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Polar was formerly called Anne Linde and is a replica of America, the first winner of the America’s Cup. It was built in Holland in 1977 and used for charter cruises in the Mediterranean until 1982. In 1983, it was bought by the organisation Windjammer fur Hamburg and delivered to the Portuguese Navy in exchange […]
INS Sudarshini is a sail training ship built by Goa Shipyard Ltd for the Indian Navy. The ship is a follow on class of INS Tarangini which was commissioned in 1997. "Sudarshini" means "beautiful lady Sundari" after the younger half-sister of Buddha. The ship has been designed by Colin Mudie. Sudarshini is a three-masted barque. It […]
LOA was built as a three-masted schooner in Svendborg, Denmark in 1922 – and restored as a barquentine in Aalborg, Denmark 2004-09. The vessel is owned by the Danish sail training trust, Tall Ship Aalborg Fonden. The home port is Aalborg, host of the Tall Ships’ Races in 1999, 2004, 2010, and again in 2015. LOA […]
St.Iv is the longest serving sail training vessel in Estonia and has participated in The Tall Ships Races since 1993. In the following years, several podium places were brought home from regattas held in the North Sea, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Baltic Sea. St. Iv, is an ocean-class yacht Conrad 1200 GT, built for […]
B.A.P. Unión is the first sail training ship of the Peruvian Navy. It acts as a training vessel for officers and naval cadets and as a sailing ambassador, promoting Peru in its various voyages around the world. It was launched in 2015 after a three year building project that took place in Spain. In 2017, […]
Grossherzogin Elisabeth was built in 1909 as a trading schooner called San Antonio. In 1936, their rig was dismantled and her diesel engine was replaced with a stronger one. She then traded as a motor coaster until 1971 when she was sold to German owners who refitted the rig and reconstructed her to the sail […]
Italia is the ex Swan Fan Makkum and was based on a design that made history in the 19th century when Brigantines were largely in use because of their outstanding sailing qualities and is the biggest in the world. The Brigantine, with her enormous mainsail on the hind mast was incredibly agile and the combination […]
Construction of Westvind started in March 1913. Shipwright Anders Mattsson built her as a gaff ketch in Kungsviken on the isle Orust on the Swedish west coast. The order came from the fishing team Vestvind of Kalvsund in the Gothenburg northern archipelago. At delivery in 1914, she was equipped with a 20 hk Ideal engine, […]
After the Cutty Sark Tall Ships’ Races in 1990, a group of liaison officers from La Coruna, who were all sailors, were so taken with the philosophy of the races and the sail training experience they decided to charter a boat and race themselves. This group ran the Liaison Office when the Cutty Sark Tall […]
Roald Amundsen was built in 1952 in Roblau/Elbe as a NVA tank logger for the former GDR’s National People’s Army. In 1992, the boat builder Detlev L ll and his friends from the society `Learn to Live on Sailing Ships` turned her into a brig as part of a programme against unemployment. Roald Amundsen made […]
Yacht Farurej is a mahogany yawl built in 1980 in Joseph Conrad’s Shipyard in Gdańsk for the Yacht Club ATOL in Warsaw, which became a branch of a Polish Navy Yacht Club. Farurej is named after Jan Farurej from Grabowo, Sulima coat of arms – famous 15th century knight, Spisz’s starost, Cracow’s stolnik, brother of Zawisza […]
The design and build of Tunas Samudera was jointly funded by the British and Malaysian governments. She was handed over to the Malaysian Navy in 1989 in a joint ceremony by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and His Majesty Yan Di-Pertuan Agong. The ship is operated as a sail training vessel by the Royal Malaysian […]