Relive The Tall Ships Races 2025
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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 […]
Dewaruci was built in 1952 by H C Stulcken & Sohn Hamburg, West Germany, and launched on 24 January 1953. She sailed to Indonesia with Indonesian naval officers and cadets. The ship has been used as a training ship in the Indonesian Naval Academy based in Surabaya. The mission of KRI Dewaruci is to: – […]
The “Juan Sebastián Elcano” is the Spanish Navy midshipmen training vessel. She is a four masted topsail schooner with a hull made of iron and a crew composed of 220 members, including midshipmen. She was launched in 1927 and delivered to the “Armada” in 1928. Since then, she has completed 77 training voyages including ten […]
St.Iv is the longest serving sail training vessel in Estonia and has participated in The Tall Ships Races since 1993. In the following years, several podium places were brought home from regattas held in the North Sea, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Baltic Sea. St. Iv, is an ocean-class yacht Conrad 1200 GT, built for […]
Launched in 2017, Bima Suci is the Indonesian Navy’s newest, and largest, sail training ship. The vessel is named after Javanese hero that was a symbol of force, bravery and righteousness. This beautiful ship acts as a "floating ambassador" for Indonesia, paying courtesy visits to port and events around the world. This spectacular vessel is […]
PELICAN OF LONDON is unique among Square Riggers. Her hull form was derived from the elite French clippers of the late 19th century, with a length to breadth ratio of 5:1, a flared bow, fine entry and run. A long poop deck has been added which provides exceptional space and comfort for worldwide operation. Her […]
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 […]
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 […]
Zarco belongs to the Portuguese Navy, and will participate in The Tall Ships Races 2016 for the first time. She and Polar sail in the region of the Iberian Peninsula, and the concept of use is weekend sailing during school time and holiday sailing for 4 or 5 weeks.
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 […]
Maybe, launched in 1933, was designed for round the world cruising and built by De Vries Lentsch, Amsterdam for Jan Jacob van Rietschoten. She was hidden during the Second World War and afterwards she underwent a complete refit with a new rig. Maybe took part in the first Tall Ships Race in 1956.She sailed mainly […]