25 CLASSIC CHARTERS
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RYA COURSES
If you are new to sailing, you might as well start in style, on a classic boat. Or you might be looking to trade up from a bleach bottle to a gaffer. And a wooden gaffer is a very different thing to a plastic sloop. Either way, you’ll learn more on a classic, you’ll have a better time and you’ll look better pulling into port.
Annabel J, pilot cutter 54ft of steel, luxury pilot cutter on the South Coast. Tel: +44 (0)7766 138288
www.annabel-j.oc.uk
Morwenna, pilot cutter (right) RYA courses, days with Tom Cunliffe, Fastnets and more. Based Solent. Tel: +44 (0)845 034 5388,
www.traditional-sailing.com
Golden Vanity RYA courses on a Brixham sailing trawler. Tel: +44 (0)1803 883355
www.trinitysailing.co.uk
15 14 US WINDJAMMER
Charter the wooden Maine coast in two real, old working schooners: the Mercantile (1916) and Grace Bailey (1882), which took granite to New York to build Grand Central Station.
Maine Windjammer Cruises Mercantile, Grace Bailey and the smaller, modern Mistress. Eastern seaboard, USA. Tel: +1 (207) 236 2938
www.mainewindjammercruises.com
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TALL SHIPS
If a Tall Ship and a star to steer her by is all you ask, your dream is a very achievable one. See our feature The Lord Nelson and the Jubilee Sailing Trust on p64 – and there are plenty more, like the Irish famine ship replica, the Jeanie Johnston. You will have the chance to climb the mast like a mariner of old – which requires a good height for heights – but the view from up there is utterly epic.
Jeanie Johnston (above) Tel: +353 (0)1 473 0111
www.jeaniejohnston.ie
Jubilee Sailing Trust Tel: +44 (0)23 8044 9108
www.jst.org.uk
Tall Ships Races
www.sailtraininginternational
Stad Amsterdam Tall Ship charter is generally by single berths, but you could charter the entire Stad Amsterdam with 30 friends. It’ll cost about £300 pppd, but for this you get a 250ft (76m) clipper replica capable of 17
THE POLES From Essex to 800 north is quite
a leap, but that’s just the route plied by the three-masted gaff-rigged Trinovante. And if that’s not extreme enough, you can sail the three-masted barque Europa all the way to the remotest sport on earth: Antarctica.
Trinovante Tel: +44 (0)7977 594649
www.schoonersail.com
Europa Tel: +31 10281 0990
www.barkeuropa.com
Northsailing (left) Whale-watching off Iceland in old, oak fishing schooners. Five boats. Tel: +354 464 7272,
www.northsailing.is
STEFFAN MH
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