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JSASTC presently operates 30 sail training vessels of which two are ocean-going Challenge 72s,  15 are Victoria 34s, 10 are Hallberg Rassey 342s, one a Comfortina 42 and 2  are folk boats. JSASTC arranges expeditions and adventurous sail training for all the UK Armed Forces, and this includes leader training and development.  Based in Gosport, […]

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 […]

Statsraad Lehmkuhl is a three-masted steel barque, built in 1914 in Bremerhaven, Germany as a training ship for the German merchant navy and originally called Grossherzog Friedrich August.She was used as a stationary school ship in Germany for most of the First World War, becoming a trophy of war at the end of the war. […]

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 […]

Williwaw belongs to the Sail Training Association of Belgium (S.T.A.B.), having been entrusted to them from the city of Antwerp in 1998. S.T.A.B. completed a total restoration of Williwaw using volunteers and help from the National Maritime Museum. Onboard Williwaw, a world traveller Willy de Roos first circumnavigated the American continent from east to west, […]

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 […]

Caroline was built in 1885 in Kristiansand at Sterkoder yard,  by the famous boatbuilder John Borve.  Originally named Trine, she was built as a sailing cargo vessel, mostly used to buy stockfish in Lofoten, northern Norway, sailed to Bergen or Kristiansand to sell the fish, returning with general cargo.   The first engine was installed […]

Esprit is a cold moulded wooden boat with a modern schooner rig, gaff fore and Bermuda main. She was built at the Bremer Bootsbau Vegesack GmbH (BBV) Shipyard in Bremen in 1995 and honoured in 1997 for her work promoting international understanding sailing with 50:50 German and English crew, winning the Cutty Sark Trophy. Since […]

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 […]

Italia is the ex Swan Fan Makkum and was based on a design that made history in the 19th century when Brigantines were largely in use because of their outstanding sailing qualities and is the biggest in the world. The Brigantine, with her enormous mainsail on the hind mast was incredibly agile and the combination […]

Le Quy Don, is the first ever sail training ship of the Vietnamese Navy.  She is named after a Vietnamese scientist, writer, and famous poet of the 18th century.    She is 67 m long designed by CHOREN company (Poland), the construction almost completed on the Polish private shipyard Marine Projects Ltd in Gdansk under the supervision of Polski Holding Obronny […]

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 […]

La Grace is a replica of a historical tall-ship from the 18th century which will sail the Seven Seas as the original ship did some 300 hundred years ago. The aim of the project is to give all the interested people an opportunity to sail a historical ship under the naval craft training program and […]

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 […]