Relive The Tall Ships Races 2025
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Pogoria was built in 1980 for the Iron Shackle Fraternity – a marine educational project which was conceived and founded by Captain Adam Jasser in 1971. The project was later sponsored by the Polish National Television, the TV Magazine “Flying Dutchman”. The current owner and operator of Pogoria is Pomeranian Sailing Association with seat at […]
The James Cook is named after Captain James Cook, RN, FRS, probably one of the greatest sailors, explorers and navigators ever to go to sea, and our boat spends much of her time sailing the North Sea waters where the young Cook learned his sailing skills. A regular in The Tall and Small Ships’ Races […]
Levitha is the first of a series of 5 sailing vessels type Azzuro 53. Built in 2007, in aluminium, on behalf of Bertrand Cudennec, founder of the sailmaker “Incidence”, she is a very performing cruise vessel. Levitha is named after a Greek Island where she once had a very memorable port of call! After having […]
Le Français is a majestic three-masted barque, built in 1948 in Denmark under the name Kaskelot for the Royal Greenland Trading Company. She originally served as a freighter in the cold waters of the North Atlantic (sailing as far as Greenland, among other destinations). She then took part as a film sailing vessel in the […]
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 […]
The schooner HMSwS Falken 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 […]
Hosanna, a Centurion 47′ built in Wauquiez shipyard was launched in Saint-Martin in 1990. With a bespoke design for Mr Labouret, back then Wauquiez board member, she was used as a prototype model for the famous Centurion 49′. Mr. Labouret sailed on her in the Caribbean from 1990 to 1994 as she was part of […]
Belle Poule and Etoile, 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 are […]