STAR CLIPPERS - Key Persons

Royal Clipper is the first five-masted, full-rigged sailing ship to be built for over a century. She is the largest true sailing clipper ship in the world, and carries 42 sails (26 squaresails, 11 staysails, 4 jibs, 1 gaff-rigged spanker) with a total area of 56,000 square feet. At sea, Royal Clipper is under sail power as much as possible, with sails set for minimum heeling, usually held to less than 6%. The Star Clippers ships offer Western Med or Eastern Med sailing cruises in the summer, with Caribbean and Cuba sailing cruises in the winter as well as exciting Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore sailings. Transatlantic crossings travel between Europe and the Caribbean in late Spring and Autumn.