Making history at The SCF Black Sea Tall Ships Regatta 2014
History was made this week when the largest sail training ship in the world, Class A Tall Ship Sedov (Russia) confirmed that she would be racing in The SCF Black Sea Tall Ships Regatta 2014 this spring.
Sedov will be joining three other Russian Class A ships in the race – Mir, Kruzenshtern and Nadezhda – and they will all sail and race against each other for the first time. They join over 20 other vessels in the international fleet of this spectacular event.
The event and race dates are:
Varna, Bulgaria Wednesday 30 April Saturday 3 May
Race 1
Novorossiysk, Russia Friday 9 – Monday 12 May
Cruise-in-Company
Sochi, Russia Wednesday 14 – Sunday 18 May
Race 2
Constanta, Romania Saturday 24 – Tuesday 27 May
Organised by Sail Training International, The SCF Black Sea Tall Ships Regatta is the first of three Tall Ship race events being held this year.
This summer The Tall Ship Races in the North Sea will see up to 100 international Tall Ships visiting The Netherlands, Norway and Denmark. And late August, early September up to 50 international Tall Ships will be taking part in the Falmouth – Royal Greenwich Tall Ships Regatta.
Peter Newell, Race Director, Sail Training International said, äóìWe are delighted to confirm that Sedov is taking part in this special event. She’ the longest and highest sail training ship in the world and it is particularly special that she will be sailing with her family of famous Russian sail training Tall Ships.äó
The SCF Black Sea Tall Ships Regatta, is sponsored by Sovcomflot – Russia’ biggest shipping company.
About Sedov
The four masted sail training barque of the University of Murmansk, Sedov, is the vessel on which the young cadets from university train to become officers, mechanics and radio specialists.
Sedov can accommodate up to 320 people on board, 75 of which are crew members. The sail training takes place during journeys of up to four months along European coasts and takes advantage of cultural and economic exchanges with the ports.
Launched in Kiel in 1921 at the shipbuilding yard Krupp, Sedov (then named Magdalene Vinnen) with an auxiliary diesel engine with some 128hp, was exclusively dedicated to the transport of goods.
In 1936, Magdalene Vinnen was sold to Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen and was renamed Kommodore Johnsen. She carried out numerous circumnavigations, transporting wheat, coal and cereals. The Second World War put an end to these journeys as an ocean-going vessel, but she continued to train cadets in the Baltic where her journeys lasted up to six weeks. She came under Russian state ownership after the surrender of Germany.
She was renamed Sedov after the polar explorer Georgij Sedov who died during an investigation in the Arctic in 1914. Sedov navigated as an oceanographical vessel until 1966, she was then put in reserve to Kronstadt and she reappeared in the 1970′.
Between the 1970′ and 1981 various works were carried out which cos
