Take a private or group cruise watch out for special events like a tour featuring the wines of Australia and New Zealand with Schooner Woodwind on a 74-foot wooden ship, and pitch in by helping raise the sails or steer the boat.
While early Antarctic explorers risked life and limb to reach this uncharted land by wooden ship and on foot, you can take the same trip by convenience of plane.
But the big daddy of this battle is the 110-foot U.S. Brig Niagara, which bills itself as the largest wooden square-rigger in the United States that still takes people sailing.
The Jan. 9 collapse in Queens didn't cause any life-threatening injuries, but three workers had to be extricated from beneath fallen machinery after the 170-foot-long boom fell and mowed down part of the building's wooden framework, according to officials and witnesses.