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Ortac is a Contessa 43 built by Jeremy Rogers’ yard in Lymington in 1979.  Of the only fifteen Contessa 43s built, one was the top-scoring boat in the 1977 Admiral’s Cup, including the Fastnet Race. Another sister yacht competed in the 1981 Whitbread Round The World Race, making it the smallest yacht ever to have […]

Built in1954 in Les Sables-d’Olonne, France at the shipyard Union et Travail. Was operated for years by the group Refuge des Marins in Brittany until the 1980s when it was purchased by Christian and Suzanne de Parada in 1986. Used for sail training with youth.

Faramir, a Ketch with a length of 22.35m and a breadth of 5.26m, was designed by Marine Architect David Cannell in 1982, specifically for use as a sail training vessel for an organisation called Shaftsbury Homes & Arethusa, from where she gained her name, ‘Arethusa’. In 2002, after many years of service, during which she […]

The rescue ship “Bryza” was built in 1952 in Puck. For years the vessel served rescue ship operating company. In 1983, the new owner Waldemar Heisler rebuilt the vessel on a sailing yacht. Then the name of the ship was extended with the letter H, the initials of the name of the owner. This yacht […]

Ryvingen is a pilot boat built in 1918 for sail and engine. She was pilot boat number 4, and this is why she has the number 4 in her mainsail together with a red vertical stripe. The red stripe is the symbol for a pilot boat, so she can be easily recognized. She got her […]

The sailing vessel BRABANDER which belongs to Klaipeda University was bought from Netherlands in November 2006. The name of the boat has not been changed. S/v BRABANDER is being used for the purposes of student’s training, marine research and tourism. The crew of the boat consists of students, sea cadets and yachts men. S/v BRABANDER […]

Aurantytto serves as a training vessel for the Girl Sea Scout Troop Auran Tytot – her homeport is Turku, Finland. She is 17m high and her areas of operation are throughout the Baltic Sea. The troop purchased Aurantytto in2017 as a celebration of the troop’s 100th birthday, replacing the old training vessel. Aurantytto was built […]

Having begun life as a cargo ship transporting sugar from the West Indies as well as cocoa and coffee from Brazil and French Guiana to Nantes in France, the tall ship Belem is now over 120 years old, with a history that also includes becoming a private yacht for Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster […]

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 […]

“SANTA MARIA MANUELA” (SMM) is a four masted gaff schooner initially launched in 1937, built by Companhia Uniao Fabril, in Lisbon. She began operating in cod fishing being one of the most beautiful vessels of the so famous Portuguese White Fleet. In 1993, due to obsolescence, she was abated to the fishing fleet, being partially […]

The Caravel ‘Vera Cruz’, the third built by APORVELA on the original Project of the Shipwright Alm Rogerio de Oliveira was aimed to substitute the previous Boa Esperanca which, during the twelve years of service on Sail Training for the trainees of APORVELA, sailed over 60,000 miles on the Atlantic and Mediterranean, visiting ports in […]

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 […]

SOUTH PASSAGE is a gaff rigged schooner. She was launched on 23 September 1993 and named South Passage after the channel between Moreton and North Stradbroke Islands. Her maiden voyage with 24 students was in December 1993. Since then she has taken over 40,000 students sailing on voyages varying from six hours to seven days.