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Osprey is a Swedish-built Comfortina 42 owned by the British Kiel Yacht Club.She has taken part in the Tall Ships Races in 2009 and 2010.This year Osprey is sailing with a team which mainly comes from Sail Training Association Estonia. She will be racing fiercely in both races and will be leading the fleet into […]
Stella Polare was commissioned in 1964 and launched in September 1965. It was built as a training vessel for the cadets of the Italian Naval Academy at Livorno. It soon revealed itself to be an excellent racer, winning many trophies and participating in several Tall Ships Races.
The Sail Training Ship SØRLANDET is owned and administrated by a non-profit foundation. The objective of the ship’s sailing activities is to offer the general public an experience in traditional life on board a tall ship, as well as maintaining the ship by active use. SØRLANDET is open for charter cruises, participating in hired port […]
The present training ship Sagres was built in 1937 at the Blohm & Voss shipyards, in Hamburg. Her original name was Albert Leo Schlageter and she was the third of a series of four ships procured at the time by the German Navy (Kriegsmarine). The other three ships were the Gorch Fock (1933) – Tovarish […]
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.
She was built as a replica of the crab cutters traditional in Southern England. Her hull is based on the original design of the boats fishing the English Channel and the Atlantic. The Cornish Crabber is the smaller type of the well-known Falmouth Working Boat. “Betty” is one of the first replicas, with special emphasis […]
The “Gulden Leeuw” is a big, sturdy sailing ship reminiscent of the 30’s and with the deck layout of a classic yacht. This ship was built in 1937 on behalf of the Danish Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. The DANA was designed and built as an ocean-going ice class ship. During her period of service […]
Etoile and Belle Poule, these two schooners were constructed in 1932 by the Chantier Naval de Normandie, in Fecamp, for the French naval academy (Ecole Navale). They are identical and of the “Paimpolaise” type of fishing schooner which used to sail from the North coast of France to Iceland during the late 1800’s. The schooners […]
Bermudan sloop, Sarmata II often takes part in races. The yacht was built in 1991 and immediately enriched the fleet of the Navy Yacht Club “Kotwica”. Her seaworthiness allows her sailing even in the most difficult sea conditions. Many sailing enthusiasts have passed through our deck. The youngest ones and those for whom the age […]
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 […]
Navigator is a 16m Yawl built in Turku, Finland in 1947. She has participated in Tall Ships’ Races in 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000. Her crew consists mostly of boy scouts and girl guides from FiSSc (Finnish scout district) with about 5500 members.
The schooner HMSwS Gladan belongs to the Swedish Armed Forces and the main purpose of the ship is to help to train cadets. The normal operational areas of the ship are the Baltic Sea and approaches, the North Sea and around the British Isles. Sometimes the area is extended to the southern parts of Europe […]
Excelsior is a Lowestoft Smack which was built in 1921 to fish in the North Sea in all weathers as one of a fleet of 300 similar vessels. She was fully restored in 1989 to maintain her tough construction and is now a regular competitor in major maritime events, having taken part in the Cutty […]
Maybe, launched in 1933, was designed for round the world cruising and built by De Vries Lentsch, Amsterdam for Jan Jacob van Rietschoten. She was hidden during the Second World War and afterwards she underwent a complete refit with a new rig. Maybe took part in the first Tall Ships Race in 1956.She sailed mainly […]
Rona II, an Oyster 68, is one of three vessels operated by the Rona Sailing Project. Rona II was built in 1991 and since then has become one of the hardest working and most resilient Oyster yachts in the world. She has taken more than 7,200 young people sailing, has completed 21 international and three […]