Embrace the Journey

Adventure Sailing on Grayhound, 1776 ship design

Sail Cargo worldwide 

Traditional sailing

Welcome!

On board our replica 18th century tall ship, you will learn lots of new skills and get to challenge yourself…

Be assured that the voyages on Grayhound are never the same, but always fun & interesting and every time a little adventure in itself !

Adventure Voyages on Grayhound

If you are looking for a true adventure, you are just in the right place!

We offer day trips & sailing voyages in Brittany, across Biscay, Scottish islands, transatlantic and Caribbean.

Cargo Deliveries: complete your ethical supply chain with our low carbon deliveries – Read about private hire for sail cargo

Check the challenge ratings (little anchors) because some voyages are more demanding! Read about voyages and challenge levels

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Brittany Discovery Sail I

Departure: 2 May 2026 from Douarnenez, FR
Return: 4 May 2026 to Douarnenez, FR

Join traditional lugger Grayhound to discover the best sights & anchorages of Brittany’s stunning coastline…

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Be it your wedding, your birthday, a corporate event, a sea funeral or a movie set: Grayhound is up to hire for private individuals as well as companies!

Dreaming of a private expedition? We will take you to the ends of the earth. There is no limit to where Grayhound sails.

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The Vision:

Care for the Environment

As a traditional sailing ship, we want to show our guests this sustainable and conscious way to travel and encourage them to embrace the natural rhythms imposed by nature. Sailing is a precious reminder that, while the destination is important — be it the Mediterranean, Sweden, Scotland, or the Cape Verde Islands — the journey itself matters most.

I am in love with this boat and definitely planning to join them again! I would recommend this team without any doubts! Good luck, Grayhound! And thank you very much for the great fun!

Dmitriy Ponkratov, September 2022

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Cargo Shipments, Corporate Hire, TV & Film

Do you want to ship cargo with us?

Are you a business seeking a unique venue for client entertainment or team-building exercises?

Are you a TV or film production company needing a fully operational, replica 18th-century ship? 

For all these corporate enquiries please send us an email to info@grayhoundventures.com

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Excellent for education, awful for engagement 🫡 Excellent for education, awful for engagement 🫡🫡 Our new main stay got 30 + min of footage from it’s birth story… ❓ Do we have space for this here on social media? NO! ❓ Will we explain it to you anyways? Of course 🤓 So let’s dive in! ⬇️⬇️ At the very center of our new mainstay is a steel cable. And that needs to be protected, so… 👉First, we add grease on top of it; 👉then the worming, which means very thin hemp rope in between each wire strand, to fill out the gaps <span src=& make a smooth surface. 👉Next comes parcelling - the yellow cotton cloth you see Filémon wrapping around … 👉After that, it will be soaked in tar, or more specifically, our yummy „Gum Mix“: cooked linseed oil + balsamic terpentine. 👉After that, we add another layer of hemp marling - the actual serving. You can see how the tension is conrolled by turns around the rigging mallot & around its handle. Tight tight tight - but don’t rip it! 👉Then, as always, some more tar, of course - before undoing the bottom bit of the stay, to prepare wrapping it around the thimble! ❗️And, yes, a thimble! Not a dead eye - In the video, you see us doing wire seizings on top of a dead eye, but that was for practice only. The real seizings were put on top of the thimble, we just sadly didn’t film that day :/ 👉 We first had to bend the steel wire around the metal eye and then fix it to itself with 3 wire seizings above each other. …and that’s the process on the new stay up until now - the rest of this story (& the remaining work 😬) we left for the spring refit, and for a later post. 😉 ❓Also apart from in-detail stories about the rigging, the refit has been a good one: A new working jib is in the making, and quite a few other smaller things! Great progress, happy faces, new & exciting tasks for the crew working in Douarnenez 💪 Everything to get our beautiful ship ready for a good winter‘s rest, and prepared to start into the new season all fresh & taken care of. ✨😌 Hoping that you, also, are getting ready for a good winters rest to be all ready for sailing with us in the next season, Your Grayhound Crew. #grayhoundvent">

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