The Cover shot shows the race start, close to Port Rush, Northern Ireland.
Pictures in the gallery below taken in the port of Liverpool and at the start line off Port Rush, on the north coast of Ireland in 2008. With light winds, good light and cloud formations for Pelican of London’s first tall ship race. A passage of around 750 nautical miles across the North Atlantic and the Norwegian Sea to the port of Måløy in Norway.
There are some interesting fleet shots and the last pictures of Asgard ll, that I managed to take, before her fateful trip south later the same year. Also some interesting class B vessels, including Constantia, Jolie Brise, Westward Ho and Svanhild.
Slideshow Gallery
Capitan Miranda 
Pelican of London 
Port of Liverpool 
Crew Parade 
Trainees, port of Liverpool 
Early morning, Mersey river 
Cuauhtemoc, parade of sail 
Dar Mlodziezy, passing the Royal Liver building 
MIR, north coast of Ireland 
Christian Radich and Capitan Miranda 
MIR, Alexander von Humboldt and Roald Amundsen 
Sorlandet 
Asgard ll 
Asgard ll 
Cuauhtemoc 
Cuauhtemoc 
Cuauhtemoc 
Dar Mlodziezy 
Shabab Oman, MIR, Stavros, Pogoria and Pelican 
Shabab Oman, MIR, Pelican and Roald Amundsen 
Statsraad Lehmkuhl and Sorlandet 
Statsraad Lehmkuhl 
Roald Amundsen just ahead of TS Royalist 
Morgenster VOF 
Jolie Brise 
Constantia 
Svanhild 
Westward Ho 
Greater Manchester Challenge
