Permanent skipper and mate so you can be confident you are in experienced hands.
Choose from a wide variety of voyage types . From coastal day sails to challenging offshore voyages and Tall Ship events.
No Previous Sailing experience needed. You get sail training included free from day one.
Small crew groups with a maximum of 8 guest sailors.
Big enough to give you the experience of handling a three masted schooner, small enough to reach intimate havens.
Experienced sailors can rest assured that we don't turn on the engine unnecessarily.
Fully inclusive Prices include all meals, fuel, mooring fees, use of lifejackets, waterproofs and special warm suits for arctic circle sailing. There are no hidden extras with SchoonerSail

Tall Ships Race Film 'Bigger Than Your Self' by Paul Farmer

Bigger Than Yourself from Paul Farmer on Vimeo.

Two youth members of the crew of the schooner Trinovante tell their own story of the Tall Ships Race 2008 between Bergen in Norway and Den Helder in the Netherlands. To their amazement they find themselves winning their class until wind and ocean take a hand. It's a tale of gales, calms and a close brush with Aberdeen, with reflections of international friendships made and dreams of all-day breakfasts....
Paul Farmer: filmmaker and producer.

A Link To A Film Of The Four Masted Schooner Santa Maria Manuela

15 min film of the schooner Santa Maria Manuela fishing off Newfoundland in the 1950's

SchoonerSail's schooner Trinovante was sailing in company for an evening with this large four masted schooner in the Tall Ships North Sea Regatta in 2010. Santa Maria manuela was one of the portuguese 'white fleet' of cod fishing schooners where the cod were caught by individual fishermen longlining from small dories carried to the fishing grounds on the deck of the main ship
.This melancholy film portrays the lives of the fishermen.

Mackerel Sky - Sailing On The Schooner Trionvante

Trinovante - Mackerel Sky from Paul Farmer on Vimeo.

More Paul Farmer Films at

www.farmerfilm.com

Paul Farmer is a writer and filmmaker based near Truro in Cornwall. In 2006 he sailed and filmed on Trinovante for the first time and he is currently making a series of films about his experiences aboard. The farmerfilm site is also the outlet for his Arts Council funded 'Cargoes' project, filmed and written aboard a 17000 tonne Reefer undertaking a double Atlantic crossing and trading around the Caribbean.