Our RIB had a full complement of photographers so moving around the boat wasn’t an option. I was sitting at the back where the water seemed to collect, caused by the forward motion of the vessel or perhaps I needed to lose a few pounds, either way it kept my feet cool. Looking back it was almost a flat calm, then just a whisper of a breeze, enough to carry the ships over the line, Trekronor and Georg Stage leading the fleet in the bright sunshine as they passed close to the No Go Zone. The Class A ships went first as usual but the light winds were more suited to the smaller vessels. Viewed bow on, it was easy to see that the different classes in the fleet would eventually mingle, viewed from aft they looked as if they were sailing off the edge of the world.
Swedish Brig Trekronor and Danish Full Rigger Georg Stage passing the ‘No Go Zone’
Georg Stage and Trekronor
Swedish East Indiaman Gotheborg
Swedish East Indiaman Gotheborg, Dutch Schooner Gulden Leeuw, Swedish Brig Trekronor, Dannish Full Rigger Georg Stage and German Brig Roald Amundsen
Mexican Barque Cuauhtemoc, British Barque Tenacious and Dutch Schooner Wylde Swan
Barque Tenacious
Barque Tenacious
German Barque Alexander von Humboldt II
Norwegian Barque Statsraad Lehmkuhl, Russian Full Rigger MIR, German Barque Alexander von Humboldt II, Pelican of London and Finish Schooner Albanus
Norwegian Barque Statsraad Lehmkuhl, Dutch Clipper Brig Morgenster, British Barque Tenacious, Russian Full Rigger MIR, German Barque Alexander von Humboldt II and Pelican of London
Dutch Clipper Brig Morgenster, Norwegian Full Rigger Christian Radich, Russian Full Rigger MIR, Swedish Schooner Constantia and Pelican of London
Dutch Clipper Brig Morgenster, Russian Full Rigger MIR and Pelican of London
Dutch Clipper Brig Morgenster, Norwegian Full Rigger Christian Radich, Polish Brig Fryderyk Chopin and Russian Full Rigger MIR
Norwegian Barque Statsraad Lehmkuhl,
Norwegian Barque Statsraad Lehmkuhl,
Dutch Clipper Brig Morgenster, British Barque Tenacious, Mexican Barque Cuauhtemoc, Norwegian Barque Statsraad Lehmkuhl, Omani Barquentine Shabab Oman and Swedish Brig Trekronor
British Brig Stavros S Niarchos and Norwegian Barque Statsraad Lehmkuhl
Norwegian ships Christian Radich and Barque Statsraad Lehmkuhl and Danish Ketch Jens Krogh. Alex II and Tenacious are on the horizon
Finish Schooner Ihana
de Gallant, Morning Star, Maybe,Stavros, Ihana, Constantia, Fryderyk Chopin,Jens Krogh, Pelican of London and Statsraad Lehmkuhl
Lithuanian Schooner Brabander
Lithuanian Schooner Brabander
Norwegian Gaff Cutter Caroline
Danish Schooner Jylland
Danish Schooner Jylland
Loa, Christian Radich, Morgenster and Jens Krogh
Johann Smidt, Statsraad Lehmkul and Christian Radich
Cuauhtemoc, Wylde Swan, Georg Stage, Russian Full Rigger MIR, Eendracht and Cisne Branco
Danish Full Rigger Georg Stage
The Swedish Ship Gotheborg
Stasraad Lehmkuhl, Brazillian Full Rigger Cisne Branco, Eendracht, Shabab Oman and MIR
Brazillian Full Rigger Cisne Branco
Brazillian Full Rigger Cisne Branco
Brazillian Full Rigger Cisne Branco and the Dutch Schooner Gulden Leeuw
Danish Schooner LOA
German Brig Roald Amundsen
The view from the STI race team boat
The view from the STI race team boat
The view from the STI race team boat
The view from the STI race team boat
The Swedish Ship Gotheborg
Morgenster, Cuauhtemoc and Tenacious
Alexander von Humboldt, Morgenster, Tenacious ,Cuauhtemoc, Wylde Swan and Statsraad Lehmkuhl
Statsraad Lehmkuhl, Christian Radich and MIR
Statsraad Lehmkuhl, Morgenster, Alexander von Humboldt II, Tenacious and Cuauhtemoc
Norwegian Full Rigger Christian Radich and the Russian Full Rigger MIR
Norwegian Full Rigger Christian Radich and the Russian MIR and Norwegian Barque Statsraad Lehmkuhl
Alex II, Tenacious, Danish Ketch Jens Krogh and Cuauhtemoc
Norwegian Barque Statsraad Lehmkuhl,Danish Ketch Jens Krogh, Alex II and Tenacious
Lithuanian Schooner Brabander
Polish Brig Fryderyk Chopin, MIR and Cuauhtemoc
Statsraad Lehmkuhl under the Jib boom of Fryderyk Chopin
German Barque Alexander von Humboldt II and Russian Full Rigger MIR
Wylde Swan, Georg Stage and Cuauhtemoc
Eendracht, Pelican, Christian Radich, Alex II and Shabab Oman under the jib boom of the Swedish Ship Gotheborg
Brazillian Full Rigger Cisne Branco
Bermudan Sloop, Flamingo, Great Britain
Finish Ketch Valborg
