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Zarco belongs to the Portuguese Navy, and will participate in The Tall Ships Races 2016 for the first time. She and Polar sail in the region of the Iberian Peninsula, and the concept of use is weekend sailing during school time and holiday sailing for 4 or 5 weeks.

Pupu is the successor of Sea scout troop Puhurin Pojat’s previous vessel Jotunheim. The boat was acquired in 2023 and provides sea scouts maritime experiences in the Finnish Archipelago and on longer sailing trips all around the Baltic Sea. 

Prolific was built in 2005, as a tribute to the herring-fishing vessels in operation along the Norwegian coast during the 19th century. The ship is a hybrid of historic design and modern-day construction. Most recently, she has been used for sail training with young people in Norway. Ocean Youth Trust South purchased Prolific in 2015 […]

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 […]

Built as a Fifie herring drifter in Lerwick, Shetland in 1900, the Swan was one of the vast fleet of wooden vessels fidhing for herring in the early 20th century.  Fitted with an engine in 1935, the Swan continued to drift net for herring during the summer months and fish for white fish in the […]

Ryvingen is a pilot boat built in 1918 for sail and engine. She was pilot boat number 4, and this is why she has the number 4 in her mainsail together with a red vertical stripe. The red stripe is the symbol for a pilot boat, so she can be easily recognized. She got her […]

Having begun life as a cargo ship transporting sugar from the West Indies as well as cocoa and coffee from Brazil and French Guiana to Nantes in France, the tall ship Belem is now over 120 years old, with a history that also includes becoming a private yacht for Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster […]

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 […]

The Caravel ‘Vera Cruz’, the third built by APORVELA on the original Project of the Shipwright Alm Rogerio de Oliveira was aimed to substitute the previous Boa Esperanca which, during the twelve years of service on Sail Training for the trainees of APORVELA, sailed over 60,000 miles on the Atlantic and Mediterranean, visiting ports in […]

Fulton of Marstal is a 3-mast schooner constructed in 1915 by shipbuilder Christian Ludvig Johansen. Built to transport dried and salted cod from Newfoundland to the Mediterranean. The small Marstal schooners, like the schooner Fulton, were called sparrows because there were many of them and they were always on long voyages. Nowadays, the ship is […]

Sailing Vessel ORP ISKRA is one of a few Polish Navy training ships. The main purpose of the ship is to train cadets from Polish Naval Academy. The ship was built in Gdansk Shipyard. She was designed by Polish architect Zygmunt Choreń. Keel of the ship was laid down on 11 November 1981. ORP ISKRA […]

Palinuro was launched in 1934 at Nantes, France and christened The Commandant Louis Richard. She originally had three masts with fore and aft sails and plied her trade across the Atlantic Ocean between France and North America. She was put up for sale in 1950 and purchased by the Italian Navy. Radical rebuilding in the […]

Regina-Germania was built in 1980 in Hamburg, Germany. Her hull is made of steel and once the outside of the vessel was complete, the owner, Erich Herrman, and his family fitted out the interior taking four years to do so. She was completed and launched in 1984 and since 1991 has regularly taken part in […]