Successful Hanse Sail 2008 | Blog on Fleetmon.com

The weather was our friend during this years Hanse Sail-luckily! About a million of visitors enjoyed this traditional baltic event on the quays of Warnemuende and Rostock Port. 230 sailing vessels from 13 nations proudly showed their countanance and wooden corpus. Thousands of visitors again took the chance to get a closer look at the “Gorch Fock“, “Zobel”, “Braunschweig” and other ships. The “Gorch Fock” will be back in 2009.

The results of the regattas: the “First ship home” from the big ones was the Clipper “Stad Amsterdam“, whilst you have to know that the schonerbrigg “Greif” -being second ship home- has got much less sail area that the dutch vessel. The “Greif” won a neck-and-neck race against the swedish brigantine “Baltic Beauty”. The winner of the single-masted sailing boats is “Stella Maris”. On Saturday especially the viewers in Warnemuende had an awsome picture of the fireworks, because at the same time they had the chance to watch the cruise liner “Regatta” leave the Rostock Port.

We hope that anyone who took the chance to watch all that via Fleetmon also had an great experience and enjoyed the Hanse Sail 2008!

2 thoughts on “Successful Hanse Sail 2008”

MindOpen

September 1, 2008 at 01:32

Yes Käpt’n, You are right Sir! Thanks for correcting.
There is always confusion between the different Gorch Focks (33, 58).
In 2008 only one is sailing, “Gorch Fock II” (1958):

http://www.digital-seas.com/vessel_search/vessel_details/on/drax_gorch_fock_q211210280_0.html

So, the text-link shouldn’t point to Stralsund here.
On the kay there lays the “Gorch Fock I” (1933) ex “Tovarishch”.
Since they are daughter ships anyway, I decide to leave it the way
Almost anything about Tall-Ships is written by Volker Gries on his great site:
http://www.tallship-fan.de/
Best tip for hunting tall-ship info! Lars

Käpt'n Brass

August 22, 2008 at 20:57

Hi Sailors!

There is a little mistake in this article. The visitor at the Hanse Sail 2008 wasn’t the first “Gorch Fock” from 1933, it was the second “Gorch Fock” from 1958. The First Gorch Fock is in Stralsund since 2003.

Gorch Fock I http://www.gorchfock1.de/

Gorch Fock II http://www.gorchfock.de/

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