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Tall Ships Races. Italian tall ship Amerigo Vespucci in New York Harbor, 1976. The Tall Ships Races are races for sail training "tall ships" (sailing ships). The races are designed to encourage international friendship and training for young people in the art of sailing. The races are held annually in European waters and consists of two racing ...
Christian Radich won the first race of the Tall Ships Race 2010 in Class A, from Antwerp to Skagen in Denmark, a distance of 787 km (489 mi) just under two days with an average speed of 10.2 knots (11.7 mph; 18.9 km/h), with the corrected time of 1 day, 4 hours, 29 minutes, and 44 seconds, and won the overall race 2010, making this the ship's ...
The Tall Ships Challenge is an annual event organized by Tall Ships America alternating in a three year cycle between the Great Lakes, the Pacific and the Atlantic coasts of North America . The event draws hundreds of thousands of people to witness tall ships from the age of sail and allows participants to interact with the crews of different ...
The Parade of Sail where the tall ships sail up the Piscataqua River to Portsmouth, will take place on Thursday, Aug. 11 starting at 10:15 a.m. Tall ships: Sail Portsmouth festival to return in ...
Tall Ships Parade at Kiel Week, the world's biggest regatta and sailing event (2009) International 420 Class Dinghy regatta, 2005 Regatta of cruising yachts in front of Laboe, 2003 Amphitrite, Ubena von Bremen, and Roald Amundsen in 2007, forming part of the annual tall ship fleet at Kiel Week Tall ships attracting visitors in port during Kiel Week 2006 Fairs and events as part of festival at ...
Also, during the Tall Ships race period, 'Royalist' can visit other countries of Europe. She is also a guest at Brest Festival, FR. For around four or five weeks of the year, for The Tall Ships' Races, Royalist becomes a racing ship. During this period, only cadets who are over 16 years of age are allowed to crew her.
A tall ship from above anchored off of Newlyn in Cornwall. Group of "tall ships" at Hanse Sail 2010. A tall ship is a large, traditionally- rigged sailing vessel. Popular modern tall ship rigs include topsail schooners, brigantines, brigs and barques. "Tall ship" can also be defined more specifically by an organization, such as for a race or ...
Flying Cloud was a clipper ship that set the world's sailing record for the fastest passage between New York and San Francisco, 89 days 8 hours. The ship held this record for over 130 years, from 1854 to 1989. Flying Cloud was the most famous of the clippers built by Donald McKay. She was known for her extremely close race with Hornet in 1853 ...