Windjammers was the description given to the huge square-rigged sailing vessels that were valiantly challenging the coming of steam on world trade routes. These monsters, the steamship crews stated. were far too clumsy to sail neatly into the wind but had to be jammed into it. In truth, in their 50 years of useful life, the windjammers expressed the consummate majesty of sail and the climax of centuries of glorious evolution. This is their story.