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The sail training ship Eendracht

Monday, 1 June 2026 - 01:00 pm (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union
Category/Kategorie: General, Tall ships, Yacht of the Month Reading Time:  3 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post 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.

She is now run on a charter base by Stichting Zeilschip Eendracht (the Foundation Sail Ship Eendracht) and used as a sail training ship to give young people an introduction to the sea. This is the second “Eendracht“, Eendracht meaning ‘unison’ in the Dutch language, though a closer translation as a ship’s name would be Concordia). The first vessel run by the same foundation was a two masted schooner, which was sold to German owners and now sails under the name of “Johann Smidt”.

The foundation that runs the programme was founded in 1938 but with the second world war disrupting the plans, it took a lot longer than anticipated to raise the funds for the first ship. Soon after the first vessel, originally a topsail schooner, was launched, it was realised that the vessel was too small for the purposes of the foundation. Immediately the planning for a larger three masted vessel began.

This three-masted vessel has sailed continuously since her launch date. Every year she spends the winter months in the south, and the summer in the North Sea region. She has a crew of around 350 mostly professional, volunteers.

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