The final album from The Boarding Party, the Washington-area shanty group of Jonathan Eberhart, Tom McHenry, K.C. King, Dave Diamond, and Bob Hitchcock. Its songs reach from the American Civil War to the Great Depression and well beyond the English-speaking world, including the Bangladeshi “Oray Sujon Naiya”. “Solar Privateer”, written by Eberhart, a science journalist, imagines the solar sail as a new kind of windjammer. The record is dedicated to him, as he died shortly before its release.

Track list:

  1. Ten Stone
  2. Heave ‘Er Up and Bust ‘Er
  3. Tanqueray Martini-O
  4. Goodbye Old Ship of Mine
  5. Song for the Challenger’s Crew
  6. Rosie
  7. Sheep on the Deep
  8. Drifting Too Far from the Shore
  9. Ward Line
  10. Atlantic Cable Song
  11. Down the C & O
  12. 100 Years on the Eastern Shore
  13. Oray Sujon Naiya
  14. Rolling Down to Old Maui
  15. Solar Privateer
  16. Farewell to Grog
  17. Last Cigar