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Valborg was built 1948 in Porvoo, Southern Finland, to serve as a cargo vessel and carried mostly sand and timber between Finnish ports. After she retired in the early 70’s Valborg was fully renovated and became a sail training ship for scouts. Today the ship is owned by Valborg LTD.   Nowadays Valborg serves as […]

MIRCEA was built between 1938-1939 in Blohm and Voss Shipyard, Hamburg, Germany and she was commissioned in the Romanian Royal Navy on May 17, 1939. MIRCEA is an A class barque (three mast sailing boat). The name of MIRCEA comes from the Vallachian ruler Mircea cel Batran (1386-1418), who extended his kingdom up to the […]

SY Bies is a DIY-built sea yacht that sails the Baltic and the North Sea. Its name comes from the pre-Slavonic demon known as Bies. The hull was built at the beginning of the 1970s in the industrial equipment facilities (ZUP) in Nysa before being finally equipped and fitted out at the yacht yard in […]

The ship is the sixth to carry the name Esmeralda. The first was the frigate Esmeralda captured from the Spanish at Callao, Peru, by Admiral Lord Thomas Alexander Cochrane of the Chilean Navy, in a bold incursion on the night of 5 November 1820. The second was the corvette Esmeralda of the Chilean Navy which, […]

The Impossible Dream is a universally accessible 60’ sailing catamaran. She was created by Mike Browne, a paraplegic who had a dream of creating a vessel that could sail the oceans and is fully operational by a person in a wheelchair. She was designed by Nick Baily and built by Multi-Marine. Mike Browne realized his […]

La Nébuleuse is an iconic sailing vessel built in 1948 at the Le Hir & Péron shipyards in Camaret-sur-Mer, Brittany. Commissioned by Rolande Le Hégarat and Pierre Marchadour, this tuna fishing schooner was crafted in the tradition of master shipbuilders, using noble materials such as oak wood dried since the 1930s. Launched in 1949, this […]

Capitan Miranda was launched in Spain in 1930 and began her career as a cargo vessel. She is named after the Uruguayan hydrographer Captain Francisco Miranda (1868-1925) who served Uruguay as a cabinet officer, war secretary and later professor of marine geography at the Naval Academy of Uruguay. Captain Miranda was used as a hydrographic […]

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 […]

Ingrid was built in Denmark in 1932 by Frederikssund Skibsværft A/S Shipyard. First 60 years she worked as a fishing vessel. After that she needed total renovation which was done by Simrishamn Varv Ab in Sweden 1995-2002. Ingrid got one taller mast instead of two shorter ones for better sailing properties. The hull was totally […]

Kyrre is a 27-ton and 43 feet long, gaff rigged sailing vessel which was built in 1925 in Risor, Norway. Kyrre started out as a fishing vessel, but after 44 years Kyrre went from fishing vessel to a private yacht.  Kyrre has been owned by different people through the years, but was bought by the Sea Scout […]

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 […]