Summer and The Sea Festival in Lithuania

by www.easier.com on 11 Jul 2007
The Sea Festival is the biggest traditional summer festival in Lithuania attracting half a million visitors every year and has been organized for more than 70 years in Klaipeda. Klaipeda is the only seaport in Lithuania and is the most northern ice – free port in the Baltic Sea.

During the Sea Festival another huge maritime event will take place in Klaipeda – the Baltic Sail, involving a fleet of traditional ships.

The Baltic Sail gives the Festival visitor an opportunity to inspect meticulously restored ships and get a feel for maritime traditions. You can sail from one harbour to another or choose just a day trip as a trainee or a sailing guest, have new experiences and make new friends from all over the world.

Within the Baltic Sail sailing voyages between the participating cities Gdansk (Poland), Karlskrona (Sweden), Helsingör (Denmark), Lübeck-Travemünde and Rostock (Germany) are offered. Since 2005 the towns Klaipeda (Lithuania) and Halmstad (Sweden) have taken part in this event.

More about the Baltic Sail, visit Balticsail.lt/en/

On the Sea Festival / Baltic Sail dates Klaipëda also will host the Baltic Sprint Cup 2007. After two years the annual international offshore sailing event is coming back to Klaipëda on 27-29th July 2007.

The Baltic Sprint Cup 2007 will cover 624 nautical miles in 15 days. Six countries will take part and there will be five legs. Each host port will hold a great party. All are welcome to join in celebrating the Baltic traditions of trade, seamanship and fair play. The fleet starts at Copenhagen on 20th July via Sassnitz (22nd), Gdansk (26th), Klaipeda (29th) and Ventspils (1st August). For more about the Baltic Sprint Cup, visit Balticsprintcup.com.

The Tall Ships' Races Baltic will be centred on Klaipeda in 2009. For over 30 years the regattas and festivals organized by the Sail Training Association had been known by the name of Cutty Sark. Sail Training International (STI) maintains the activity of regattas’ organization and youth training.

STI unites over 20 national sail training associations of such countries as Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, the Netherlands, Poland Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, USA, Great Britain, and others.

During its fifty years of existence the Tall Ships’ Races developed good system and traditions. Every year the regattas take place in a different sea, but each time they are held in three legs among four ports of different countries.

The Tall Ships’ Races will finish in Klaipeda in the very end of July.

For more about the Tall Ships’ Races Baltic 2009 visit: sailtraininginternational.org.

For more about Lithuania and Klaipeda visit: Lithuaniatourism.co.uk; Klaipedainfo.lt

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