“The captains of the Sedov and Kruzenshtern training and sailing vessels of the Russian Fisheries Agency, using the so-called window (reducing the strength of the wind), guided the ships along the Kaliningrad Sea Shipping Channel into the open sea,” the expedition media center said.
According to TASS, Kruzenshtern will make a transatlantic transition, now it has headed for the Spanish port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, arrival there is scheduled for December 25.
The Sedov will dock on the coast in the port of Spain, Las Palmas, on December 31, where the crew and cadets will meet 2020.
Sailboats will follow the route as close as possible to that made 200 years ago by Russian sailors under the command of Thaddeus Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev.
For the first time in the history of Russia, a training sailing fleet of the Russian Fisheries is entering a joint circumnavigation.
In March, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on a round-the-world expedition of sailing ships in 2019-2020.