Relive The Tall Ships Races 2025
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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 […]
The Tall Ships Challenger Fleet yachts are 22 metre (72 foot) steel hulls built in 2000 and designed to race around the world ‘’the wrong way’’ (against prevailing wind and tide), so are exceptionally strong and seaworthy. There are four yachts in the Challenger fleet and they are operated by the Tall Ships Youth Trust. […]
This flag ship of the Finnish Sail Training fleet represents the centre of youth work combining adventure pursuits under sail. She first took part in the Tall Ships Races in the Baltic in 1992 and has entered several times since. The schooner “Helena” has proved herself to be a fast and seaworthy sailing boat by […]
Jolie Brise is the truly world famous, 24 metre, Gaff Rigged Pilot Cutter. Built in 1913, some of her many claims to fame include: three times overall winner of the Fastnet Race; daring rescue of the crew of the Adriana in the 1932 Newport-Bermuda race; was the last sailing vessel to carry the Royal Mail […]
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! […]
Mutin is the oldest vessel in the French Navy. She was built in 1926 in the shipyards of Florimond-Guigardeau in the region of Sables d’Olonne of France and launched on 19 March 1927. Like any tuna fishing vessels built in Sables d’Olonne MUTIN is traditionally rigged, however she never served as a tuna fishing vessel.From […]
Dar Szczecina is owned by the City of Szczecin in Poland and has undertaken many Tall Ships’ Races since 1976, normally manned by students from the city. The vessel’s name means “gift of Szczecin”.
PNS Rah Naward (which means "Swift Mover") was built as a sail training ship for the UK’s Sail Training Association and named Prince William (a sister ship to the Stavros S Niarchos built at the same time for the same organisation). Both hulls had been built in Germany in 1996, but their completion as brigantines […]
The aim of Project Orchid was to build a new sail training ship for the Royal Navy of Oman to replace the much-loved, but ageing Shabab Oman. The new ship is a three-masted squared rigged clipper, and with her distinctive ‘V’ shaped hull the ship, like all clippers, is built for speed. She has 29 […]
Atene was built in Svendborg in Denmark in 1909 and called Emanuel. Atene now sails from May to October principally with school classes but she can also be chartered privately. The aim of the organisation is to maintain old sailing ship traditions and to teach young people seamanship as practised in the past.
Golden Vanity is a traditional classic wooden gaff cutter and Mumble Bee class Brixham Sailing Trawler – First Class Sailing purchased her in a very sorry state back in 2020 from Trinity and after an extensive refurbishment she is now a much-loved part of our sail-training fleet. She was built, in 1908, as a yacht […]
Saeftinghe, designed by Dutch Naval Architect Bekebrede and built in 1993 in De Vries Jachtwerf, Lemmer, Netherlands. Saeftinghe, a ketch rig of 23.5m length, is an expedition sailing ship for Arruno Exploration.
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 […]
Rona II, an Oyster 68, is one of three vessels operated by the Rona Sailing Project. Rona II was built in 1991 and since then has become one of the hardest working and most resilient Oyster yachts in the world. She has taken more than 7,200 young people sailing, has completed 21 international and three […]