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S/Y Gigi was built in 1996 by Nautor Swan in Jacobstad, Finland. She has been sailing mainly in the Mediterranean Sea and around the British Isles, but has also crossed the Atlantic and sailed in the Caribbean. As of 2010 S/Y Gigi is owned by the foundation Navigare Necesse Est. Her home port is Halleviksstrand […]
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.
Kapitan Głowacki was built around 1942 in Germany as a semi-military ship. She was abandoned after the war and found by some Polish people lying in the sand in the North-West corner of Poland. She was quickly renovated as a sailing ship and served as a training vessel undertaking various exercises for maritime schools in […]
Prolific was built in 2005, as a tribute to the herring-fishing vessels in operation along the Norwegian coast during the 19th century. The ship is a hybrid of historic design and modern-day construction. Most recently, she has been used for sail training with young people in Norway. Ocean Youth Trust South purchased Prolific in 2015 […]
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 […]
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 – […]
Roald Amundsen was built in 1952 in Roblau/Elbe as a NVA tank logger for the former GDR’s National People’s Army. In 1992, the boat builder Detlev L ll and his friends from the society `Learn to Live on Sailing Ships` turned her into a brig as part of a programme against unemployment. Roald Amundsen made […]
STS Kapitan Borchardt is a three-masted gaff-rigged schooner constructed in 1918, in the Netherlands, as an oceanic cargo ship. Over the years ‘Nora’ (launching name) was frequently renamed and when she arrived at the Polish coast she was called ‘Najaden’. In 1934 a crash with Pinguin – Dutch offshore motor ship – took place on […]
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, […]
Vega Gamleby was built in 1909 in Viken, Sweden. She has sailed the Baltic Seas for many years up until a motor was built in the ship in 1932. Until 1937, her home ports were Lerberget and Hoganas. Later, she found her hometown in Skarhamn until 1966. After she was bought by director B. Guthenberg, […]
Toronto Brigantine Inc. operates two brigantines, the sail-training vessels Pathfinder and Playfair. They were both designed and built as sail training vessels for TBI by Francis A. McLachlan in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Pathfinder was launched in 1963. TBI is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to building character in youth through sail training. This is accomplished through […]
Young Endeavour was a gift from the United Kingdom to the Government and people of Australia to mark the Bicentenary in 1988. Construction began on the ship in May 1986 in Lowestoft, England and on 3 August 1987 she began the long voyage to Australia with a crew which included 24 young people from Britain […]
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 […]
Bermudan sloop St. Iv is a Conrad 1200GT built in 1990 by Conrad Yards in Poland. She sails with a crew up to 10 but can also be sailed double-handed. In 1993 St. Iv participated in The Tall Ships Races for the first time and since then has often taken part in The Tall Ships […]
Merisissi III is owned and run by the Sea Scout Troop from Turku in Finland. She has participated in the Cutty Sark Tall Ships Races in 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000 replacing the wooden Merisissi III which took part in the Cutty Sark Tall Ships Race in 1972.