning, Boston bound on the final leg of #Sail250. #FiveSistersRace

[igluemodels @igluemodels]

Over 1000 people are racing from New York City to Boston tomorrow. And nobody is talking about it.

The Five Sisters Cup will feature 4/5 tall ships designed to a common specification by Blohm & Voss in Hamburg, Germany. Each barque has 3 masts, and a crew over 250.

Gorch Fock II 🇩🇪
Eagle 🇺🇸
Sagres 🇵🇹
Mircea 🇷🇴

The Gorch Fock I, Eagle, Sagres, and Mircea are 1930s contemporaries. The first three were purpose-built training vessels for Germany with Mircea built for Romania. After the war, the German vessels were redistributed as reparations.

Gorch Fock II was built as a replacement for Gorch Fock I in the 1950s. Unfortunately, Gorch Fock I is no longer seaworthy and currently resides in Stralsund as a museum.

The last time all these ships saw one another was for the 🇺🇸 Bicentennial in 1976.

Gorch Fock II claimed the Five Sisters Cup then, but who will claim it in the days ahead?

[Mumpsimus⚓️🇵🇹 @WattsBack]

@UpdatingOnRome

[Mumpsimus⚓️🇵🇹 @WattsBack]

@CaseyMattox_ Actually, what not a king. A far bigger deal.

[Mumpsimus⚓️🇵🇹 @WattsBack]

@ingelramdecoucy @MacleodFlorida She was a brilliant choice for the film because like surprise she was of the older generation of frigates before the trend of heavy frigates like Constitution came on.

[Mumpsimus⚓️🇵🇹 @WattsBack]

@ingelramdecoucy @MacleodFlorida She was built as a replica of HM S Rose in the 1970s and was on her last legs when she was bought for the movie and renovated. I love the San Diego maritime museum but they clearly don’t have the budget to keep her up. She needs a dedicated owner and a more defined mission.