The Russian ocean going yacht, special designed for navigation in the polar seas was built in Tver, north of Moscow for the Moscow Adventure Club.
01 July 1993 laid down at the Tver Carriage Works.
Due to financial and technical problems delivery of the yacht was delayed and at least on 31 July 1996 she was taken out of the builder’s workplace.
09 August 1996 she was put for the first time in the water, arrived in her homeport Moscow in the end of September.
When the Patriarch of Moscow Alexy II was asked to bless the vessel and help to choose the name of the yacht. He choose the name APOSTOL ANDREW which corresponds to the historical connection of the Russian Navy with the name St. Andrew. The blessing of the yacht took place in Moscow.
Displacement 25 ton. Dimensions of the yacht are length 16.2m, beam 4.8m, draught 2,7m
Two masts, which carry 130 sq. m of sails
Auxiliary diesel engine Iveco of 85 hp.
Maximum speed under sail 12 knots.
Equipped with modern navigation aids, radio and telephone communication.
Can accommodate 5 – 7 people.
September 1996 she sailed from Moscow under skipper Nikolay Litau to St Petersburg for her first world circumnavigation, see:
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On November 14, 1996 the voyage started. After leaving behind the waters of the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans, the yacht arrived in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky on October, 1997. On June 28, 1998 the yacht "APOSTOL ANDREY" continued the route. The yacht had passed the Arctic seas: the Bering Sea, the Chuckchee Sea, the East Siberian Sea and the Laptev Sea. Under the conditions of approaching winter the crew of the yacht made a heroic attempt to go round the Chelyuskin Cape, the northern point of the continent, but was surrounded by young ice. Old ice fields shifted from the north towards the yacht and the "APOSTOL ANDREY" was forced to return to the Tiksy port for a winter stay. In summer 1999 the voyage was continued. The crew of the yacht had successfully sailed along the North East Passage. After a short stay in Murmansk, the yacht "APOSTOL ANDREY" sailed round Scandinavia and took course to St. Petersburg. On November 11, 1999 the round the world sailing over the four Oceans was accomplished at the berths of the North Capital.
2016 Still sailing same name and owner.
Source: Internet.
Russian postal card 2016.