Friday, September 12, 2008


This is the gorch fock 2 it is a military german navy vessel. It is used to teach traditionnel seamanship. Because of the imposing law that every male most atleast do 9months of military training. For the ones who join the navy they have the oppurtunity to go aboard the Gorch fock the train. This vessel travels the atlantic, artic and the indian ocean. The men aboard must follow the original system watch, they learn the lines,maneuvers and system of the sip

Monday, September 8, 2008

This is the barque Europa it was built by the deutch in 1894 and was built for the nitrate trade. Europa is one of the few last surviving cape horner travellers. Cape horn is in the lowest point of south america and was the most dangerous route to be taken by ships. Many ships that were part of the nitrate trade were sunk because of the weather in cape horn. Europa was one of the few that was able to cross and survive the rigerous weather of the horn. Europa has been refitted multiple times from a fully-rigged ship to a barque, to this day she remains to be a barque(square sails on the foremast and the mast and has fore and aft sails on the mizzen mast). Today Europa is still in service and her purpose is sail training in the antartic and the oceans.

Friday, September 5, 2008

These are the ships of today

Information on multiple sailling ships of today