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Seute Deern was built in Denmark in 1939 by the Ring Andersen Yard in Svendborg and launched with the name Havet which means The Sea. For the first five years, during the war, she sailed in coastal waters. In 1956 she was sold to a Danish shipping company, Lauritzen, which used her for carrying freight […]

Etoile and Belle Poule, 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 […]

Gunilla was built as a motorsailor in the 30’s and used as a cargo vessel until 1997 when she was rebuilt into a 3-masted barque. She has since been active as a sailing college, where social studies students in the age from 16-18 years spend 60 days each year as a part of their education, […]

Palinuro was launched in 1934 at Nantes, France and christened The Commandant Louis Richard. She originally had three masts with fore and aft sails and plied her trade across the Atlantic Ocean between France and North America. She was put up for sale in 1950 and purchased by the Italian Navy. Radical rebuilding in the […]

Provident is a gaff ketch Brixham Trawler. She began life as a fishing vessel in 1924 sailing out of Brixham for six years before being bought by an American owner and converted to the yacht that she is today. She has changed little since then – an engine, a few more berths, some upgrades to […]

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 […]

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 […]

Joined our fleet in 2006 from a previous life as a round-the-word racing yacht with BT Global Challenge. Formerly called Samsung, Alba Explorer has been modified to work with young people and adapted for coastal sailing. Alba Explorer is a Challenge 72’ with a Bermudan Sloop rig which means she has a single mast. Alba […]

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 […]

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 […]

The schooner Adventuress was built for John Borden II at the Rice Brothers’ yard in East Boothbay, Maine, and was designed by B.B. Crowninshield. Launched in 1913, Borden intended to sail Adventuress to Alaska to catch a bowhead whale for the American Museum of Natural History in New York.  Aboard this maiden voyage sailed the […]

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 […]

Polar was formerly called Anne Linde and is a replica of America, the first winner of the America’s Cup. It was built in Holland in 1977 and used for charter cruises in the Mediterranean until 1982. In 1983, it was bought by the organisation Windjammer fur Hamburg and delivered to the Portuguese Navy in exchange […]

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 […]

The training ship Georg Stage was built in 1934 at Frederikshavn Shipyard and floating dock. It is a fully rigged vessel with a permanent crew of 10 and 63 trainees. The training ship belongs to the independent institution The Georg Stage Memorial Foundation, whose aim is: ‘To give young people wishing to go to sea, […]