What is the definition of a tall ship?

Question

Is a schooner classed as a tall ship?

Answer 1

any ship that's too tall to go under a draw bridge without the draw bridge being open

Answer 2

A tall ship is a large traditionally rigged sailing vessel. Popular modern tall ship rigs include topsail schooners, brigantines, brigs and barques.

Traditional rigging may include square rigs and gaff rigs, with separate topmasts and topsails. It is generally more complex than modern rigging, which utilizes newer materials such as aluminum and steel to construct taller, lightweight masts with fewer, more versatile sails.

The term tall ship has come into widespread use in the mid-20th century with the advent of The Tall Ships' Races.

The phrase tall ship was coined to describe the participating ships. Participating vessels are manned by a largely cadet or trainee crew who are partaking in sail training, 50 percent of which must be aged between 15 and 25 and do not need any previous experience. Thus, tall ship does not describe a specific type of sailing vessel, but rather a monohull sailing vessel of at least 9.4 metres that is conducting sail training and education under sail voyages. Participating ships range from yachts to the large square-rigged sail training ships run by charities, schools and navies of many countries.

Answer 3

capt billy has the info, a 'schooner' probably could be classified as a tall ship, depending upon its rigging.

Answer 4

anything bigger that cant be called a sailboat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_ship

Answer 5

A "ship" by traditional definition is " A square rigged 3 masted vessel"  Schooners are not square rigged , so to a seaman the answer is No.  That definition is from the days of sail, and may not be quite in line with modern thinking.