Here we are
We are singing shanties, and sometimes forebitters.
We are six shanty singers and we are singing a capella, without any instrumental accompaniment, for we want to keep something of the sound to be heard at former times aboard.
We don’t sing ‘nice’ in common manner and our voices are more mediocre but with clean intonation. Rather we try to perform the drive of the work the special shanty was made for, and by that way we try to maintain and present a bit of the timbre of the great days of sailing.
At stage we will point out the source of the shanty we are going to sing, and the work it was created for, and when we declare the words there shall be known some of the living space of ancient time sailors
We use to sing in international shanty festivals home and abroad or at special maritime events.
Crossjack is the name of a small fore-and-aft sail at the mizzen mast still standing when the spanker was already taken away due to hard weather. They used it for to hold the course. And that is what we want to do too, even in rough weather.