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TALL SHIPS CHALLENGE®

TALL SHIPS CHALLENGE®

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An annual series of Tall Ships® races, cruises, rallies and maritime festivals that alternate across the Atlantic, Pacific and Great Lakes coasts of North America. View photos, read about the Race Team's adventures and watch video from this summer's race series.

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  • Success!….and we are already looking forward to next year

    Posted on Wednesday November 18th, 2009 at 09:39 in videos, annual conference, 2009

    Now that the post-conference flurry has subsided somewhat, the ASTA team is back in the office and racing full steam ahead, planning regional meetings on the coasts and Great Lakes, a board retreat in the spring and a naval attache reception in DC th...

  • Join the ASTA team in Cleveland, November 5,6,7!

    Posted on Friday October 9th, 2009 at 14:06 in cleveland, 2009

    Huntington Cleveland Harborfest 2006We are counting down to the annual ASTA conference and there is  less than a month to go! Join the team in Cleveland, Ohio for the 37th Annual Conference on Sail Training and Tall Ships.  The conference will kick...

  • Nautical Tattoos: Mike from Alliance

    Posted on Tuesday September 29th, 2009 at 08:42 in 2009, nautical tattoos

    While spending time in Vancouver around 1995, Mike aboard Alliance choose this nautical tattoo for his right arm.  According to Mike, it is a tattoo of the dolphin Hiwa, a messenger from the gods in Northwest Indian tales as well as stylized around ...

  • Nautical Tattoos: Sam from Roseway

    Posted on Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 at 09:54 in 2009, nautical tattoos

    Sam’s cormorant tattoo was only 10 days old when we caught up with her on the Roseway back in May.  She picked the cormorant because she spent the last two years as a sailing instructor with Thompson Island Outward Bound where they would see...

  • Nautical Tattoos: Elizabeth from Pride of Baltimore II

    Posted on Tuesday September 15th, 2009 at 08:48 in 2009, nautical tattoos

    Elizabeth aboard Pride of Baltimore II got her tattoo of a Pig and Rooster in May.  Intertwined as mermaids and positioned in the middle of her back, she explains that the image signifies good luck and protection against drowning and shipwrecks.  S...

  • Nautical Tattoos: Gina from the Spirit of Massachusetts

    Posted on Thursday September 3rd, 2009 at 14:17 in 2009, nautical tattoos, tall ships atlantic challenge

    The cliche of the sailor – weathered skin, salt encrusted hair, and gravely voiced with a faded tattoo. The cliche may hold true (sometimes) but there is a deeper meaning behind that ink.  It could be a souvenir of a journey or a deeply held ...

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