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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 ...
Tall Ships Challenge. 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 ...
Americas' Sail. Americas' Sail is a Western Hemisphere tall ship race founded in 1992 as a non-profit association of volunteers from the maritime communities of the United States, Canada, Colombia and the Netherlands. Its headquarters are located in Glen Cove, New York.
Festival, from Aug. 25-28, will include U.S. Brig Niagara, Lettie G. Howard and Pride of Baltimore II. About 10 ships expected overall.
USCGC. Eagle. (WIX-327) USCGC Eagle (WIX-327), formerly Horst Wessel and also known as Barque Eagle, is a 295-foot (90 m) barque used as a training cutter for future officers of the United States Coast Guard. She is one of only two active commissioned sailing vessels in the United States military today, along with USS Constitution which is ...
SAIL Amsterdam. SAIL Amsterdam in 2005. SAIL Amsterdam is a maritime event held once every five years in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Tall ships from all over the world visit the city to moor in its eastern harbour. [1] The 2020 event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rhianwen Watkins. August 8, 2022 at 11:26 AM. PORTSMOUTH — Sail Portsmouth returns to the city Aug. 11-16, bringing tall ships to the city for the first time since 2019. The festival was ...
The Marques was a British-registered barque that sank during the Tall Ships' Races in 1984. The Marques was built in Valencia, Spain, in 1917, as a polacca -rigged brig. She was used to carry fruit from the Canary Islands to northern Europe. Damaged during World War II, she was repaired in 1947 and subsequently used in the Mediterranean.