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The history of the sailing ship ARC Gloria began in 1966, when the Colombian Government, by means of Decree Number 111, authorized the National Navy with Vice Admiral Orlando Lemaitre Torres as its Commanding Officer, to acquire a sailing vessel like a three-masted Barque to become the Training Ship of the Colombian Navy. It is […]

Wielkopolska, meaning ‘Greater Poland’, was built in the 1960s according to the design of Leon Tumiłowicz (class TOM). Sailors entering Jastarnia (Poland, Hel Peninsula) have been welcomed for years by the decaying white, slim hull of a classic yacht. He was standing on the quay, clearly visible from the water. Everyone wondered what this unit […]

Yacht Farurej is a mahogany yawl built in 1980 in Joseph Conrad’s Shipyard in Gdańsk for the Yacht Club ATOL in Warsaw, which became a branch of a Polish Navy Yacht Club. Farurej is named after Jan Farurej from Grabowo, Sulima coat of arms – famous 15th century knight, Spisz’s starost, Cracow’s stolnik, brother of Zawisza […]

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 […]

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 […]

Rona II, an Oyster 68, is one of three vessels operated by the Rona Sailing Project. Rona II was built in 1991 and since then has become one of the hardest working and most resilient Oyster yachts in the world. She has taken more than 7,200 young people sailing, has completed 21 international and three […]

SY Politechnika – Opal IV type yacht (Conrad 45), which is owned by the Student Sailing Club of the Warsaw University of Technology. It was established in 1978 and since then has served as the club’s flagship vessel

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 […]

Penlena has been involved in Sail Training for most of her recent existence. Firstly under her former name “Gunna”  in the London Sailing project as part of the Greater London Council’s flotilla, giving young offenders the opportunity to lift their horizons by learning everything being at sea under sail has to offer.  More recently she […]

The James Cook is named after Captain James Cook, RN, FRS, probably one of the greatest sailors, explorers and navigators ever to go to sea, and our boat spends much of her time sailing the North Sea waters where the young Cook learned his sailing skills. A regular in The Tall and Small Ships’ Races […]

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 […]