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Sailing from Harlingen to Terschelling

Sailing from Harlingen to Terschelling 2023

At the end of each sailing season there are still some attractive regattas for traditional sailing ships on the coast of the Netherlands ...

Hanse Sail Rostock 2023

Hanse Sail Rostock 2023

The Hanse Sail in Rostock was once again a summer festival with beautiful highlights, sailing ships and sailing in storms or lull. It started with ...

Rumregatta Flensburg 2023

42nd Rumregatta 2023 in Flensburg

The Rumregatta is the start of the season for traditionally rigged sailing ships in Germany every year. Ship lovers don't want to miss it. ...

Kuiper-Brandarisrace 2022

Kuiper-Brandarisrace 2022

For a number of years now, when my time permits and enough vacation days are left, I've been trying to finnish the sailing season at one of the regattas ...

Zeesenboot regattas in Bodstedt and Althagen 2022

Zeesenboot regattas in Bodstedt and Althagen 2022

This year I once again took the opportunity to see Zeesenboots. Thanks to the mediation of a friend, I was even able to go on a boat ...

Hanse Sail 2022 in Rostock

Hanse Sail 2022 in Rostock

In Rostock they speak of "return to old strength" and self-confidently designate themselves as "the largest traditional sailing event in the world". ...

30 years Fêtes Maritimes de Brest and Temps Fête Douarnenez

30 years Fêtes Maritimes de Brest and Temps Fête Douarnenez

The fascination that comes from sailing events in France has lured me back to Brittany for years. Here you can see mainly French sailing ships...

41. Rumregatta 2022 in Flensburg

41st Rumregatta Flensburg 2022

The sailing ships return. There are events again. We had to wait two years for it. Now the 41st Rumregatta took place in Flensburg, with everything what goes with it ...

>Maritime Days 2021 in Bremerhaven

Maritime Days 2021 in Bremerhaven

The Maritime Days 2021 took place in Bremerhaven in August under special conditions. What was planned as the Lütte Sail 2021 (Small Sail) and finally had to be canceled ...

Hanse Sail 2021 in Rostock

Hanse Sail 2021 in Rostock

A small Hanse Sail took place in Rostock in August. Finally watching sailing ships again! We have waited for this a long time. Optimistically different, that was an official motto. ...

Rumregatta in Flensburg

Rumregatta in Flensburg

Every year on the Saturday after Ascension Day at 11 a.m. a loud gun shot sounds in the bay of Flensburg. Everyone who looks at the water then sees more than 100 gaff-rigged traditional saiöing ships ...

Hajkutter Festival og Regatta from Nysted to Rostock

Hajkutter Festival og Regatta from Nysted to Rostock

Words have got around that the operators of Hajkutters on the German and Danish Baltic Sea coasts have been celebrating a special kind of family reunion for several years in Nysted. There are of course the ships ...

Hanse Sail Rostock

Hanse Sail Rostock

Every year on the 2nd weekend in August, more than 100 sailing ships arrive in Rostock to celebrate a maritime festival with up to one million visitors on the river Warnow over four days. ...

Kuiper-Brandarisrace

Kuiper-Brandarisrace

Brandaris is the name of the lighthouse on the Dutch North Sea island of Terschelling. It is also the oldest lighthouse in the Netherlands and he gave his name ...

Klipperrace Enkhuizen

Klipperrace Enkhuizen

Since 1975 the Enkhuizer Watersportvereniging "Almere" and the Commissie Enkhuizer Klipperrace organise a regatta for Dutch klippers and similar sailing ships. The starting point ...

Zeesbootregatta Bodstedt

Zeesenboot regatta Bodstedt

The regatta for Zeesenboots in Bodstedt, which is always held on the first weekend in September, is the oldest and, based on the number of participating Zeesenboots, ...

Fischerregatta Althagen

Fischerregatta Althagen

At the end of the series of Zeesenboot events in various ports in the Darss-Zingst Bodden Chain, the Fischerregatta takes place every year on the third weekend in September in Althagen. ...

Fêtes maritimes internationales de Brest

Fêtes maritimes internationales de Brest

Since 1992, the French city of Brest has been hosting an international maritime festival of superlatives every four years. On seven days in July always around the French national holiday, ...

Temps fête Douarnenez

Temps fête Douarnenez

The small fishing town of Douarnenez on the Breton coast hosts a maritime summer festival every two years since 1986. Mainly regional traditional sailing ships ...

Smack and Barge Race

Smack & Barge Races

The east coast of England is home of the Essex Smacks, former fishing boats used to catch oysters. A characteristic of the cutter or ketch rigged boats is a ...

Festivals of medieval sailing ships

Festivals of medieval sailing ships

The fact that the Hanseatic city of Wismar is very keen to present its maritime past and present is something that anyone can see who visits one of the annual ...

The Tall Ships Races

The Tall Ships Races

The Tall Ships Races - from 1973 to 2003 under the name Cutty Sark Tall Ships Races - are a long-distance regatta for sailing ships with mostly young crews up to 25 years of age. ...

Sail Bremerhaven

Sail Bremerhaven

Every five years the port city of Bremerhaven celebrates the Sail Bremerhaven. This major maritime event takes place alongside a line starting at the ...