The Krusenstern
This impressive four-masted ship with huge dimensions is a regular fixture at the Brest maritime festivals. A former cargo ship, it is still in operation as a sail training ship.
| Launch date | 1926 |
| Home port | Kaliningrad (Russia) |
| Length | 114 m |
| Width | 14 m |
| Draft | 6.8 m m |
| Sail surface | 3 500 m2 |
La Creoula
This proud four-masted schooner once sailed the seas to fish for cod on the banks of Newfoundland in Canada. Like the Santa Maria Manuela, the Portuguese schooner is now a training ship.
| Launch date | 1937 |
| Home port | Lisbon |
| Length | 66,90 m |
| Draft | 4,70 m |
| Sail surface | 1 364 m2 |
The Hermione
Its passage in Brest last year was a real success. The replica of the La Fayette frigate which allowed him in 1780 to join the American insurgents in their fight for independence, will make its great return for the greatest joy of visitors.
| Home port | Rochefort |
| Job site | 17 years old |
| Length | 65 m |
| Height | 47 m |
| Sail surface | 2 200 m2 |
| Canons | 28 |
Etoile du Roy
Built in 1996 in Turkey for the needs of a film, the Etoile du Roy is one of the largest traditional French ships and the flagship of the fleet of the shipowner Etoile Marine Croisières. We have to go back to the 18th century to discover the history of its ancestor, a Malouin frigate armed with 20 cannons, which could embark 240 crew members. In times of war, the Admiral of France issued a letter of marque to its captain to go on a race, authorizing him to attack the King's enemy ships.
| Construction | 1996 |
| Home port | Saint-Malo |
| Shipyard | Svendborg (Denmark) |
| Length | 46 m |
| Width | 10 m |
| Draft | 3 m |
| Sail surface | 790 m2 |
Kaskelot
Built in Denmark to supply Greenland, this three-masted barque was bought by British sailor Robin Davies to embark on an adventurous film career with the Square Sail Fleet. With the Earl of Pembroke and the Phoenix,
it is part of a fleet skilfully reconstituted for the needs of the shootings.
| Launch date | 1948 |
| Home port | Bristol |
| Shipyard | Svendborg (Denmark) |
| Length | 47 m |
| Width | 8,5 m |
| Draft | 3,60 m |
| Sail surface | 882 m2 |
La Recouvrance
Launched in 1992, on the occasion of the very first Brest maritime festival, La Recouvrance is the ambassador boat of the city of Brest . This topsail schooner bears the name of the most famous district of Brest, where women waited for the return of their husbands and sons who had gone to sea, praying to Our Lady.
| Launch date | 1992 |
| Home port | Brest |
| Length | 42 m |
| Width | 6,40 m |
| Draft | 3,20 m |
| Sail surface | 430 m2 |
Star of France
The Etoile de France is a topsail schooner built in 1938 in Denmark. Robust coaster launched under the name of Jutlandia, she was first used to transport salt and cod between Iceland, Denmark and Portugal. Acquired by Mickaël Turk in 1983, she even turns in films. It is the shipowner Bob Escoffier who bought her in 2007 and renamed her Etoile de France: since then, she is mainly used as a sail-charter by Etoile Marine Croisières. She is one of the last models in the world of these solid cargo ships, the "baltic traders".
| Construction | 1938 |
| Home port | Saint-Malo |
| Length | 38,70 m |
| Width | 6,60 m |
| Draft | 3,20 m |
| Sail surface | 480 m2 |
The Fox
Present in Brest since the first edition of the Fêtes Maritimes Internationales in 1992, the Renard is a cutter with topsails rebuilt by enthusiasts in memory of the exploits of Robert Surcouf, the most famous privateer of Saint-Malo. The original ship was launched in 1813 and distinguished herself in a legendary battle against an English schooner. Only the mast and sails have been slightly reduced, because in Surcouf's time, privateers, smugglers and customs officers wore extreme canvas surfaces to compete for speed.
| Construction | 1991 |
| Home port | Saint-Malo |
| Length | 30 m |
| Width | 6 m |
| Draft | 2,8 m |
| Sail surface | 450 m2 |
The Avatar
Built for speed, with a fishing boat look to deceive the enemy, the schooner now carries many passengers and the public will be able to identify it at first glance thanks to its green hull.
| Construction | 1941 |
| Home port | Harlingen (The Netherlands) |
| Length | 27,70 m |
| Width | 6,40 m |
| Draft | 2,80 m |
| Sail surface | 450 m2 |
Nao Victoria
Built in Seville for the 1992 World's Fair, Nao Victoria is a faithful replica of the only carrack of Magellan's expedition to have returned to Spain. On September 8, 1522, only 18 men of an expedition that numbered 255 returned to Spain after three years of navigation, completing the first circumnavigation in the world. Without Magellan, who died during his world tour. Five centuries later, a voyage reproduces this first circumnavigation on board the reconstruction of the Nao Victoria, from 2004 to 2006.
| Construction | 1992 |
| Home port | Seville |
| Length | 26 m |
| Width | 6,70 m |
| Draft | 3,30 m |
| Sail surface | 290 m2 |
