Age Of Sail

Like most periodic eras the definition is inexact but close enough to serve as a general description. As a result, cargo and supplies could reach a foreign port in half the time it took a sailing ship. The Golden Age of Sail is generally agreed to be the period in the 19th century when the efficiency and use of commercial sailing vessels was at its peak and immediately before steamboats started to take trade away from sail.[citation needed] Some would say that the Golden Age of Sail relates specifically to the clipper ship era, while others put the Golden Age of Sail between 1850 and the early 1900s when sailing vessels reached their peak of size and complexity..