On the 26th of September 2015, Fairtransport, the sustainable shipping company will bring a second engineless sailing cargo vessel into service NORLDLYS (Norwegian for “Northern Light”) a ketch rigged trawler build in 1873 at the Isle of Wight. After years of sailing cargo around the Norwegian coast the ship was handed over to Fairtransport by …

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September 23, 2015 – Today’s strong winds forced the organizers to abandon racing, leaving them no choice but to keep the boats safely moored in the Vieux Port of Cannes. Since the inception of the Regates Royales de Cannes, owners have always called up professional sailors. Once they were fisherman or seafaring shipmates, today they’re …

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