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View Comparison ListFaramir, 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 […]
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 […]
Construction of Westvind started in March 1913. Shipwright Anders Mattsson built her as a gaff ketch in Kungsviken on the isle Orust on the Swedish west coast. The order came from the fishing team Vestvind of Kalvsund in the Gothenburg northern archipelago. At delivery in 1914, she was equipped with a 20 hk Ideal engine, […]
The Topsail-schooner has been in service since early 1983. The Thor Heyerdahl is based with its activities in the Baltic and the North Sea during the summer months, and around the Canary Islands, and in the Caribbean during the winter season. Since 1996, the Thor Heyerdahl is the flag ship of High Seas High School […]
Atlantica was built in Skagen, Denmark, 1981 as a sail training vessel. Atlantica was built basically on the lines of Gratitude. Since 1982 Atlantica has been sailing with teenage and adult trainees during Summer months, and with schools and companies during Spring and Autumn. Svenska Kryssarklubbens Seglarskola (The Swedish Cruising Club Sail Training […]
Alba Venturer was designed and built by Oyster Marine Ltd in 1998 and launched in 1999. She has a standard Oyster 70 hull, but is fitted to the Ocean Youth Trust’s specifications for sail training and sails mainly around the west coast of Scotland.
The ‘Merrilyn’ is a 65ft schooner with special features to assist those with disabilities and is operated by the Rona Sailing Project as a sail training vessel.
Skreien is a small sailing cargo vessel built in Kristiansund (North-West Norway) in 1909 for transporting fish. In the winter she brought salted cod from the North of Norway to Kristiansund. Here it was dried and shipped to Portugal, Spain and Brazil as “Bacalao”. After 65 years in shipping, a major restoration work was initiated […]
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. […]
Pegasus is the youngest vessel in the fleet, based on the designs of the famous Bristol Channel Pilot Cutters. Designed by Ed Burnett and built by The Bristol Classic Boat Co., on Redcliffe Wharf by the Rolt brothers. She is elegant, luxurious and fast. Pegasus races competitively in the STI Tall Ships Races, and is […]
“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 […]
Provident is a gaff ketch Brixham Trawler. She began life as a fishing vessel in 1924 sailing out of Brixham for six years before being bought by an American owner and converted to the yacht that she is today. She has changed little since then – an engine, a few more berths, some upgrades to […]
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 60ft two-masted schooner Adventure Wales, formerly named Ocean Venture, was built for adventure and over the years she has circumnavigated the world, won First in Class in the famous Round the Island Race, raced in numerous transatlantic activities (including the ARC) and taken part in the international Tall Ships Races. More recently she has been used […]