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Over 1000 people are racing from New York City to Boston tomorrow. And nobody is talking about it. The Five Sisters Cup will feature 4/5 tall ships designed to a common specification by Blohm & Voss in Hamburg, Germany. Each barque has 3 masts, and a crew over 250. Gorch Fock II 🇩🇪 Eagle 🇺🇸 Sagres 🇵🇹 Mircea 🇷🇴 The Gorch Fock I, Eagle, Sagres, and Mircea are 1930s contemporaries. The first three were purpose-built training vessels for Germany with Mircea built for Romania. After the war, the German vessels were redistributed as reparations. Gorch Fock II was built as a replacement for Gorch Fock I in the 1950s. Unfortunately, Gorch Fock I is no longer seaworthy and currently resides in Stralsund as a museum. The last time all these ships saw one another was for the 🇺🇸 Bicentennial in 1976. Gorch Fock II claimed the Five Sisters Cup then, but who will claim it in the days ahead?

Over 1000 people are racing from New York City to Boston tomorrow. And nobody is talking about it. The Five Sisters Cup will feature 4/5 tall ships designed to a common specification by Blohm & Voss in Hamburg, Germany. Each barque has 3 masts, and a crew over 250. Gorch Fock II 🇩🇪 Eagle 🇺🇸 Sagres 🇵🇹 Mircea 🇷🇴 The Gorch Fock I, Eagle, Sagres, and Mircea are 1930s contemporaries. The first three were purpose-built training vessels for Germany with Mircea built for Romania. After the war, the German vessels were redistributed as reparations. Gorch Fock II was built as a replacement for Gorch Fock I in the 1950s. Unfortunately, Gorch Fock I is no longer seaworthy and currently resides in Stralsund as a museum. The last time all these ships saw one another was for the 🇺🇸 Bicentennial in 1976. Gorch Fock II claimed the Five Sisters Cup then, but who will claim it in the days ahead?

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