The Rum Regatta (also spelled Rumregatta, Danish: Romregatta) is the largest gaff-rigged sailing meeting in Northern Europe. Since 1980, every year on the weekend after Ascension Day, well over 100 participating ships meet on the Flensburg Inner Fjord for a regatta that is more reminiscent of a “unserious squadron trip”. read more…
The Albatros – previously Dagmar Larssen, Iris Thy and Esther Lohse – is a three-masted topsail schooner belonging to the “Clipper” club and is used for trips with young people and older sailors. The sailing ship with the relatively high jibboom mainly sails in the German and Danish Baltic Seas. Every year it is moored at Ring-Andersen in Svendborg for winter maintenance work, which is largely carried out on a voluntary basis. read more…
Santa Maria Manuela is a Portuguese four-masted schooner. Originally a codfish fishing ship, Santa Maria Manuela is now used for sail training, hands on sailing holidays, environmental expeditions and team development programs. It belongs to Grupo Jerónimo Martins and is the sistership of the Portuguese Navy‘s Creoula. It’s one of the last ships of the former Portugese “Frota Branca/White Fleet”. read more…
MSY Wind Surf is a five-mast staysailschooner that is one of the largest sailing cruise ships in the world, with two electric propulsion motors powered by four diesel electric generating sets also. She can carry up to 342 passengers, in a total of 150 ocean-view staterooms, 18 ocean-view suites and 2 deluxe bridge suites, with a crew of 210. Wind Surf had been owned and operated by Club Med under the name Club Med 1, and was later transferred to Windstar Cruises. read more…
Le Ponant is a three-masted, commercially operated Frenchluxury yacht operated by Compagnie du Ponant. The ship has capacity for up to 32 passengers in 16 cabins. It was built 1991 by the Societe Francaise de Construction Navales (SFCN) shipyard in Villeneuve-la-Garenne, France. In 2008, the ship was attacked by Somali pirates and was only released after a military intervention. In 2022, the yacht was refitted for increased environmental protection to a design by Jean-Philippe Nuel Studio. read more…
The Sea Cloud Spirit is a three-masted full-rigged ship built as a cruise ship by the Hamburg shipping company Sea Cloud Cruises. The ship was ordered on March 22, 2007 from the SpanishVigo. The ship’s keel was laid on July 18, 2008. In the summer of 2010, the shipyard went bankrupt. The further construction of the ship was then initially set. read more…