The “Peking” is in the port of Hamburg, the “Gorch Fock” is on the move again: The fascination for large sailing ships is unbroken. Why is that and which ships are particularly impressive.
Large windjammers are the stars of every maritime event. Tallships, as the swimming giants are also called, convey the flair of times long past. They come as a full square sail, as a three-masted barque or two-masted brig; some are also allowed to call themselves “Clipper” – descendants of the particularly fast, sleek freighters, which were initially built in the United States with different rigging in the first third of the 19th century, but were later built in shipyards in Europe and elsewhere in the world .