Barken Viking
Four-masted steel barque and former grain-race windjammer, now a floating hotel and restaurant.
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This guide to Barken Viking in Gothenburg follows Gustaf Erikson, an Åland shipowner who kept buying sailing ships while the rest of the world switched to steam. It moves between Copenhagen, where she was launched as a Danish training ship, and the wheat ports of South Australia where the Great Grain Races began. You'll meet the crews who had a nickname for their boss, and the passengers who paid to sail with them. Best heard on the quay at Lilla Bommen, looking up at her rigging.
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