Tall Ships 2012
Tall Ships 2012
Ready to sail a Tall Ship - Now You Can
Have you ever dreamed of sailing on a Tall Ship?
No experience needed.
The Gulden Leeuw will be sailing from the beautiful port of Amsterdam. Where you can choose to stay an extra night for free and visit this well-known city. The voyage will take you across the North sea to the Orkney Islands.
The experience of a lifetime.
Celebrate Easter on The Leeuw
The celebrated Dutch class A Tall Ship Gulden Leeuw is returning to Orkney over Easter 2012 and is offering six, 3 hour day and evening sails from Stromness.
The Gulden Leeuw was part of the cruise in company event in July 2011 and there has been much public demand for her to return to Orkney.
The sailing routes each day will be to the Old Man of Hoy for the daytime sails and to Scapa Flow for the evening sails. If the weather is inclement, then Scapa Flow will become the default route.
The ticket price of £50, ( half price for 12 year olds and under) will include live music from local bands of notoriety, a buffet meal and 3 complimentary drinks.
The sailing times are as follows:
Saturday 7th April: 10:00-13:00 and 19:00 - 22:00
Sunday 8th April 10:00-13:00 and 14:30 -17:30
Monday 9th April 14:30-17:30 and 19:00 - 22:00
Full terms and conditions can be found on the reverse of the tickets which can be bought from;
Orkney Ferries Shore Street Kirkwall. ( cash and credit card). 01856 872044
Grooves. Kirkwall. (Cash only). 01856 872239
OTE Stromness. (cash only). 01856 850555
Tickets go on sale from the 16 November.
Tall Ship Images
A selection of the Competition Photographs are available here 
A selection of Photographs by Mike Brookes Roper are available here
A selection of Photographs by Craig Taylor are available here
If you are over 25 and want to crew a Tall Ship this is not a problem as there is no upper age limit for self funding more mature applicants. Contact Brian Kynoch and he will advise on the procedure. Full details of the upcoming 2011 race are available on www.sailtraininginternational.org and www.tallshipsraceslerwick.com.
Relive the Tall Ships visit
AOP (Another Orkney Production ) is pleased to announce the release of its latest DVD, The Tall Ships Visit to Orkney 2011, filmed between July 15 and 19, when over 20 ships taking part in the Tall Ships Races 2011 from Waterford in Ireland to Halmsted in Sweden, visited Orkney.
The race leg from Greenock to Lerwick was called “Cruise in Company,” and allowed participating ships the chance to spend some leisure time in a port en route.
A highly-organized programme of events for the crews, visitors and locals alike was staged throughout Orkney over those four days.
One of the highlights was the “Tall Ships Challenge” where four of the Class A ships — the Eendracht, the Gulden Leeuw, the Sorlandet and the Statsrad Lehmkuhl — sailed from Kirkwall round to Stromness, through Scapa Flow, carrying some 750 passengers between them.
This was the first time that passengers had been able to sail on a Tall Ship other than as crew during a Tall Ships Race.
The DVD captures some of the excitement of those events over the weekend, including the four ships preparing to leave Kirkwall for Stromness.
There are also interviews with Michael Morrison of Orkney Marine Services, journalist Craig Taylor, and Captain Adam Jasser of the Polish ship STS Pogoria, a veteran of previous Tall Ships races, on her first visit to Orkney.
Whilst sailing in Scapa Flow, Captain Jasser and his crew, mainly students from Warsaw University, paid their own personal tribute to the sailors of HMS Royal Oak.
The music featured is The Orcadian Boatman’s Song by J. Stormonth, Farewell to Stromness, Hoy’s Dark and Lofty Isle by J. Aim, Greenland Whale Fishery, all arranged by A. Leonard and performed by the Song Shop Trio, and Here’s tae the Sea, a sea shanty specially written for the weekend by Sarah Jane Gibbon.
The DVD cover photographs are by John Wishart.
It was directed by Moya McDonald and John Hay and produced by AOP.
They are available from Grooves, Shearer’s, the Pier Arts Centre, the Herald Print Shop, the Orkney Archive and Orkney Museum.