Stavros Niarchos -Tall Ship West Coast and English Channel Adventure- 5 days for only £399

Tall Ship Tasters - Ideal for Gift Vouchers

A brilliant chance to try sailing on a Tall Ship as guest crew and a great gift or present at an affordable price.

Classic Sailing also sell gift vouchers which can be used on any vessel we promote. If your partner or friend has been romantising about running way to sea on a square rigged sailing ship for years, then a Classic Sailing gift voucher might just nudge them to give it a go.

Short Tall Ship Tasters in the UK

The best way to find your sea legs on a tall ship for the first time is to chose a coastal or island hopping voyage with plenty of short hops between ports. You will still probably get night sailing and a taste of offshore open seas, but there will be plenty of sail handling as you go in and out of port, and a welcome chance to enjoy a drink ashore with your new found friends, or wander ‘lonely as a cloud’ on solid land.

British Brig Stavros S Niarchos offers 2-4 day tall ship tasters from UK ports which are an ideal introduction to tall ship sailing without travelling too far afield.

Open to all Nationalities

Even if you live in mainland Europe, the current weakness of the British Pound Stirling makes these short voyages very affordable to via a cheap flight or via Eurostar trains or cross channel ferries. The working language on board is English, but once the ship starts sailing, everything is very practical and you learn by action more than words.

2 Night Tall Ship Experiences

These are the shortest real voyages on a Tall Ship this year throughout our fleet. Whilst you can get fully involved with the sailing on a day sail, living on board a ship overnight with your new shipmates, standing an anchor watch for an hour or actually sailing through the night and having to get up for your 4 hour watch under the stars makes your feel more like a sailor at the end.

3 - 4 Night Adventures

You will be amazed how it all starts to make sense after 3 or 4 days and nights on board. Whilst the ships training programme assumes you are a newcomer to square rig sailing, these voyages are such good value they attract experienced tall ship sailors, professional seamen, coastguards and lifeboat crew, yachts men and women and traditional boat sailors who just want a bit of salty wind through their hair. Many come for a chance to climb the rigging on a proper tall ship or steer a 500 ton windjammer for the first time.

Also living  on board for 3-4 nights gives you a real flavour of what a longer adventure might be like. Classic Sailing has some amazing sailing and wildlife expeditions on tall ships in Antarctica and the Arctic, Long ocean passages in the Pacific, South and North Atlantic, Tall ships races in the Mediterranean and Canadian Great Lakes so if you want a big adventure but need to test out your sea legs and stamina first then these are good mini challenges.

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