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Participating Ships An integral part of the training of the United States Coast Guard Academy, aboard the Eagle cadets are able to actively utilize their training in navigation, engineering and other maritime skills. Eagle is one of five sister ships built for sail training in Germany in the 1930s and she was included in reparations paid to the United States following the end of World War II. Today, she is maintained and operated by six officers and a crew of 49, stationed on board for two to three years at a time, who annually provide leadership and coaching to more than 700 trainees and 60 short- term temporary crew.
Length: 295’
Beam: 40’
Draft: 17’
Rig: Barque, Three-Masted
Sail Area: 22,245 sq. ft.
Built: 1936; Hamburg, Germany
HomePort: New London, Connecticut
Web site: www.uscga.edu
HMS SURPRISE The HMS Surprise is designed to replicate a 28-gun frigate of Great Britain’s Admiral Nelson era Royal Navy. She served as a sail training vessel for 30 years before getting the call from Hollywood. She was then modified and starred in the 20th Century Fox film “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World” in 2003. Not widely known is that she really did exist, and was not made up for the books or the movie. Both Patrick O'Brian and 20th Century Fox used the actual blueprints from the British Admiralty archives. The Maritime Museum of San Diego purchased the HMS Surprise in 2004 where she is now part of its maritime programs. Length: 179’
Beam: 30’
Draft: 13’
Rig: Full-Rigged Ship
Sail Area: 13,000 sq. ft.
Built: 1970; Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
HomePort: San Diego, California
Web site: www.sdmaritime.org
Crew Blog Site: http://surprisecrew.blogspot.com
A true old-Hollywood celebrity, the HMS Bounty was built for the MGM movie “Mutiny on the Bounty” which retells the famous maritime mutiny of 1789 in the South Pacific. Today, the ship is dedicated to educational development and works closely with various organizations on leadership-learning and youth education-at-sea programs. In 2008, the ship is traveling around the world in commemoration of the 220th anniversary of the original Bounty’s first arrival in Tahiti in 1788. Length: 180’ Beam: 32’ Draft:13’ Rig: Full-Rigged Ship Sail Area: 10,000 sq. ft. Built: 1960; Lunenburg, Nova Scotia Home Port: Greenport, Long Island, New York Web site: www.tallshipbounty.org STS KAISEI  The Kaisei is currently operated by the Ocean Voyages Institute of Sausalito, California. She's traveled more than 40,000 miles since her construction in 1991 as a sail training brigantine for the Sail Training Association of Japan. The STS Kaisei (海星), meaning “Ocean Planet” in the Japanese language, is a fast and capable steel hulled brigantine designed by Zygmunt Choreń and built in Gdańsk, Poland in 1987. Originally commissioned by the Polish Yachting Association as the Zew, she was acquired by the Sail Training Association of Japan (STAJ) and delivered to Japan via the Panama Canal in 1993 following a 16 month maiden voyage under the United Nations flag in which she saw 100-knot (190 km/h) winds off the coast of Scotland and participated in the American Tall Ship Celebration in 1992. Under the Japanese flag, she visited 14 countries and traveled extensively throughout the Pacific in her mission to promote the global community and bring countries and cultures together through the international language of the sea. Sparred Length: 151 feet Beam: 25 feet Class: A
Type: Brigantine Draft: 13 feet Tonnage: 180 Rig Height: Sail area: 8,500 square feet
Web Site: www.oceanvoyagesinstitute.org/ SSV TOLE MOUR
ST/V's EXY JOHNSON & IRVING JOHNSON Completed in May 2002, these twin brigantines were built at the Port of Los Angeles by the Los Angeles Maritime Institute for the TopSail Youth Program. When launched, the vessels and their youthful crew were designated the “Official Tall Ships and Maritime Ambassadors of the City of Los Angeles”. Named after Capt. Irving Johnson and his wife Exy, the ships honor these adventurers who sailed aroud the world seven times with youth crew. The TopSail program recognizes that the shipboard environment is challenging yet nurturing, encouraging exploration and self-reliance and provides life-changing experiences for youth and adults alike. Length: 110.8’
Beam: 21.9’
Draft: 11’
Rig: Brigantine
Sail Area: 4,540 sq. ft.
Built: 2002; San Pedro, California
HomePort: Port of Los Angeles, San Pedro, CA Web site: www.lamitopsail.org CALIFORNIAN  Built 1984 at Spanish Landing in San Diego Bay, the Californian has has an international following as the "official tall ship of the State of California." She is the only ship to ever carry such a prestigious title in this state. The ship has played host to thousands of school children on seagoing educational programs up and down the West Coast, and made educational voyages to Hawaii and Mexico. Californian is a replica of the 1847 Revenue Cutter, the C.W. Lawrence, a stately vessel that patrolled the coast of California keeping law and order. The Revenue Service was a precursor to today's Coast Guard. Sparred Length: 145 feet Class: B Type: Draft: Tonnage: 130 Rig Height: Web Site: www.sdmaritime.org SPIRIT OF DANA POINT  The Spirit of Dana Point is a traditionally built, accurate replica of a 1770's privateer used during the American Revolution. These ships were known for their speed and were used for smuggling and the slave trade. The ship is 118 feet long with a rig height of 100 feet and 5,000 square feet of sail. The Spirit of Dana Point is an excellent platform for our youth to directly experience life at sea as it has been for hundreds of years, and sails with educational programs for over 150 days a year. If the vessel looks familiar, you've likely seen her in numerous movies, documentaries, commercials and catalogs. Sparred Length: 118 feet Class: B Type: replica, Baltimore Clipper schooner Draft: 9' 6" Tonnage: 64 Rig Height: 100 feet Web Site: www.ocean-institute.org SSV ROBER  T C. SEAMANS (Parade of Sail and docking for crew exchange only)Owned by the Sea Education Association (SEA), the vessel was designed by Laurent Giles and built at JM Martinac shipbuilding in Tacoma, Washington. She is a 134-foot steel brigantine and is the most sophisticated oceanographic research/sailing school vessel ever built in the United States. Improvements in design and equipment, including a wet/dry laboratory and larger library, classroom, and computer laboratory, greatly enhance the ship's academic program. Sparred Length: 134 Class: A Type: Brigantine Draft: 12' 3" Tonnage: 300 Rig Height: 110 feet Web Site: www.sea.edu LYNX  Lynx is an interpretation of an actual privateer named Lynx built by Thomas Kemp in 1812 in Fell's Point, Maryland. She was among the first ships to defend American freedom by evading the British naval fleet then blockading American ports and serving in the important privateering efforts. While Lynx has honored the spirit of the original vessel in her design and accouterments, her planning, design and construction have added a healthy infusion of modern technology to help insure safe passage. Launched on July 28, 2001 in Rockport, Maine, past and present converge in this example of America's maritime heritage. Sparred Length: 122 feet Class: B Type: Square topsail schooner Draft: 8' 6" Tonnage: 97 Rig Height: 94 feet Web Site: www.privateerlynx.com PILGRIM  This year marks the Pilgrim’s 60th birthday. The ship is a full size replica of the hide brig immortalized by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. in his American classic seafaring novel "Two Years Before the Mast." Flying fourteen sails, including eight square sails, the Pilgrim maintains a distinctively majestic appearance. Coming to Dana Point in 1981, the vessel serves the Ocean Institute as a powerful educational tool. Thousands of children step aboard the Pilgrim’s decks each school year to participate in one of her many award-winning living history programs. Sparred Length: 130 feet Class: Type: Draft: Tonnage: 64 Rig Height: 98 feet Web Site: www.ocean-institute.org AMERICAN PRIDE
 Originally built as a two-masted “schooner-dragger,” American Pride had a third mast added along with a complete restoration in 1986. She spent more than 40 years commercially fishing in the Grand Banks and George Banks region off New Foundland. American Pride is part of the American Heritage Marine Institute in Long Beach, California, and offers scientific and living history educational programs, sail training, team building and sailing adventures.
Length: 129’ Beam: 22’
Draft:10’
Rig: Schooner, Three-Masted
Sail Area: 4,900 sq. ft.
Built: 1941; Brooklyn, New York
CURLEW
 Designed by the legendary John G. Alden, built in 1926 at Fred F. Pendleton’s shipyard in Wiscasset, Maine. In the ‘40’s, she was donated to the Merchant Marine Academy where she served as a sail-training vessel and saw coastal submarine patrol duty for the Coast Guard during WWII. A pioneer in the Caribbean charter trade, Curlew gained fame in 1962 by surviving a hurricane-like storm that claimed 144 lives, and later cruised extensively in the Central and South Pacific. In 1976, she was meticulously restored in New Zealand and then sailed to Hawaii where she was engaged in inter-island charters. Curlew is a classic wooden boat. Her strong and graceful hull is sheathed in long leaf yellow pine over sturdy frames of white oak. Curlew is permanently berthed in Dana Point Harbor at the Dana Wharf Sportfishing docks. Length: 82’ Beam: 14’9”
Draft:9’6”’
Rig: Schooner
Sail Area: 2054 sq. ft.
Built: 1926
SEAWARD Seaward is an 82’ classic staysail schooner built in 1988 for both comfortable charters in protected waters and for rigorous offshore sailing. She is annually inspected and certified by the U.S. Coast Guard as a passenger vessel for voyages up to 200 miles offshore from Alaska to Panama. She has the highest possible stability rating — for exposed waters — and has a smooth and comfortable motion. Length Overall: 82’
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