Links
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Links to other Tall Ships information
Links to Sail Training organizations
Links to other Tall Ships
Links to information about Northland
Links to information about New Zealand
Links to Travel Agents booking New Zealand holidays
Other Travel related useful links
Links to other Tall Ship resources
The Tall Ships Training Forum - forum discussion group for loads of information
The Tall Ships Trainees Forum - another equally interesting discussion forum
The Tallships Webring site
Tall ship links page
Mark Rosenstein's sailing page - full of links to other sailing sites
The Mother of all Maritime Links site
Schoonerman, a site full of tall ship information
The UK based Tallship.co.uk magazine
The Swedish East India Company site (SOIC) currently building East Indiaman Gotheborg
Jeff Zoiks maritime sailing directory
Thad Koza's tallship site
Sea Dragon Schooner Links site
Tall ships International - Link to Thad's book and Tall ship Calendar
The South Pacific Organizer for legendary Pacific voyages, including voyages on tall ships
Sail training organisations
American Sail Training Association A site for American sail training programmes
Association of Sea Training Organisations The Association of Sea Training Organisations - is an "umbrella" association which exists to represent the major sail training schemes in Great Britain. This is a directory of: the member organisations; the ships; the voyages; the crews; contact information; and links to the organisations' own homepages
Australian Sail Training Association: A voluntary Sail training organisation that aims to foster opportunities for young Australians and New Zealanders to discover their inner strengths and potential through a structured “Sail Training” experience of an adventure at sea in a tall ship
Jubilee Sailing Trust Where physically disabled and able-bodied people share the challenge of crewing a tall ship at sea. Southampton, England.
L'Association Francaise des Amis des Grands Voiliers An organization whose goals include promoting sail training courses aboard tall ships from different countries.
Pacific Rim Foundation - Sailing Training Organisation based out of San Francisco, actively involved in the West Coast 2002 Tall Ships challenge.
Queensland Sail Training Association a non-profit organisation devoted to introducing young people to the benefits of tall ship sailing operating between Cairns and Sydney, Australia.
Sail Training International - An International Organisation for Sail Training Organisations
Sausalito Tall Ships Society The Sausalito Tall Ships Society (STSS) is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating people in traditional nautical skills and supporting the operation and preservation of traditional sailing vessels, particularly tall ships. We were particularly grateful to them for their support and friendship during our visit to San Francisco in 2005.
Sail Training Association (STA) Headquarters of the Sail Training Association. (UK).
Southampton and Salisbury branch of STA Includes unofficial description of STA, and also description of vessels STS Sir Winston Churchill and STS Malcolm Miller.
Americas' Sail An organization dedicated to promoting public tall ship events and festivals and an exchange of cultural experiences between, but not limited to, North and South America.
Northwest Schooner Society The Northwest Schooner Society was established in 1994 to preserve schooners and to introduce more people to the thrill of sailing classic ships. Currently, they operate the schooners Zodiac and Martha.
Svenska Kryssarklubbens Seglarskola The Swedish Cruising Club Sail Training Foundation (english) which operates three traditional sailing vessels vessels, Gratitude, Gratia and Atlantica.
Sailing Issues Marine navigation courses - Recommended by RYA - ISAF and ASA sailing schools
Links to other Tall Ships
Acknowledgement - these have been sourced by referencing the above sites as a starting point, with particular thanks to Mark Rosentein
Adventure
Adventuress
A.J. Meerwald A 1928 as an oyster dredger currently sailing the Delaware Bay and River and Coastal New Jersey, with the object of promoting ecological and historical awareness
Alexander von Humboldt
Alvei
Schooner America The 1995 reproduction.
American Pride A 130ft 3-masted schooner out of Long Beach, California - we encountered her when we visited Twin Harbour, Catalina in 2005.
Amerigo Vespucci
Amorina
The schooner Anna Rogde The ruby of North Norwegian coastal culture
Schooner Appledore Operated by BaySail, and located in Bay City, Michigan and sails primarily on the Saginaw Bay and Lake Huron.
The Argus, Sea Scout Traing vessel from Newport Beach, CA. This was R.Tucker Thompson's first ship and we have been privileged to meet her and her crew both in 2002 and 2005.
S.T.V. Asgard II
T.S. Astrid Home Page
Batkivschnaya a Ukrainian Tall Ship that we met in 2002 on the West Coast. She sailed to New Zealand and then on to Australia
Batavia
Schooner Bill of Rights and her Blog: When we sailed with her she was being sold by LAMI and set to head off to Puerto Rico however the deal fell through and we are unclear what is happening, although the blog is a good start.
The Blarney Pilgrim - a delightful vessel owned by the smooth talking, rum drinking, folksong singing Paddy Hernon, and equally delightful character. She is based in Victoria, BC and we enjoyed Paddy's hospitality on board in Vancouver in 2005.
Bluenose II
Bounty
Bytown Brigantine Foundation
Californian a beautiful schooner owned by the San Diego Maritime Museum. We enjoyed sailing with her down the West Coast in 2005. and meeting her Captain, Chuck.
Sailing Yacht Canada
Christian Radich Norway's grandest sailing ambassador
Clearwater Replica of a Hudson River Sloop. Clearwater conducts environmental education, advocacy programs and celebrations to protect the Hudson River
Clipper City Sailing out of Baltimore, Maryland.
Concordia The classroom of Class Afloat.
USS Constitution Old Ironsides - Boston, Mass.
Crosswind Charters Canadian Tall Ship Sailing on the Providence, British Columbia
Cutty Sark Permanently at 'anchor' overlooking the River Thames, Greenwich, England.
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Danmark
Dar Mlodziezy The Dar Mlodziezy (Gift of Youth) is a training ship for the Gdynia Maritime Academy, Poland
U.S. Coast Guard Barque Eagle
U.S.S. Constellation
Frigate D. Fernando II e Gl—ria The last Frigate to server under sail in the Portugese Navy. Now a museum ship in Lisbon.
Eendracht The Netherlands.
Elissa Information on Elissa from the Texas Seaport Museum.
Endeavour The Endeavour is a full scale sailing replica of the original HM Bark Endeavour in which Captain James Cook made his first historic world voyage of discovery. Rusell Harris met Tod Thompson while working on her when she was being built in Whangarei, and the rest as they say, is history.
Ernestina
Bergant'n Goleta Esmeralda (6ta)
S/VEstelle An ex-steam/sail trawler which has been renovated and rebuilt into a 3-masted schooner. Based in Findland.
Bark Europa Originally, the German lightship Senator Brockes, built in 1911. We sailed with her in Korea and across to Canada and down the West Coast in 2002.
Eye of the Wind a site with voyage logs for the Eye of the Wind dating back to the 1990s.
Exy Johnson - or "Sexy Exy" as she is affectionally known - a beautiful Brigantine, sister ship to Irving Johnson, both owned by the Los Angeles Maritime Institute and used for sail training. She sailed with us in California in 2005.
Gazela The Barkentine Gazela, built in Portugal in 1883 of stone pine and now sailing out of Philadelphia.
Georg Stage
Gorch Fock
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Half Moon Replica of Henry Hudson's Half Moon (Halve Maen).
Schooner Harvey Gamage The schooner Harvey Gamage offers programs of sea education for the youth of America in cooperation with South Street Seaport.
The Schooner Hindu, Provincetown, Massachusetts, USA
T/S Havden Swedish sail training vessel.
Hawaiian Chieftain formerly of Sausalito, California. She was sold and relocated to the East Coast but following the death of her owner has now been purchased by the Greys Harbour Historical Society, owner of the Lady Washington.
Irvine Johnson- Sister ship to Exy Johnson owned by LAMI. She was being repaired in 2005 after grounding in Oxnard Harbour, so we never sailed with her, however we are fortunate have a turned wood bowl of Purple Heart from her keel.
Isaac H. Evans Sails on Penobscot Bay, Maine.
The SchoonerJ & B St. John's Harbour, NF, Canada.
STS Jean de la Lune Scotland
Schooner J. & E. Riggin Cruising the islands of Midcoast Maine.
Jens Krogh Jens Krogh is a training vessel constructed in 1899 in wood.
Kaisei built in Poland and formerly a Sail Training ship from Japan, she has recently been purchased by Ocean Voyages of Sausilito. We sailed with her in 2002, when she was owned by STJ and in 2005.
Kalmar Nyckel
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Lady Ellen
The Lady Washington - a favourite of ours. We sailed with herand her crew in 2005, visitiing ports in Washington State and British Columbia.
S.T.S. Leeuwin The S.T.S. Leeuwin is a tall ship doing adventure holidays and youth development in Western Australia
Matthew Reproduction of John Cabot's ship.
Morning Star Trust The Morning Star Trust is a Christian sail training organisation based in Chatham Historic Dockyard on the River Medway. The Trust operates a 62ft gaff rigged ketch Morning Star of Revelation taking young people sailing in the Thames Estuary, off the East Coast, and, weather permitting, further afield to ports in France, Belgium and Holland.
Nathaniel Bowditch Sailing off the coast of Maine.
U.S. Brig Niagara
North End Shipyard Schooners North End Schooners is a loose association of 2 traditional wooden sailing vessels, Heritage and, American Eagle. They are located in Rockland, Maine and are dedicated to preserving Maine's maritime heritage by offering windjammer cruises that allow passengers to experience life at sea.
Lewis R. French Coasting schooner launched in 1871 cruising each year from Memorial Day to Columbus Day from Camden, Maine.
Buque Escuela Fragata A.R.A."Libertad" Argentine barque.
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Madeline Madeline is a reconstruction of a mid 19th century fore and aft schooner built by the Maritime Heritage Alliance, a non profit organization based in Traverse City, Michigan.
Mamie A. Mister Oyster Skipjack sailing in the Chesapeake.
Mot BŠdttre Vetande, MBV MBV operates three sail training vessels: Hawila, Astrid Finne, and soon Gunilla.
U.S. Brig Niagra Reconstruction of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry's flagship in the battle of Lake Erie. Sailing out of Erie, Pennsylvania.
S.T.V.One and All Australia.
Oosterschelde A three-masted topsail schooner which allows interested parties to participate as passengers on cruises to distant destinations.
HMCSOriole 102 ft ketch owned by the Canadian Navy and used for training of Regular and Reserve Canadian Navy members. We raced against her in 2005 in the ASTA race from Victoria to Port Townsend.
Picton Castle The 178 foot 3-masted steel barque will be starting an 18 month round the world voyage westward bound in the tropics with expense sharing crew and cargo. Getting underway October 1997.
Pilgrim A full-sized replica of the square-rigged vessel on which Richard Henry Dana sailed into Dana Point Harbor. Owned by the Ocean Institute.
Pilgrim of Newport An accurate replica of a 118' topsail schooner from the 1770's that does mostly educational programs with the Catalina Island Marine Institute and the Orange County Marine Institute in southern California.
Pride of Baltimore II
The Continental Sloop Providence A 110' foot replica of a 1775 War Sloop, currently sailing out of Providence, Rhode Island.
S/V Quinnipiack A two-masted, gaff-rigged centerboard schooner operated by Schooner, Inc., a non-profit marine education organization dedicated to the conservation of the environment, particularly Long Island Sound and the rivers of Connecticut.
Roald Amundsen A 50 metre brig run by LebenLernen auf Segelschiffen e.V.
HMS Rose
Roseway Last of the Gloucester Grand Banks schooners in regular service. Roseway sails the coast of New England summers and the Caribbean winters. Individual & Group inquiries invited. Offshore re-positioning trips spring and fall.
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St. Lawrence II Operated by Brigantine Inc., a non-profit youth program for boys and girls, age 13 to 18, which started in 1953 and is one of the oldest sail training programs in North America. Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
S.A.L.T.S. Society Sail and Life Training Society is non-profit Christian organization that is dedicated to youth training under sail. They operate the vessels Pacific Swift and Pacific Grace. Home port for all vessels is Victoria, BC, Canada.
Sant Juan Bautista Replica of vessel used in Japan's first diplomatic mission to Europe in 1613. Dockside in Miyagi, Japan.
Schooner, Inc. Schooner is a private, non-profit marine education organization dedicated to the conservation of the environment, particularly Long Island Sound and the rivers of Connecticut, and appreciation of their culture, history and future. They operate the 91-foot sailing research vessel Quinnipiack.
Sea Education Association (SEA) Offer opportunities in education, combining the worlds of science and humanities with a once-in-a-lifetime experience on a sailing vessel at sea. Operate the SSV Westward and SSV Corwith Cramer.
Buque Escuela Simon Bolivar Page of BE-11 Simon Bolivar Venezuelan Tall Ship.
Skibladner II
Soren Larsen - based in New Zealand but regularly voyaging around the Pacific and around the world
Sšrlandet
SoundWaters The schooner used by SoundWaters, a nonprofit environmental education organization dedicated to the restoration and preservation of Long Island Sound and its watershed through hands-on learning and public awareness.
STS Spirit of New Zealand Spirit of Adventure Trust. Specialises in Youth training voyages. New Zealand based.
Spirit of Massachusetts
Stahlratte Owned by the association "Verein zur Forderung der Segelschiffahrt e.v." Stahlratte was built in 1903 in Holland as a sailinglogger and since 1984 has been sailing in international waterways.
Star of India - we were privileged to witness the Star sailing as part of the Parade of Sail during the San Diego Maritime Festival during 2002. A rare occurrence but magificant.
Statsraad Lehmkuhl
Stephen Taber Sailing out of Rockport, Maine.
Star Clippers
HMS Surprise - now owned by the San Diego Maritime Institute and moored on the Embarcadero.
Swan fan Makkum Brigantine sailing out of the Netherlands.
Swift of Ipswich - another LAMI vessel based in San Pedro. Currently needing work to reach USCG survey, sadly so she looks lonely.
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SSV Tabor Boy 29 meter schooner owned by Tabor Academy, Marion, MA.
Talofa Tall ship: a schooner based in Baja Mexico (complete with hot tub on the deck :-). Owned by Betsy and Cactus Bryan and lovingly restored and refitted by them. Available for charter sails in Baja. We enjoyed their company down the west coast in 2005.
The Schooner Thomas E. Lannon Day sailing out of Gloucester, Massachusetts.
The Schooner Timberwind The Schooner Timberwind sails for 3, 4, and six day cruises on the coast of Maine. Traditional sailing at it's best with no engine on board and woodstove cooking.
Toronto Brigantine Run the STV Pathfinder and TS Playfair, 22m (72') brigantines
Traverse Tall Ship Co. Operates the schooners Manitou and Malabar out of Traverse City, Michigan in lakes Michigan and Huron.
Victory Chimes Three-masted schooner part of the Maine Windjammer fleet.
STS Young Endeavour Australia's sail training ship, operated for the Young Endeavour Youth Scheme by the Royal Australian Navy.
Zodiac Based in Seattle, Washington, and is available for day sails as well as longer sailing retreats on Puget Sound and Lake Washington.
