|
Adventure Under Sail! Take an active part in sailing tall ships, setting & trimming sails, steering, navigating, learning the ways of the sea, while being a trainee crew member.
Scroll down to see the ASTA ships.
In North America and waters beyond, ASTA member vessels serve as real life classrooms at sea.
Youth of all ages regularly embark on voyages of discovery aboard ASTA ships, participating on voyages of several days, weeks - even months, making longer coastal or ocean passages. You will learn while operating the ship and experiencing the joy of adventure under sail.
ASTA member vessels, and the programs they undertake, provide unique opportunities for intensive personal development through real life experience.
You can learn seamanship skills, stewardship, courage, reverence for nature, and leadership. Each trainee’s contribution affects the well-being of all on board. Being absolutely responsible & dependable, and learning to depend on your shipmates, lead to successful teamwork, and to a safe & well-sailed ship.
Each of the ASTA member ships below shares a common denominator: Each uses the wind and sea to teach.
Sail training is not a subject in and of itself, but rather a means to an end. At ASTA we say that sail training is not learning to sail, but learning from sailing, from the ship, from the sea, and perhaps most importantly, from oneself.
|
Arabella
Arabella is not currently sailing scheduled voyages. Call for charter opportunities
Arabella is a lovely 3-masted staysail schooner. She combines t...
Read More
|
| |
|
|
Europa
The bark Europa is well known by blue water sailors. She has sailed in tall ships races in the Atlantic & Pacific oceans, and even in the Great Lakes. This fall & winter she will undertake her third...
Read More
|
| |
|
|
Pride of Baltimore II
Pride of Baltimore II is a reproduction of an 1812-era Clipper privateer. She is Maryland's working symbol of the great natural resources and spectacular beauty of the Chesapeake Bay region, an...
Read More
|
| |
|
|
Mistress
The Mistress is a blend of a traditional schooner and private yacht. The "princess" of our fleet, she was built on Deer Isle, Maine, on the same lines as the old coastal schooners, but with modern acc...
Read More
|
| |
|
|
Manitou
The Tall Ship Manitou is a replica of an 1800’s “coasting” cargo schooner, similar to those that sailed the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean. Specifically designed for passenger service, her hull wa...
Read More
|
| |
|
|
Picton Castle
The barque Picton Castle is a traditionally rigged and operated deep water sail training vessel. She typically undertakes long ocean passages, and has completed four circumnavigations, from Lunenburg...
Read More
|
| |
|
|
Schooner Roseway
Roseway was built in 1925 in Essex, Massachusetts as a private fishing yacht. She was purchased by the Boston Pilot's Association in 1941, and was honored for her exemplary service during Worl...
Read More
|
| |
|
|
Schooner Appledore V
Appledore V is a lovely small (65 feet sparred length), steel-hulled gaff topsail schooner launched in 1992, owned and operated by BaySail, a non-profit educational organization. Her home port...
Read More
|
| |
|
|
Mercantile
The well-loved Mercantile is often referred to as the "Prettiest coaster on the Bay." She was built in 1916, and has been a familiar sight in many local ports for over 80 years. A shoal-draft v...
Read More
|
| |
|
|
Niagara
The US Brig Niagara was built in 1988 as a reconstruction of the warship aboard which Oliver Hazard Perry won the battle of Lake Erie in 1813, during the War of 1812. Her mission is to interpr...
Read More
|
| |
|
|
Lynx
Lynx offers a limited number of opportunities for guest crew to sign on board and experience offshore sailing on a Tall Ship. These voyages are for the true adventurer willing to leave the mode...
Read More
|
| |
|
|
Geronimo
Geronimo is a lovely, modern masthead rigged, centerboard sloop, spreading over 2,000 square feet of sail on a mast 85 feet high. Built in 1998 and designed by the Ted Hood Design Group, Ge...
Read More
|
| |
|
|
Seaward
Seaward is a graceful & sturdy steel-hulled, staysail schooner. She is US Coast Guard-inspected, built in 1988 to the highest standards, and equipped for ocean voyaging. Safe & comfortable, s...
Read More
|
| |
|
|
Schooner Virginia
Virginia is a swift,graceful topsail schooner,a recently (2003) constructed replica of a pilot schooner...
Read More
|
| |
|
|
Soren Larsen
Soren Larsen gives people of all ages the opportunity to sail to some of the most beautiful tropical islands in the world aboard a magnificent square rigger. This brigantine, constructed entir...
Read More
|
| |
|
|
Roald Amundsen
The brig Roald Amundsen offers a traditional sailing experience. Of German registry, she typically sails in the Baltic and North Sea in the summer, and the Canary Islands and Mediterranean in ...
Read More
|
| |
|
|
A.J. Meerwald
A.J. Meerwald is New Jersey's official Tall Ship. She is an authentically restored 1928 Delaware Bay oyster schooner, and today serves as a classroom afloat, teaching everything from the histo...
Read More
|
| |
|
|
Schooner Appledore IV
The Appledore schooners are owned and operated by BaySail, a private, non-profit organization. BaySail supports its Environmental Education and Youth Development programs through public sails, private...
Read More
|
| |
|
|
Sørlandet
Sørlandet is a fully restored 210 foot 1927 Class ‘A’ full-rigged Norwegian tall ship that is the home and classroom for Class Afloat - a high school and university at sea. Class Afloat offers...
Read More
|
| |
|
|
Mystic Whaler
Mystic Whaler is a reproduction of a late 19th century coastal cargo schooner that was designed for the passenger trade by Chubb Crockett of Camden, Maine. She was built in 1967 in Tarpon Spri...
Read More
|
| |
|
|
 |
Call Us Toll Free
1-877-882-4395
 |
We are available Monday thru Friday 9am to 5pm (Eastern Time) to answer any questions you might have, to help you plan your vacation or to assist you in choosing the perfect voyage under sail.
|
 |
Receive our complimentary monthly newsletter filled with in-depth tall ship profiles, news of tall ship events around the world, as well as special offers for unique or promotional voyages. Enter your email address and click to sign-up.
|
|
