Travel writer Heidi Sarna spent several days aboard the cruise industry's newest sail-powered vessel, Star Clipper's Royal Clipper. Her report follows: fter a week on the new, 228-passenger Royal ...

A c 1835 lithograph of the clipper ship Challenger. Photo: Library of Congress “Clipper ships were not a specific design, they were a state of mind,” says John Lienhard, an engineer from the ...

CANNES, France — As a waning sun sets the red-tile rooftops aglow on shore, Capt. Gerhard Lickfett, master aboard the five-masted square-rigged Royal Clipper, shouts, “Raise the sails!&… ...