Replica ships are amazing. We came across a copy of the Half Moon in the middle of
Long Island Sound one afternoon. The French are working on a similar idea: rebuilding the frigate that carried Lafayette when he came over to help
Washington during the revolution. They're
rigging it now, and are planning to sail to Boston in 2015, and then down the coast to Yorktown, VA, where the original vessel was involved in the blockade that led Corwnallis to surrender.
L'Hermione, La Frégate de la liberté - Introduction