Class B

Spirit of Fairbridge

UK

Spirit of Fairbridge was built in Liverpool between 1981 & 1985 by the Merseyside Trust. The Trust was set up to provide a boat building project for young Merseysiders working under the supervision of craftsmen. Spirit is a 92' replica of a Liverpool pilot schooner, used in the days of sail to guide large merchant ships into the port of Liverpool. Her construction is larch planks on oak frames.

Rupel

Belgium

Rupel was built on the banks of the river Rupel by unemployed youngsters and launched in 1996. The project provided these young people with skills that would help them find jobs more easily.

In the summer, Rupel sails the Belgian coastline and takes part in the Tall Ships' Races and other events in Northern Europe.

Morning Star of Revelation

UK

The Morning Star Trust has been taking people safely to sea under sail for over 25 years

The Trust operates two yachts, Morning Star of Revelation (a 62ft Gaff Ketch) and the training yacht Dayspring a 36ft Bermudan sloop)and specialises in activities to suit the Duke of Edinburgh's Gold Award residential section. Cruising areas include the Thames Estuary, South Coast of England, Belgium, France and Holland.

Moosk

UK

Moosk is a recent entry in the Tall Ships fleet; however she is one of the oldest. She was built as a gentleman's yacht in Falmouth in 1906 to Lloyds' A1 specifications. After a full life with many different owners, she was abandoned during the 1970s on the outskirts of Glasgow. Cremyll Sailing found her hull there in 1999 and started off with the project of rebuilding her completely for sail training with young people for a maximum of 8 trainees on board. The hull was in excellent conditions, considered the lack of care it had experienced. After an extensive rebuild, she was eventually ready to sail in 2001.

Far Barcelona

Spain

The FAR Barcelona, a Norwegian jakt, was built in 1874 and restored at the EL FAR Consortium's shipyard as part of a project to offer professional training in maritime trades. It has played host to some 15,000 hours of training in shipbuilding and maintenance. Its purpose is to bring Barcelona's reclaimed maritime heritage and the values associated with maritime culture to a wide audience.

www.entfarbarcelona.org

Glaciere of Liverpool

UK

The fabulous Glaciere is restored to its former glory having completed a £300,000 restoration project. Since her re-launch, she has enjoyed many miles of sailing around the Irish Sea and West coast of Scotland. Numerous charters have included teaching under-privileged youths how to sail and dive.

Jens Krogh

Denmark

Jens Krogh was built and launched in Frederikshavn, Northern Denmark, in 1899. She is a 38 ton Gaff Cutter and was named after a Danish merchant. In the 1950's, she was sold to an owner who fished her in Aalborg Bay under the name of Ulla-Vita. In 1973, the FDF (Danish Boy's Brigade) in Aalborg completed an extensive refit and restored her to her former glory and original name. Jens Krogh was re-launched on 18 June 1976 and has since competed in The Tall Ships' Races on a regular basis.

Leader

UK

Leader was built in 1892 for William Robbens by the yard of A W Gibbs at Galmpton Creek on the River Dart.
She was one of the "big ketches", a design developed from the original Brixham cutters of the early 19th century. The cutter-rigged boats were known in Devon as "Mumble Bees", ketches of up to 40 tons were "mules" and those over that size were "ketches" or even, perversely, "sloops". Leader represented the pinnacle of the evolution of the sailing trawler.

Etoile

France

Etoile is one of the twins - the other half being the Belle Poule. The ship's schooner design is based on the strudy French fishing boat design circa 1900.

The two sailing ships are part of the French Navy's sail training fleet and regularly appear at tall ships' events mainly in Europe.

Jolie Brise

UK (Guernsey)

Jolie Brise is a 56' gaff rigged pilot cutter that was built in La Havre in 1913. In 1925, she was the first winner of the first Fastnet Race, repeating the success in 1929 and 1930 and is still the only vessel to have won the Fastnet three times.

She is now owned by Dauntsey's School Sailing Club. The school started a sailing club in the 1970s when some pupils placed an advert in the Times saying:"slave gang from Wiltshire offers free labour to owner of embarrassingly large yacht in return for some free sailing". In 1977, Jolie Brise was made available to the club on a long-term lease.

Westward Ho

Faroe Islands

The "Westward Ho" was built in Grimsby 1884, and sold to the Faroes in 1895.With a crew of 20, she fished from the waters of the North Atlantic all the way to Greenland until she was laid up in 1964.After changes in ownership, the "Westward Ho" was restored in 1968 and again in 2005, and today the she has regained her original appearance above deck.

This is the first time she has participated in the Tall Ships' Race.

Svanhild

Norway

Originally built as a single masted ship and converted in 1925 to a ketch rig. Until 1976 she spent her working life as a cargo freighter along the Norwegian coast. After this, Svanhild went into private ownership and in 1985 -1988; a circumnavigation of the Globe was completed. Between 1991 - 2001 an extensive restoration was undertaken under the guidance of the "Svanhild" Foundation and in 2002, two new Perkins engines were installed.