Press splitter July 21st 2006

Also welcome without a sail
Round about thirty ships do not hoist their sails on the occasion of the 16th Hanse Sail as they have none. Light vessels, ice breakers, transfer boats, paddle steamers, launches or towboats and training ships. Of course, these ships are as welcome as the sailing vessels. Anyway, it’s also very adventurous to join the “iron fleet under steam and diesel” or to undertake a ship borne visit on an “open ship”. A visitation of the steam ice breaker STETTIN or the former floating lights, the light vessels FEHMARNBELT and BÜRGERMEISTER OSWALD (ex-ELBE i) will be very interesting. The 115 year old tugboat PIONIER or the cutter RIESENHAI are as attractive old-timers as the steam ship FREYA from the island of Sylt. The navy’s frigate MECKLENBURG-VORPOMMERN and the ultra-modern control ship of the fishery, SEEADLER, take a special position on the “hit list” of the ships without a sail as company and training vehicles.

123 new model ships
Visitors of the Hanse Sail shouldn’t miss the big exhibition in the „Societät Rostock maritim“. The exhibition in the August-Bebel Str. 1 calls: navigation, shipbuilding and harbours. There you can view about 650 model ships and other maritime exhibits. They partly come from the shipping museum in Rostock and private lenders. So ship’s modeller, enterprises, institutions like the office and the association of the Hanse Sail, the art foundation of the German sea’s shipping company, the shipping company Scandlines, the German Navy or the ship owning company for passengers chipped in their exhibits among many others.
A number of those partly very attractive models have never been released in Rostock before. The model of the future Rostock bark PASSATWIND or the big model Dhau AL ALIDA from Rostock which was a present of the president of the United Arab Emirates, sheik Zayed bin Sultan Alnahyan, on the occasion if the IGA 2003 in Rostock are among the exhibits. Analogue to that, you can admire the high-tech racing yacht ROSTOCKER of the Hanseatic Brewery Rostock. Also the PORTCENTER that has lain in the roads at Kabutzenhof for many years reminds of Rostock’s floating shopping temple of the 1990’s.
The models of the Navy’s ships like the sail training ship GORCH FOCK, the frigate MECKLENBURG-VORPOMMERN, the new corvette BRAUNSCHWEIG or the supplier of the work groups BERLIN are interesting, as well. The exhibition is daily opened from 10.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. Entrance for adults: 2,50 Euro, for youngsters until 18 years: 1,00 Euro. Free entrance for kids.

The Navy’s music corps Ostsee and a Big Band gala
The Navy’s music corps “Ostsee” will again accompany and enrich the big water plane meeting. Five concerts are planed. So the musicians in marine blue will already perform in the framework of the Port Party at the passenger quay in Warnemünde the evening before the Hanse Sail begins (August 9th) from 08.00 pm on. The Navy orchestra from Kiel will also participate in the opening of the Hanse Sail (August 10th) while co-operating the flag parade of the Navy ships MECKLENBURG-VORPOMMERN and GORCH FOCK in Warnemünde the same evening.
On Friday two open-air concerts will follow on the university place (10.00 am) and the Navy’s base Hohe Düne (02.00 pm). The gala concerts of the Big Band of the German Federal Armed Forces will give true promise (August 10th, 9.00 – 11.00 pm, Hanse Sail stage). The internationally famous orchestra in classical instrumentation will elate the audience in the sound of Glenn-Miller with songs from Gloria Estephan to Robbie Williams.

A special cup for QUALLE
The tradional ship QUALLE from Wismar will obtain the honorary “Baltic-Sail-Trophy” cup on the occasion of the 16th Hanse Sail. In 2005 it was the only ship that called at all harbour celebrations of the Baltic Sail’s cities. The ceremony will be carried out by the committee of the Batlic Sail while the Captain’s Reception is taking place.
The tack sail schooner QUALLE, an originally greek Khahik constructed in 1930, is rigged with a sail surface of 210 m². The ship’s crew consists of six persons. There are eight berthes for guests and trainees on board of the 25 m long wooden ship.

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