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Built in 1934 in Les Sables-d’Olonne for a skipper from Groix, Biche fished for tuna until 1956 before sailing under the Belgian and English flags. In 1992, it was bought by the Port Museum of Douarnenez, then restored by our association “Les Amis du Biche”. Today, Biche is sailing again, a living witness to Breton […]

THALASSA was originally built in 1980 in Harlingen, Holland, but after she sank in 1985 was bought by Arnold Hilkema and Jacob Dan who totally rebuilt and refitted her. She was relaunched in 1995. 2004 was the first year she competed in The Tall Ships Races.

MilPat is a wooden langoustine boat, built in Brittany in 1962. Initially used for fishing, she was abandoned for a few years and then adopted in Fécamp by the Fécamp Vieux Gréements – AFDAM association, which restores sailing vessels.  Now equipped for pleasure boating, she sails mainly in Norman, Breton and British waters for youth […]

TORNADO II was built in 2013 by Delphia Yachts in Olecko, Poland. This brave and sea worthy yacht was designed by the legendary Polish designer Andrzej Skrzat as a Delphia 47. Tornado II was welcomed in our Sailing Training Center as the last yacht in a fleet of eleven class A yachts which are sailing under […]

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! […]

Corsaro II is a Sparkman and Stephens designed yacht which is used for sail training third year students of the Italian Naval Academy. Each year she takes sixty third year students to sea, racing during the summer in prestigious European races and events. Racing on Corsaro II enables cadets to gain closer contact with the […]

The ‘Oosterschelde’ is one of the very few truly historical ships left in the world. She was built in the Netherlands in 1917 at the order of the Rotterdam shipping company HAAS and is the last remaining representative of the large fleet of schooners that sailed under the Dutch flag at the beginning of the […]

Shabab Oman is now a barquentine, but was launched in 1971 as a topsail schooner called Captain Scott, which operated out of Scotland for the Dulverton Trust. The Trust ran outward bound courses for young people lasting 25 days during which time they would be dropped ashore for mountain expeditions and climbing. Captain Scott was […]

S/y Henrika is a sea scout training vessel owned and operated by a Finnish sea scout troop “Kupittaan Henrikinpojat ry”. Her home port is Turku in South-Western Finland. Henrika has taken part in Tall Ships’ Races in Baltic Sea Region since 1996. The vessel and the whole scout troop are operated entirely on voluntary basis.