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Blue Clipper off Donaghadee
Maybe Sailing's Blue Clipper lies at anchor close to shore in Northern Ireland with a backdrop of the coast of Scotland 20 miles away.
Tall Ship Blue Clipper was built in 1991 in Sweden. In 1992 the famous brandy company Hennessey chartered Blue Clipper to celebrate the anniversary of the first delivery of cognac from France to Shanghai 120 years earlier. Painted white and with the name ‘Spirit of Hennessey’ Blue Clipper repeated this historic voyage. She has appeared in various TV programmes and TV commercials including the Trade Winds TV series starring Hugh Johnson.
2018 marked a new chapter for the vessel, as she was repainted Blue and travelled North once more to visit the Arctic before heading to the Caribbean for some winter sunshine.
2019 saw Blue Clipper returning to the UK, heading up to Iceland before crossing the North Sea to spend the summer in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, participating in the International Tall Ship Races and exploring the Kattergat and Skagerrak.
At the beginning of 2020 Blue Clipper returned across the Atlantic from her winter season in the Caribbean to whole new world of COVID-19. After a period of quarantine in Portugal Blue Clipper is undergoing refit.
2021 will see Blue Clipper make the journey across Biscay and up the West coast to spend the summer in the highlands and Hebridean Islands before heading north to the Orkneys and then back down the East coast.
Blue Clipper off Donaghadee
Maybe Sailing's Blue Clipper lies at anchor close to shore in Northern Ireland with a backdrop of the coast of Scotland 20 miles away.
Tall Ship Blue Clipper was built in 1991 in Sweden. In 1992 the famous brandy company Hennessey chartered Blue Clipper to celebrate the anniversary of the first delivery of cognac from France to Shanghai 120 years earlier. Painted white and with the name ‘Spirit of Hennessey’ Blue Clipper repeated this historic voyage. She has appeared in various TV programmes and TV commercials including the Trade Winds TV series starring Hugh Johnson.
2018 marked a new chapter for the vessel, as she was repainted Blue and travelled North once more to visit the Arctic before heading to the Caribbean for some winter sunshine.
2019 saw Blue Clipper returning to the UK, heading up to Iceland before crossing the North Sea to spend the summer in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, participating in the International Tall Ship Races and exploring the Kattergat and Skagerrak.
At the beginning of 2020 Blue Clipper returned across the Atlantic from her winter season in the Caribbean to whole new world of COVID-19. After a period of quarantine in Portugal Blue Clipper is undergoing refit.
2021 will see Blue Clipper make the journey across Biscay and up the West coast to spend the summer in the highlands and Hebridean Islands before heading north to the Orkneys and then back down the East coast.