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Rus is a wooden boat which first took part in the Cutty Sark Tall Ships’ Races in 1988 and led the Parade of Sail in St. Petersburg in 1996. This year, Rus will race with an international crew onboard for the first time, but her crew is always very young, friendly and optimistic. She has […]

The Indian Navy sail training ship Tarangini (her name comes from the Hindi word ‘Tarang’ meaning waves) is a three-masted steel barque, designed by Colin Mudie and built at Goa Shipyard Limited, Vasco da Gama, Goa, India, in 1996/7. Tarangini is a near sister to STS Lord Nelson with the same hull and rig though […]

The Dutch sailing vessel Wylde Swan is a ship built for speed. She started life as a motor vessel in the 1920’s and brought fresh herring from the fishing grounds to markets ashore. Her slender hull is reminiscent of the large schooner yachts of the 1900 era. Wylde Swan is the largest two-mast topsail schooner […]

Built by hand in Spain between 1980 and 1984, ATYLA is one of the very few handmade wooden-hulled Tall Ships in the world that is still in operation. “ATYLA International Training Ship Foundation” is a not-for-profit organisation registered in Spain. The ship is still owned and operated by the same family who built her over […]

Kruzenshtern is the second largest sailing ship in the world behind another Russian ship, Sedov. Originally called Padua, she was built in Germany in the 1920’s as one of five clipper ships for the “Flying P Line” which traded in the Atlantic, Indian Ocean and Pacific. The five ships’ names all began with “P” and […]

The Norwegian “jakt” of 1889, among the world’s oldest wooden vessels, is still sailing. After a long period as a sailing- and motorfreighter she was lovingly rebuilt by Hans van de Vooren. Under the name "Anna Kristina" she has sailed the seas for many years, from Spitsbergen in the north to Tasmania in the south. […]

Estonian Maritime Academy is one of the schools of Tallinn University of Technology and it is the only educational institution in Estonia that offers professional higher education and Master’s level education in the maritime field. We are located in the capital Tallinn but also have two centres in Saaremaa.

Khersones is one of six sisterships built at the Gdansk shipyard in Poland in the 1980s. Of the others, the Russian, Mir, and the Polish, Dar Mlodziezy, are regular competitors in the Cutty Sark Tall Ships’ Races. Since 1991, the Russian vessel Khersones, has been used as a sail training ship for young people.

SY Bies is a DIY-built sea yacht that sails the Baltic and the North Sea. Its name comes from the pre-Slavonic demon known as Bies. The hull was built at the beginning of the 1970s in the industrial equipment facilities (ZUP) in Nysa before being finally equipped and fitted out at the yacht yard in […]

Skreien is a small sailing cargo vessel built in Kristiansund (North-West Norway) in 1909 for transporting fish. In the winter she brought salted cod from the North of Norway to Kristiansund. Here it was dried and shipped to Portugal, Spain and Brazil as “Bacalao”. After 65 years in shipping, a major restoration work was initiated […]

The Alexa is a type of a Danish Haikutter. This particular hull shape was built around 1900 to 1940 in Denmark with over 9,000 pieces. She belongs with the year of construction 1938 rather to the last representatives of this kind and is solid boatbuilding work: On the continuous beech keel one put oak frames, […]

The SSV Oliver Hazard Perry is the newest addition to America’s Tall Ship fleet, purpose-built for training and education to the highest modern safety standards. She is the first ocean-going full-rigged ship to be built in the US in more than 100 years, equipped with a 130-foot rig, 20 sails, and six miles of rigging! […]

The yacht Amur was built in 1971 in Leningrad (Saint-Petersburg). Amur took prizes in the Baltic Sea Cup Regatta, which was held in Soviet Union and Russian Federation in 1970s-1990s, more often than any other yacht. During 2009-2011 the yacht was overhauled. Nowadays, Amur is among the leaders according to "Association of Classis Wooden Yachts". […]

“Peter von Danzig” is a 55ft sloop designed by Georg Nissen and built by Thyssen Nordseewerke in Emden, Germany. He (since 1936 the club refers to his flagship in the male form) is owned and operated by the Akademischer Segler Verein in Kiel (ASV), a student run sailing club affiliated with Kiel University. The mission […]