The legendary sailboat “Sea Cloud” arrived in the gulf of Nafplio on Sunday. The Sea Cloud, an authentic 1930s barque has hosted royalties, artists and famous politicians and has been a presidential yacht, a diplomatic palace an oceanology school as well as a warship.
The sail boat was the first, after the Civil War, US battleship which had a fully intergrated crew. The Sea Cloud is 109 meters long 15 metres wide while its mainmast is 54 metres high and 32 luxurious cabins was built in Kiel in 1931.
The ship was bought in the ’50s by Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillio who renamed it Angelita after his daughter. After Trujillo’s assassination the luxurious ship under the name “Patria” was purchased by Operation Sea Cruises Inc.
Hartmut Paschberg and a group of Hamburg associates purchased it once again naming her Sea Cloud. Paschberg and thirty-eight other men sailed the ship to Europe, arriving in the Port of Hamburg on November 15, 1978. Sea Cloud spent eight months undergoing repairs in the now-named Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft shipyard, the very yard she was built in. It was redesigned with a sixty-four passenger capacity for a crew of sixty. The ship set sail on her first cruise in 1979 and has since been described by the Berlitz Complete Guide to Cruising & Cruise Ships as “the most romantic sailing ship afloat.”
Source: ANA-MPA
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