Friday 6 August 2010

Tall Ships 2010


Sailing ships began to arrive in Harlepool today for the  Tall Ships Races 2010 having sailed across the North Sea from Kristiansand in Norway. The ships will be berthed at Hartlepool until  Tuesday 10th August 2010.

One of the first arrivals was the Wylde Swan  a two mast topsail schooner from the Netherlands; its young crew performed an amazing  co-ordinated dance to a throbbing disco beat as they entered port, which enlivened the grey and overcast day:


The Wylde Swan was preceded by the Norwegian Christian Radich


The Christian Radich  is a full rigged three masted steel hulled vessel and was built in Sandefjord in June 1937.

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