Gedania was built in 1975 and entered the Tall Ships' Races on several occasions.
Her hull was based on an old historic Gedani hull later extended to 24m.
L 24m W5.2m D3.2m
Engine 192kw
Sails 230M2
Cabins 3x4bed, 2x2bed, 1x3bed total berths 19.
She sailed to both north and south Polar circles and was the first Polish yacht to achieve this.
She took part in the Cutty Sark Tall Ships race in 1982 and again in 1984.
1986-87 she sailed around the world crossing the Atlantic to the Caribbean and via the Panama Canal across the Pacific to Australia.
In 1989 work started to renovate her but was stopped due to lack of funds.
In 2002 the new owner became the Polish Sail training Assoc and repair and reconstruction resumed.
In 2005 she was reconstructed and her hull extended by 3ft and she was equipped with modern navigation equipment.
In 2009 she again entered the Tall Ships Race.
Gedania is licensed to carry up to 20 people.
Detail from various web sites translated from Polish.
Poland SG3092
Gedania
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Built as a staysail schooner rigged yacht by the Gdansk Shipyard at Gdansk, Poland.
May 1975 she was launched as the GEDANIA.
Dim.20.7 x 5.4 x 3.1m. (draught)
She has accommodation for 16 persons but carried not more as 9.
Sail area 200 m².
Double hulled.
Auxiliary engine 66kW.
Fuel capacity 7.5 tons.
The yacht was designed by Richard Langer. Homeport Gdansk.
After completing she made a short cruise in the Baltic.
03 July 1975 sailed from Gdansk under command of skipper Dariusz Bogucki for her first long trip, making calls at Malmo, Sweden, Aberdeen, Scotland and Kirkwall, Orkney Islands arriving mid-August in Godthab, Greenland, then she headed north and via Davis Strait and Baffin Bay she reached the Strait of Lancaster which is already part of the Northwest Passage and at the end of August reached Resolute Bay, Cornwallis Island.
They then got not permission from the Canadian Authorities to proceed father in the Northwest Passage, and she turned back first headed for Thule in Greenland before she sailed to St John’s, Newfoundland which they reached in mid-September.
Then via New York and Miami in the USA, the Bahamas, Long Isla and the archipelago of San Blas to Panama Canal where they arrived in mid-December.
Christmas they were at the Galapagos Islands.
Mid-January 1976 the GEDANIA made a call in Callao, Peru, where she was docked to clean her bottom.
07 February she sailed from Callao for the voyage to the Antarctic weather was good but when passed Cape Horn she were running in a storm with hurricane force, the yacht only with minimum storm sail was rolling heavy, the mast sometimes touching the waves. Conditions inside the yacht was cold and damp.
The radar malfunctioned and in the area where icebergs were reported it was dangerous sailing without it.
After the storm abated but it was very difficult to get a good position of the yacht, the compass due to very near the magnetic pole was not trustable and without any sun or stars for an observation it was difficult to navigate. (it was before the time of the GPS.)
The Arctic Circle was passed, the first time that the Polish flag was seen so far south.
06 March 1976 the anchor was dropt at the British Polar station Base T (67 15S 68 30W) on Adelaide Island.
She was the first yacht what arrived at Base T.
After circling the southern tip of Adelaide Island she headed back home. Avoiding countless icebergs heading first to the U.S. Polar station Palmer, on 8 March GEDANIA crossed the meridian of Cape Horn sailing between large ice-floes nobody on board took notice of it.
The next day the GEDANIA arrived at Palmer Station where she got a safe berth, and the crew a rest.
She sailed then to Deception Island to help the Belgian yacht TRISMUS which was damaged by ice.
Her last stop in the Antarctic was on the Soviet base of Bellingshausen on King George Island in the South Shetland Islands archipelago.
14 March 1976 she left from this base bound for Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands, where she arrived on 20 March.
09 September 1976 she arrived back in her homeport after a voyage of 243 days with a distance of 32,282 miles.
1978 She made a other trip to the Arctic waters, again under command of skipper Bogucki, she sailed via Denmark, Sweden, Jan Mayen Islands, the north and west coast of Iceland and the Westmannaeyer Islands, Iceland, the Orkney Islands and Denmark before she arrived home again in September.
The next year she made a voyage to the Mediterranean.
1980 She returns to the northern waters sailing around Iceland.
From July to October 1981 with a six men crew under command of skipper Wojciech Wierzbicki she made a scientific expedition to Spitsbergen, she was the first Polish yacht which circumnavigated Spitsbergen from east to west.
1982 She took part in the Cutty Sark Tall Ship Race in the Baltic. The next year she made a voyage to Karlskrona and the .U.K. up the English Channel.
1984 The GEDANIA takes part in the Cutty Sark Tal Ship Races from Southampton via the Canary Islands to Bermuda and Halifax, Quebec to Montreal. After a crew change the GEDANIA sailed to the Great Lakes and Toronto and then to the Upper Lakes. On her return voyage to Poland she visited St Johns, New Foundland before she headed home via the northern route above the U.K.
Between 1986 and 1987 she made a long voyage via the Atlantic to the Caribbean and via the Panama Canal to Australia before she returned home via the Panama Canal and Havana.
1989 The GEDANIA will be restored and refitted by her builder, by 1992 the interior was removed and the used equipment. Her hull and decks thoroughly restored, her double hull removed and fitted out with new tanks. But due to lack of funds the work halted
This situation lasted till 26 February 2002 when the GEDANIA got a new owner, the Sail Training Association Poland.
The work to bring her back in a good working state commenced again her hull was in 2005 lengthened by 3.3m.
Length 23.28m, length on waterline 21.8m beam 5.2m, draught 3.2m.
Auxiliary engine of 192 kW.
Sail area 230 m²
Cabins 3 x 4, 2 x 2 and 1 x 3 persons.
2007 In service as a sail training vessel, takes part in various Tall Ship Races.
2011 In service
Poland 1987 10z sg3092, scott2785.
Source: Various websites.
May 1975 she was launched as the GEDANIA.
Dim.20.7 x 5.4 x 3.1m. (draught)
She has accommodation for 16 persons but carried not more as 9.
Sail area 200 m².
Double hulled.
Auxiliary engine 66kW.
Fuel capacity 7.5 tons.
The yacht was designed by Richard Langer. Homeport Gdansk.
After completing she made a short cruise in the Baltic.
03 July 1975 sailed from Gdansk under command of skipper Dariusz Bogucki for her first long trip, making calls at Malmo, Sweden, Aberdeen, Scotland and Kirkwall, Orkney Islands arriving mid-August in Godthab, Greenland, then she headed north and via Davis Strait and Baffin Bay she reached the Strait of Lancaster which is already part of the Northwest Passage and at the end of August reached Resolute Bay, Cornwallis Island.
They then got not permission from the Canadian Authorities to proceed father in the Northwest Passage, and she turned back first headed for Thule in Greenland before she sailed to St John’s, Newfoundland which they reached in mid-September.
Then via New York and Miami in the USA, the Bahamas, Long Isla and the archipelago of San Blas to Panama Canal where they arrived in mid-December.
Christmas they were at the Galapagos Islands.
Mid-January 1976 the GEDANIA made a call in Callao, Peru, where she was docked to clean her bottom.
07 February she sailed from Callao for the voyage to the Antarctic weather was good but when passed Cape Horn she were running in a storm with hurricane force, the yacht only with minimum storm sail was rolling heavy, the mast sometimes touching the waves. Conditions inside the yacht was cold and damp.
The radar malfunctioned and in the area where icebergs were reported it was dangerous sailing without it.
After the storm abated but it was very difficult to get a good position of the yacht, the compass due to very near the magnetic pole was not trustable and without any sun or stars for an observation it was difficult to navigate. (it was before the time of the GPS.)
The Arctic Circle was passed, the first time that the Polish flag was seen so far south.
06 March 1976 the anchor was dropt at the British Polar station Base T (67 15S 68 30W) on Adelaide Island.
She was the first yacht what arrived at Base T.
After circling the southern tip of Adelaide Island she headed back home. Avoiding countless icebergs heading first to the U.S. Polar station Palmer, on 8 March GEDANIA crossed the meridian of Cape Horn sailing between large ice-floes nobody on board took notice of it.
The next day the GEDANIA arrived at Palmer Station where she got a safe berth, and the crew a rest.
She sailed then to Deception Island to help the Belgian yacht TRISMUS which was damaged by ice.
Her last stop in the Antarctic was on the Soviet base of Bellingshausen on King George Island in the South Shetland Islands archipelago.
14 March 1976 she left from this base bound for Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands, where she arrived on 20 March.
09 September 1976 she arrived back in her homeport after a voyage of 243 days with a distance of 32,282 miles.
1978 She made a other trip to the Arctic waters, again under command of skipper Bogucki, she sailed via Denmark, Sweden, Jan Mayen Islands, the north and west coast of Iceland and the Westmannaeyer Islands, Iceland, the Orkney Islands and Denmark before she arrived home again in September.
The next year she made a voyage to the Mediterranean.
1980 She returns to the northern waters sailing around Iceland.
From July to October 1981 with a six men crew under command of skipper Wojciech Wierzbicki she made a scientific expedition to Spitsbergen, she was the first Polish yacht which circumnavigated Spitsbergen from east to west.
1982 She took part in the Cutty Sark Tall Ship Race in the Baltic. The next year she made a voyage to Karlskrona and the .U.K. up the English Channel.
1984 The GEDANIA takes part in the Cutty Sark Tal Ship Races from Southampton via the Canary Islands to Bermuda and Halifax, Quebec to Montreal. After a crew change the GEDANIA sailed to the Great Lakes and Toronto and then to the Upper Lakes. On her return voyage to Poland she visited St Johns, New Foundland before she headed home via the northern route above the U.K.
Between 1986 and 1987 she made a long voyage via the Atlantic to the Caribbean and via the Panama Canal to Australia before she returned home via the Panama Canal and Havana.
1989 The GEDANIA will be restored and refitted by her builder, by 1992 the interior was removed and the used equipment. Her hull and decks thoroughly restored, her double hull removed and fitted out with new tanks. But due to lack of funds the work halted
This situation lasted till 26 February 2002 when the GEDANIA got a new owner, the Sail Training Association Poland.
The work to bring her back in a good working state commenced again her hull was in 2005 lengthened by 3.3m.
Length 23.28m, length on waterline 21.8m beam 5.2m, draught 3.2m.
Auxiliary engine of 192 kW.
Sail area 230 m²
Cabins 3 x 4, 2 x 2 and 1 x 3 persons.
2007 In service as a sail training vessel, takes part in various Tall Ship Races.
2011 In service
Poland 1987 10z sg3092, scott2785.
Source: Various websites.