privateer did some 300 hundred years ago. The aim of the project is to give all the interested people an opportunity to cruise a historical ship with naval craft training program and share with us those proud traditions of sailing.

We are going to run the ship, among other things, in a program so called “Sailtraining”. This program brings aboard similar ships hundreds of young people (mainly university students) every year to enjoy personally that wonderful atmosphere in great company of friends from all over the world.

e need to ensure a necessary budget for the brig La Grace, so that we will run her also for commercial cruises, available for all the adventurers interested in historical yachting. Daily life will go on as an illusion, which takes you aboard a real historical1 ship, from clothes or carefully chosen meals to common everyday routine.

ccording to available sources, La Grace was a ship of the first real Czech naval captain Augustine Herrman. In service of Dutch West India Company he navigated the Atlantic several times. After leaving the Company, he ran the small privateer ship called La Grace. Annually this relatively weak and vulnerable six-gunner brought huge prize money from captured Spanish galleons to New Amsterdam. Later he became the biggest exporter of tobacco in America and important freeholder in New Colonies.

e started building the ship at the end of the year 2008 in a professional shipyard in Egypt. We hope to finish the hull and start work on rigging in one year. The reason for our choice of this shipyard is the fact that all the ships there are built in a traditional way. If you close your eyes and ignore modern t-shirts worn by local workmen, you have an impression of being back in the 18th century. Because of Suez Canal, superior Scandinavian wood, which was favorite and the most common building material at the golden age of sails, is also available in Egypt..