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Geronimo is a voyage of self-discovery. Student crew members discover the joys and challenges of life aboard a 69-foot cutter as they sail along one leg of a transatlantic tour that from 2015-2017 featured stops in the Azores, Spain, Italy, Greece, the Canary Islands and Puerto Rico, as well as ports along the eastern coast […]

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 […]

Sailing yacht Karedzhi was built in Saint-Petersburg (Leningrad) in 1969. She is a classic wooden 12-meter racing cruiser yacht of the L-6 class. During 47 years of her racing history, “Karedzhi” multiple times participated in high-level offshore regattas in the Baltic Sea region. Under the leadership of Captain Yuri E. Funtikov “Karedzhi” and her crew […]

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 […]

Master Frank is the oldest half-deck fishing boat, known as a longliner, on the Isle of Man. She was built between 1893 and 1895 and according to a report in the Ramsey Courieur at her launch, 29 January 1896: ‘She is very strongly built and bids fair to be a good, useful boat.’ At 40 […]

Challenge Wales originally raced around the world, twice, in the Global Challenge Yacht Race before being used for sail training. Sailing with up to 18 people on board, she has taken part in Tall Ships Races and Regattas, Small Ships Races, and undertakes sail training activities predominantly around Wales, Ireland and the South Coast of […]

S/Y Gigi was built in 1996 by Nautor Swan in Jacobstad, Finland. She has been sailing mainly in the Mediterranean Sea and around the British Isles, but has also crossed the Atlantic and sailed in the Caribbean.  As of 2010 S/Y Gigi is owned by the foundation Navigare Necesse Est. Her home port is Halleviksstrand […]

Pallada was designed by Polish naval architect Zygmunt Choreń, launched in 1989 and only three years later she sailed around the globe. Her round-the-world cruise was dedicated to the 270th anniversary of Russia’s colonization of Alaska and the 50th Anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s pioneering space flight. She is considered the world’s fastest sailing ship as […]

Built in1954 in Les Sables-d’Olonne, France at the shipyard Union et Travail. Was operated for years by the group Refuge des Marins in Brittany until the 1980s when it was purchased by Christian and Suzanne de Parada in 1986. Used for sail training with youth.

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 […]

Young people aged 12-14 can get their first taste of adventure aboard the 87’ (36.3 m) Tall Ship Black Jack, while parents can be assured that their child is safe in secure waters. At Black Jack Island Adventure Camp, young people have the best of both worlds: working alongside crew to sail a Tall Ship […]

“Mir”, which means Peace, was built as the third of five sister ships at the Lenin-shipyard in Gdansk, Poland, based on a new type of design for square rigged training vessels. The first ship of this design was called Dar Mlodziezy, which was built to replace the old sail training ship Dar Pormoza for the […]

Morgenster was launched in 1919 as a herring lugger “Vrouw Maria” SCH 324 for the fishing company den Dulk. She was built at the shipyard Boot in Alphen. In 1927 she was motorised (200 HP La Meuse) and extended for another 7 meters. There she got her new name “Morgenster”. She continued as a motorised […]