Sail-ship Nadezhda sets out on voyage in the Pacific Wed.

VLADIVOSTOK, September 14 (Itar-Tass) - The sail-ship Nadezhda (hope)
of Maritime State University named after Adm Gennady Nevelskoy sets out
from here on Wednesday on a voyage in the Pacific.
The voyage will consist of two phases: the first one will last from
September to December 2011 and the second one from March to September
2012, skipper Sergei Vorobyov said.
An official in the University's press service has told Itar-Tass that
upon leaving Vladivostok the Nadezhda will head for San Francisco. It will
take the ship 40 days to get there. Honolulu,Hawaii, the venue of the 2011
APEC summit will be the next port of call. Over there, the ship's
participation is on the programme of the forum. The Nadezhda will return
to Vladivostok via the Japanese port of Yokohama, the venue of last year's
APEC summit, towards the end of December.
The second phase of the voyage will begin early in March 2012, with
calls at all the ports of APEC member-countries in Southeast Asia. Early
in December 2012, the Nadezhda will return here and convey a symbolic
relay baton of APEC summits.
The voyage is dedicated to the 2012 APEC summit in Vladivostok. The
ship is to call within a year at 18 ports of countries that will
participate in the APEC summit: Australia and New Zealand, the Republic
of Korea, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand,
Vietnam, Brunei, the Philippines, China, and Japan.
A photo exhibition has been arranged on board the ship, featuring
materials about the construction of APEC summit facilities in Vladivostok.
Much place in it has been taken up by photos from the construction sites
of Far Eastern Federal University and the Conference Center on Russkiy
(Russian) Island, depicting the process from start-up of construction to
the present. In all, on view are more than 250 photos, most of which shown
for the first time. A maritime center of the Russian World Foundation
(RWF) will function on board the ship, with over 1,000 books and video
materials about Russia available.
During calls at each port, the ship is expected to receive daily up to
15,000 visitors who will be able to study the Russian language and
culture, hear lectures and see films about Russia and even learn singing
Russian songs. They will also have access to the electronic resources of
the RWF.
The Nadezhda is a three-masted sailer built at the Gdansk shipyard in
1991 on the strength of the prototype of the beginning of the 20th
century. Tens of future ship navigators and ship mechanics from all over
the Far East unndergo practicals aboard the ship every year. The Nadezhda
repeatedly put to the sea with expeditions of scientists -- biologists and
ecologists -- on board. The ship sailed about the Sea of Japan (East Sea)
in May this year under the auspices of the Russian Geographical Society.
Aboard the ship, personnel of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies, staff
of Maritime State University and the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian
Academy of Sciences carried out a survey of the radiological situation
following the breakdown at the Japanese Fukushima-1 nuclear power station.
In 2003-2004, the sail-ship circumnavigated the globe, dedicating the
voyage to the bicentenary of the circumnavigation by Russian seamen under
the command of Ivan Krusenstern and Yuri Lisyansky and retraced the route
covered by the sloops Nadezhda and Neva. During that circumnavigation the
sail-ship spent 14 months at sea, logging 45,000 nautical miles.