European tour
Year 2023
European tour: 2023
After staying the winter in Barcelona, the ship again in 2023 sailed in Europe. After leaving Barcelona the 20th of March, she visited Sète, Gibraltar, Jersey, Rotterdam and Hamburg, before returning to her home port Gothenburg the 2nd of June to officially start the celebrations of the city's 400-year jubilee. In total the ship visited nineteen ports during the 2022/2023 expedition, and more than 90,000 visitors were welcomed on board.
Highlights
Our first stopover in 2023 was beautiful Sète in the south of France, where we were invited by Escale à Sète. We were moored at Quay d'Alger, right at the heart of Sète, and it was a gorgeous stopover with thousands of visitors.
Next stopover was Gibraltar, were we spent a lovely Easter Weekend, before leaving the Mediterranean heading north across the Bay of Biscay. Next stopover was Jersey, where we took part in the Jersey Boat Show.
An unexpected boat rescue
Just before reaching Jersey, the Götheborg was involved in an unexpected boat rescue, that created attention across the globe. A small sailing boat lost it's rudder out at sea, and Götheborg answered the distress call.
For the sailors on board the sailing vessel, seeing the largest ocean-going wooden sailing ship turning up at the horizon was a very different experience. Or in the words of the sailors on the sailing boat: "This moment was very strange, and we wondered if we were dreaming. Where were we? What time period was it?"
After Jersey, we again sailed to a city that we had never visited before – Rotterdam! We were moored at the Holland Amerikakade in the Kop van Zuid neighborhood, and had fantastic days!
Hamburg was selected as a key stopover by our owner Greencarrier. We were moored at Überseebrücke in Mitte, and had several important corporate events onboard in addition to visitors from the public.
The 2nd of June, Götheborg returned to its home port to officially open the city's 400-year jubilee with gun salute, and to participate in the Jubilee Festival. More than 7,000 people visited the ship during the sunny days in Frihamnen. This marked the end of the European Tour 2023 and after the Jubilee Festival in Frihamnen in Gothenburg, the ship returned to Eriksberg, where it stayed open for visitors during summer 2023 as part of the 400-year celebrations.