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The Krunzenshtern, departing the port of Cadiz during the Quincentennial Tall Ships race in 1992.
The four-masted bark, built in 1926 as the "Padua", is the last vessel of its kind. Built as a cargo-carrying sailing ship, she was one of the Flying P-Liners, the sailing ships of the German F. Laeisz shipping company from Hamburg.
The last Windjammer is still active today, although it has undergone a change in profession and turned training ship. Today the "Kruzenshtern" is the world's second largest sailing ship - second to Russian "Sedov" - and, without a doubt, the most famous ship in the contemporary Russian sailing fleet. Read more...
Tall Ships, these two words stir up an exciting myriad of sensations, colossal square-riggers with soaring masts and billowing sails, listing majestically to the wind, or sleek schooners sliding gracefully over the water.
Imagine being at the helm of an impressive tall ship, guiding her across seas and oceans towards exciting adventures, new experiences and unforgettable memories. Picture your self gallantly sailing along the spectacular coastlines, the magnificent Norwegian fjords or the British Isles. Beauty combined with the joy and quietness of being impelled by the wind. Read more...
Tall Ships Down: The Last Voyages of the Pamir, Albatross, Marques, Pride of Baltimore, and Maria Asumpta.
By Daniel S. Parrott, Daniel Parrott
For all its romance, the tall-ship renaissance has a tragic side. Read more...
Sail training is an adventure activity for people of all ages and abilities. It includes instruction in all aspects of sailing but its purpose goes far, far beyond this. Sail training uses the experience of being at sea principally as a means to help people learn about themselves, discover hidden strengths and talents, and understand the value of others and of working as a team.Read more...
Sail Training International is a registered charity (not for profit organisation) with worldwide membership and activities. With the purpose of developing and educating young people of all nationalities, cultures, religions and social backgrounds through the sail training experience. Read more...
The first Tall Ships’ Race was held in 1956. The original idea had been to bring together the last of the world’s sail training ships in a final farewell to the age of sail, while also bringing together the youth of the world’s seafaring people in friendly competition. However, this race proved so popular that they are still going strong today. The races are currently supported (2004 - 2009) by the City, Port and Province of Antwerp. Each year between 70 and 100 vessels from 15-20 countries, crewed by some 5-6,000 young people from over 30 countries worldwide, take part in this unique event that combines four days of activities in each port with racing or cruising-in-company between ports. During the race series the young crews get the chance to gain experience by sailing with their contemporaries from other countries while facing the physical and emotional challenges that only the ocean can provide. Read more...
The findings of the biggest ever international study into the value and effectiveness of sail training for young people are announced today. The study concludes that sail training does exactly what its proponents claim it does.
The independent worldwide research project was commissioned and funded by Sail Training International and its member national sail training organisations. It was carried out by the prestigious University of Edinburgh, highly respected internationally for research on education in non-formal settings including the outdoors. Read more...
Races and Festivals for sail training Tall Ships really began in the mid 1950s. The idea of an international race for sail training Tall Ships, manned by crews drawn from cadets and seamen under training, and to mark what was expected to be the end of the age of sail, was first discussed informally in 1953. The ‘Sail Training International Race Committee’ was established and plans were made for a race between Torbay in the UK and Lisbon in Portugal in July 1956.
But instead of marking the end of the age of sail, this first Tall Ships Race heralded the dawn of a new age for sailing ships and sail training. Read more...
`Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew make today's hightech adventurers look like dilettantes. Their interminable voyage across frozen land and open sea is one of the most harrowing survival stories of all time.' Sebastian Junger, author of the bestselling The Perfect Storm.
In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men set sail for the South Atlantic on board the Endurance. The object of the expedition was to cross the Antarctic overland. In October 1915, still half a continent away from their intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in ice. For seventeen months Shackleton and his men, drifting on ice packs and then on the stormiest seas on the globe, were castaways in this most savage region of the world. Read more...
Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World, acclaimed author Laurence Bergreen, interweaving a variety of candid, first-person accounts, some previously unavailable in English, brings to life this groundbreaking and majestic tale of discovery that changed many long-held views about the world and the way explorers would henceforth navigate its oceans. Read more...
The Tall Ships' Races are held every summer in European waters. Each year between 70 and 100 vessels from 15-20 countries, crewed by some 5-6,000 young people from over 30 countries worldwide, take part in this unique event that combines four days of activities in each port with racing or cruising-in-company between ports. Read more...
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The International Summer Festival of Tall Ships, traditional ships and yachts.
More than 250 large tall ships were built here. And more than seven million emigrants set off from here for the New World. This is where German deep-sea fishing began; it is a centre of polar, marine and climatic research. Bremerhaven is Europe’s largest producer of deep-frozen foods, the home of the NationalGermanMaritimeMuseum, the leading international harbour for the import and export of cars and one of the world’s largest container terminals. When it comes to superior maritime achievements, Bremerhaven is top of the league worldwide.Read more...
The visit of the Tenacious to Rouen marks the autumn for the ArmadaAs the superb line-up for the Armada 2008 steadily takes shape, the Armada Association invited the English three-master, the Tenacious, to make a friendly port call from September 17 to 19, 2007 to the banks of the Norman capital before its arrival in Rouen next July. Read more...
The Funchal 500 Tall Ships Regatta and Festival do Mar 2008 will be the centrepiece of year-long celebrations of the 500th anniversary of the first settlement on the Portuguese island of Madeira. Read more...
Sail of Hope is a Humanitarian Aid organization that sends food items and clothing to disadvantaged children, orphans and widows in Moscow, Russia. Sail of Hope was originally chartered in Moscow, Russia by a courageous woman, Larissa Zelentsova. Sail of Hope exists to help the mentally and physically challenged people of Russia. Read more...
FREE CREW FINDER – SAILORS LOOKING FOR TALL SHIPS OR CRUISERS TO SAIL ON
Use this sailing free crewfinder board if you are looking for a crew position on a tall ship or cruiser.
Boston, Massachusetts, is the latest city to sign up as a host port for the Tall Ships Atlantic Challenge 2009, joining five already under contract outside the USA. Other ports in the USA are expected to sign soon. The Tall Ships Atlantic Challenge is organised by Sail Training International in collaboration with the American Sail Training Association. Read more...
The Tall Ships' Races are held every summer in European waters. Each year between 70 and 100 vessels from 15-20 countries, crewed by some 5-6,000 young people from over 30 countries worldwide, take part in this unique event that combines four days of activities in each port with racing or cruising-in-company between ports. During the race series the young crews get the chance to gain experience by sailing with their contemporaries from other countries while facing the physical and emotional challenges that only the ocean can provide. Read more...
Five world-class marine artists exhibit some of the most breathtaking paintings of ships ever published, in huge, oversize, full-color gallery-quality reproductions. Along with the gorgeous art comes the artists' own descriptions of their subjects and explanations of how they executed their work. The term "tall ships" calls to mind the majestic beauties that graced America's Bicentennial, but this collection also features paintings of such immortals as the Bounty, the Pinta and the Nina. Enjoy the views the clipper Southern Cross saw leaving Colonial Boston Harbor; an 1870 New York Yacht Club race; and many more scenes unforgettable to lovers of art and sailing alike. Read more...
Tracing an awe-inspiring oceanic route from Boston, around Cape Horn, to the California coast, Two Years Before the Mast is both a riveting story of adventure and the most eloquent, insightful account we have of life at sea in the early nineteenth century. Richard Henry Dana is only nineteen when he abandons the patrician world of Boston and Harvard for an arduous voyage among real sailors, amid genuine danger. The result is an astonishing read, replete with vivid descriptions of storms, whales, and the ship's mad captain, terrible hardship and magical beauty, and fascinating historical detail, including an intriguing portrait of California before the gold rush. As D. H. Lawrence proclaimed, "Dana's small book is a very great book." Read more...
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