1 June 2026 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Category: General , Tall ships , Yacht of the Month
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Eendracht is a three-masted
schooner from the
Netherlands , built in 1989 at the
Damen shipyard after a design by W. de Vries Lentsch. Her homeport is
Rotterdam .
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1 May 2026 | Author/Destination: South America / Südamerika | Category: General , Tall ships , Yacht of the Month
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🔊 Listen to this Post Cisne Branco is a
tall ship of the
Brazilian Navy , based at
Rio de Janeiro ,
Brazil , used for diplomatic and public relations operations worldwide. Her name means “white swan.” A
full-rigged ship, she was built in
Amsterdam ,
Netherlands by
Damen Shipyard . Her
keel was
laid on 9 November 1998, and she was christened and
launched on 4 August 1999, delivered to the Brazilian Navy on 4 February 2000. The vessel was
commissioned as a Brazilian naval vessel on 9 March 2000. Its
sister ship is
Stad Amsterdam .
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1 April 2026 | Author/Destination: Yachting and Spa | Category: General , Cruise Ships , Yacht of the Month
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Golden Horizon at Brodosplit Shipyard in Split, Croatia © Ballota/cc-by-sa-4.0
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Golden Horizon is a steel-
hulled five-
masted barque rigged tall ship which is intended to serve as a
cruise ship , but has almost never seen active service. Originally named
Flying Clipper , the luxury vessel was designed by
Polish naval architect Zygmunt Choreń , for Star Clippers Ltd. of Sweden, and built by the
Brodosplit Shipyard in
Split, Croatia . She is the largest sailing ship ever launched. Her design was based on
France II , a famous French five-mast cargo
windjammer built in 1911.
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1 March 2026 | Author/Destination: Yachting and Spa | Category: Cruise Ships , Yacht of the Month
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The Moby Dick is a
passenger ship operated by Bonner Fähr- und Fahrgastschifffahrt GmbH & Co. KG (the company also operated the Rhine ferry
Rheinnixe until 2022 and the MS RheinTreue since the beginning of 2025). The striking ship, shaped like a
whale , usually travels on the
Rhine between
Bonn and
Linz am Rhein . It was built in 1976 at the
Oberkassel shipyard. Its inspiration and name came from a
beluga whale that swam up the Rhine to Bonn in 1966 and was named after
Herman Melville ‘s novel
Moby Dick .
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1 February 2026 | Author/Destination: Caribbean / Karibik | Category: Cruise Ships , Yacht of the Month
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Port of Amsterdam, Netherlands © AlfvanBeem
🔊 Listen to this Post Vision of the Seas is a
Vision-class cruise ship operated by
Royal Caribbean International , the last of her class. She is also the namesake of her class. Her maiden voyage began on May 2, 1998, following which she sailed for a year in
Europe before being moved to other routes.
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1 January 2026 | Author/Destination: Yachting and Spa | Category: Tall ships , Yacht of the Month
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at quai Richard Waddington, Rouen, France © Chabe01/cc-by-sa-4.0
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KRI
Bima Suci (945) is a
barque and
training ship of the
Indonesian Navy .
Bima Suci was
launched on 18 September 2017 by Freire Shipyard,
Vigo ,
Spain . The vessel was
commissioned in 2017.
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1 December 2025 | Author/Destination: Yachting and Spa | Category: Cruise Ships , Yacht of the Month
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Empire Windrush was a
passenger motor ship that was launched in Germany in 1930 as the MV
Monte Rosa . She was built as an
ocean liner for the German shipping company
Hamburg Süd . They used the ship to carry German emigrants to South America, and as a
cruise ship . During
World War II , she was taken over by the
German navy and used as a
troopship . During the war, she survived two
Allied attempts to sink her.
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1 November 2025 | Author/Destination: Yachting and Spa | Category: Tall ships , Cruise Ships , Yacht of the Month
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The Golden Horizon at Brodosplit Shipyard in Split © Ballota/cc-by-sa-4.0
🔊 Listen to this Post SV Golden Horizon is a steel-
hulled five-
masted barque rigged tall ship which is intended to serve as a
cruise ship , but has almost never seen active service. Originally named
Flying Clipper , the luxury vessel was designed by
Polish naval architect Zygmunt Chore? , for Star Clippers Ltd. of Sweden, and built by the
Brodosplit Shipyard in
Split, Croatia . She is the largest sailing ship ever launched. Her design was based on
France II , a famous French five-mast cargo
windjammer built in 1911.
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1 October 2025 | Author/Destination: Yachting and Spa | Category: Tall ships , Yacht of the Month
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passing Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge, Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, USA © Cruadin/cc-by-2.5
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INS
Tarangini is a
three-masted barque , commissioned in 1997 as a
sail training ship for the
Indian Navy . She is
square rigged on the fore and main masts and
fore-and-aft rigged on the mizzen mast. She was constructed in
Goa to a design by the British
naval architect Colin Mudie , and launched on 1 December 1995. In 2003–04, she became the first
Indian naval ship to
circumnavigate the globe .
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