News about sailing ships and festivals

Whenever the Rum Regatta, the first sailing event of the year, takes place very late, I get impatient and count the days. ...

Since 1992, a major maritime festival has been celebrated in Brest on the French Atlantic coast, which combines many superlatives. ...

The autumn meeting of the "Freunde des Gaffelriggs" association is traditionally organised in Glückstadt and combined ...

At the beginning of September I went to Bodstedt, a small village at the coast of Mecklenburg Western-Pommerania. The harbor is known ...

Hanse Sail - that always means an exciting state of emergency in Rostock and Warnemünde. ...

My impressions of this year's Hajkutter Regatta on the day before the Hanse Sail should generate a little...

If you look at the old editions of the Flensburg Harbour Journal, you can learn a lot about the origins of the Rumregatta, which is now considered the largest event...

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

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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

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, ...

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. ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 - 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. ...

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