Ship profile for the sailing ship: "Pogoria"

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Pogoria, Volker Gries, Sail Travemünde / Cutty Sark 2003 , 08/2003

Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Sail Travemünde / Cutty Sark 2003,
08/2003

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Technical data of the sailing ship:

Name:Pogoria
Registered port:Gdynia
Nation:POL
Type of rigging:BARKENTINE
Year built:1980
Yard:Stocznia Gdanska, Gdansk, PL
Overall length:46.80 m
Length (hull):40.00 m
Breadth:8.00 m
Draught:3.70 m
Sail area:1050 m2
Ship's hull:Stahl / Steel
Power:310 PS
Engine:Wola Warszawa

Portrait of the sailing ship:

Last update: 21 Aug 2022

  • built as a prototype for a series of ships in Gdansk/Poland in 1980, the barkentines "Iskra II" (1982) of Poland and "Kaliakra" (1984) of Bulgaria and the similarly-hulled "Oceania" (1985) of Poland with an experimental rig belong to this series.
  • owner and operator became the Iron Shackle Fraternity, a sail training organisation aimed at youngsters in trouble.
  • she is considered fast at international regattas and was present at Cutty Sark Tall Ships Race 1980, Sail America in 1986, Sail Rostock in 1991 and 1993, several sailing festivals in the Great Lakes area 1994, Sail Amsterdam 1995 and the Cutty-Sark Races 1996-2003, awarded the Cutty-Sark-Trophy in 1999.
  • 1980-81 chartered by the Polish Academy of Science for a voyage to the Antarctic seas as a relief vessel for Polish scientists with visits of the King George Islands and the Falklands.
  • 1983-84 chartered by a "Class Afloat" project, a voyage with Polish and western trainees around Africa, with a crossing of the Indian Ocean to Bombay and Colombo before heading for Cape Town via the Seychelles.
  • 1985-91 chartered in a similar projekt for Canadian youngsters, 1985-86 another circumnavigation of Africas, visits to Montreal and New York, 1987-88 round-the-world voyage, experienced by these voyages "Class Afloat" association came up who operates an own vessel, the "Concordia" (1992), then.
  • 1992/93 necessary refit but short funds resulted in the Gdynia Sailing Foundation becoming part owner and operator, evolving in 1995 into the Sail Training Association Poland.
  • since 1999 she is operated in the Mediterranean with Genoa as baseport in cooperation with STA Italia during the winter.
  • in July 2009 dismasted in the Baltic Sea during the Tallship Race organised by the STI, towed to Hanko, FIN.

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Contact:

Website (po polsky/English, 21 Aug 2022):
https://www.pogoria.pl/new
STAP: website of the Polish STA who is used as contact to the ship

Literature for further reading:

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Ollivier Puget, Jean-Noël Darde
"Partir sur les Grand Voiliers - Le guide pour embarquer"
Guides Balland 2000 ISBN: 2-7158-1277-9
Page: 130 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data Quelle with contact

Otmar Schäuffelen
"Die letzten grossen Segelschiffe"
Delius Klasing Verlag 1997 ISBN: 3-7688-0483-6
(9. aktualisierte Auflage)
Page: 266 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data

Beken of Cowes, Eric C. Abranson
"Segelschiffe der Welt"
Edition Maritim 1995 ISBN: 3-89225-314-5
(engl. Originalausgabe: "Sailing Ships of the World", 1992, Thomas Reed Publications Ltd.)
Page: 156 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data

Anthony Churchill
"Sail to Adventure"
ISBN: 0 948337 05 2
Page: 120 Source with picture Source with history Quelle with contact

"Faszination Segelschiffe"
Ein interaktives Informationssystem auf CD-ROM 1998
(2. überarbeitete Auflage)
Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data Quelle with contact

Thaddeus Koza
"Tall Ships - the Fleet of the 21th Century"
Tide-Mark Press, East Hartford 2000 ISBN: 1-55949-551-0
(http://www.tallshipsinternational.com/)
Page: 136 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data

Otmar Schäuffelen
"Die letzten grossen Segelschiffe"
Delius Klasing Verlag 2002 ISBN: 3-7688-0483-6
(10. aktualisierte und erweiterte Auflage)
Page: 296 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data

Peter Rath
"Hanse Sail Rostock - Wo man sich begegnet"
Hanse Sail Verein Rostock e.V. 2005
(http://www.hansesail.com/)
Page: 149 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data

American Sail Training Association (ASTA)
"Sail Tall Ships! A Directory of Sail Training and Adventure at Sea"
2007 ISBN: 978-0-9799878-0-9
(17th Edition)
Page: 236 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data Quelle with contact