Start of masting works on the Pallada
The sailing vessel Pallada has been moored at the pier of Cape Pospelov on Russky Island. The repair gang is carrying out yard works. The paint has been cleaned from yards surface and the thickness of the metal has been checked. Welding works have been carried out, frame blocks and rollers have been changed. According to the technical regulations, this procedure is usually performed every ten years. At the end works on standing and running rigging are planned, as well as sail setting and lacing. Simultaneously the shore gang and the crew are assembling the main engines, auxiliary diesel generator and main diesels No.1 and No. 2.
Upon completion of all works mooring tests are to be carried out. According to the plan the vessel will be presented to representatives of the Far Eastern branch of the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping, Sea port Administration and ISM inspection.
During the 27120-mile voyage, the Pallada will call at 9 foreign ports, including Apia, Papeete, Valparaiso, Ushuaia, Cape town, Port Louis, Singapore, Moire and Nagasaki. Only 100 cadets (from FEFU, Kamchatka State Technical University, the Far Eastern nautical school and Vladivostok High Maritime College), cabin boys and foreign trainees will undergo sea practice on board of the sailing vessel. The voyage will last 222 days including 195 days at sea.
The circumnavigation of the Russian sailing ships the Kruzenshtern, the Sedov and the Pallada is taking place two centuries after the famous expedition of Russian seafarers headed by Thaddeus Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev on the sloops Vostok and Mirny. The famous Russian pioneers sailed around the unknown ice continent at latitudes from 60° to 70° despite severe navigational conditions and irrefutably proved the existence of the land at the South Pole. The sailing of the Russian vessels will also be timed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
In the period from November 2019 to December 2020, the world-famous training sailing ships-the barque Sedov and the frigate Pallada will carry out circumnavigations and the barque Kruzenshtern will take up a transatlantic passage. The ships will act as the sites of sea practice for 692 Rosrybolovstvo's cadets of and 56 shipboys. The vessels will call at more than 40 ports of foreign countries of North and South America, Africa, Europe and Oceania. Each call will be marked by cultural and educational activities. During the voyage the three ships are going to sail 100 thousand nautical miles. The voyage will be finished at the end of 2020.
