The Cutty Sark Tall Ships' Race is a long-distance race for sailing ships. The races were originally sponsored by Berry Brothers and Rudd - marketers of Cutty Sark Scotch Whisky (the Cutty Sark being their trade mark as well as a preserved tea clipper lying at Greenwich in London). The race is held annually in European waters and consists of two racing legs of several hundred nautical miles, and a "cruise in company" between the legs.
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Italian tall ship Amerigo Vespucci in New York Harbor, 1976

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Tall ships

The phrase tall ship was coined to describe the participating ships. Participating vessels are manned by a largely cadet or trainee crew who are partaking in sail training. Trainees are non-professional sailors mostly between 16 and 25 years of age. Thus, tall ship does not describe a specific type of sailing vessel, but rather the purpose of training and sail education to which that vessel is dedicated. Participating ships range from yachts to the large square-rigged training ships run by Navy and fishery authorities of many countries. Tall ship is a somewhat informal collective term for some kinds of sailing ships. ... Sail training in the modern sense is a development of the manning methods of sailing ship operators at the start of the 20th Century. ... This article is about the rigging of ships, and is based on the detailed article in the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica, now in the public domain. ...

The race

The first Cutty Sark Tall Ships' race was held in 1956. It was a race of five of the world's remaining large sailing ships organized by Bernard Morgan, a London lawyer. The race was from Torquay, Cornwall to Lisbon and back, and was meant to be a last farewell to the era of the great sailing ships. Public interest was so intense, however, that race organizers founded the Sail Training International association to direct the planning of future events. Since then Tall Ships' Races have occurred annually in various parts of the world, with millions of spectators. Today, the race attracts more than hundred ships, among these some of the largest sailing ships in existence. 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday. ... See also Torquay, Victoria, in Australia Part of the Torquay seafront at high tide. ... Cornwall (Cornish: Kernow or occasionally Curnow) is a county of England, the part of Great Britains south-west peninsula that is west of the River Tamar, often known as the Cornish peninsula or plateau. ... Lisbon (in Portuguese, Lisboa) is the capital and largest city of Portugal. ...

Sail Training International

Sail Training International (STI) is the international association of some twenty national organisations devoted to promoting "the education and development of young people of all nationalities, religions and social backgrounds, through sail training". Besides organising the Tall Ships' Race, STI and its subsidiary organisations manage trainee programmes aboard sailing ships.

Some ships that have participated

• Amerigo Vespucci — Italian Navy training ship
• Cuauhtémoc, Mexican Navy officer-training ship (winner on two occasions)
• STS Mir - a three-masted Russian training ship.
• Dar Pomorza
• Gorch Fock

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Reference

• Harry Bruce, Tall Ships: an Odyssey (Toronto, 2000)
• American Sail Training Association, Sail Tall Ships (Newport, 2000)

External links

• http://www.sailtraininginternational.org
• http://www.tallshipsraces.com
• http://www.cuttysark2003.com