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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 […]

The fore and aft Schooner Constantia was built in Denmark in 1908 and moved to Sweden in 1920. She traded as a cargo ship until 1967 when she became a pleasure ship. Her present owners bought her in 1988 and after a five-year restoration in Stockholm, her owner formed Solnaship Foundation to operate her – […]

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 […]

TORNADO II was built in 2013 by Delphia Yachts in Olecko, Poland. This brave and sea worthy yacht was designed by the legendary Polish designer Andrzej Skrzat as a Delphia 47. Tornado II was welcomed in our Sailing Training Center as the last yacht in a fleet of eleven class A yachts which are sailing under […]

Cykas was built in 1999 in Ukraine. The yacht was purchased in 2021 by sailing enthusiasts with expedition cruises in mind. After the purchase the owner started the refit project and the plan was to refresh the deck, sides and make minor modifications. The first voyage was planned for 2022, but after 3 years of […]

Albanus was built in 1988 and is a replica of a typical �land galeas, a two-masted schooner which was used by farmers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to carry firewood, farming products and fish to ports in the Baltic like Stockholm, Helsinki and Turku. In an eighty year period from the mid 1800s, […]

Built in 1934 in Les Sables-d’Olonne for a skipper from Groix, Biche fished for tuna until 1956 before sailing under the Belgian and English flags. In 1992, it was bought by the Port Museum of Douarnenez, then restored by our association “Les Amis du Biche”. Today, Biche is sailing again, a living witness to Breton […]

THALASSA was originally built in 1980 in Harlingen, Holland, but after she sank in 1985 was bought by Arnold Hilkema and Jacob Jan Dam who totally rebuilt and refitted her. She was relaunched in 1995. 2004 was the first year she competed in The Tall Ships Races.

The “Gulden Leeuw” is a big, sturdy sailing ship reminiscent of the 30’s and with the deck layout of a classic yacht. This ship was built in 1937 on behalf of the Danish Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. The DANA was designed and built as an ocean-going ice class ship. During her period of service […]

The present training ship Sagres was built in 1937 at the Blohm & Voss shipyards, in Hamburg. Her original name was Albert Leo Schlageter and she was the third of a series of four ships procured at the time by the German Navy (Kriegsmarine). The other three ships were the Gorch Fock (1933) – Tovarish […]

Libertad, a full-rigged ship, was built in 1956 as a sail training ship for the Argentine Navy on which thousands of midshipmen and petty officers have learnt the sea and navigating arts on her decks and in her classrooms. Every training trip is a genuine academic term, a nurturing source of experience and knowledge for […]

Hosanna, a Centurion 47′ built in Wauquiez shipyard was launched in Saint-Martin in 1990. With a bespoke design for Mr Labouret, back then Wauquiez board member, she was used as a prototype model for the famous Centurion 49′. Mr. Labouret sailed on her in the Caribbean from 1990 to 1994 as she was part of […]

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 […]