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Built in Marstal, Denmark in 1908, Argus worked as a cargo ship in Baltic and Scandinavian waters for Capt. Lars Anker Nielsen for 22 years before being sold to Tucker Thompson. After sailing around the world, Thompson brought the boat to Mexico, where he and his family made their way north through Baja, Calif., San […]

Duet is a wooden gaff rigged yawl. She was built on the River Itchen, Southampton in 1912 and originally called Gaviota. A famous explorer Augustine Courtauld bought her in the 1930’s and renamed her Duet. When he died in 1959, ownership of Duet passed to Augustines son, the Revd Christopher Courtauld who together with Christopher […]

Earl of Pembroke is one of very few large wooden sailing vessels still in operation. Built in 1945 in Sweden she was constructed using those quickly disappearing techniques and skills that we are trying to preserve. No heavy machinery or computers were involved in the making of this beautiful vessel. Today she is rigged as […]

S/y Anya was built in Turku, Finland, and it was launched in 1998. The first long sailing tour took the yacht via United Kingdom to Canarian Islands and from there to Caribbean and further to Venezuela along Rio Orinoco. On the way there, Anya participated in ARC-99 competition being the second to cross the line […]

Loyal is a ketch which was built in Hardanger, Norway, in 1877 for fishing. It took around 400m of timber to build Loyal. The building time was one year with approximately 15 craftsmen at work. This resulted in a solid self-supporting construction, an elegant and smooth hull, together with firm rigging. To preserve the ship, […]

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 […]

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 […]

LIV is one of the first two vessels ordered by the Norwegian Rescue Society (founded in 1891). She was built in 1893 by Thor Jensen in Porsgrunn, based on Colin Archer’s modified drawings from Chr. L. Stephansen who won the design competition for a sailing rescue vessel. LIV did her service in Northern Norway from […]

Jadran is a sailing school ship built for the Yugoslav Navy.  Her name means "Adriatic", and most of the ship’s training voyages are undertaken in the Mediterranean.  She was commandeered during World War II by Italy and sailed as MARCO POLO.  She was then used as a floating bridge in one of the canals in […]

The Adornate is an authentic schooner with an elegant and imposing design, built in 1961 as a fishing boat and transformed into a schooner in 1997.  In 2006 the ship was refurnished.  It is specially designed for luxury and seaborne adventure lovers.  In its time the ship ha sailed the entire Mediterranean Sea from the […]