Sail Training Association Germany

Founded in 1984 as a not-for-profit organisation, STAG’s main purpose is the education, development and support of young people of all nationalities through sail training. Its members include 50 sail training vessels and over 5,000 individual members. The organisation operates a bursary programme for sail training vessels and individual trainees.

The Sail Training Association Germany (STAG) was founded in 1984 based on the example of an English Sail Training Organization in order to be able to look after German young people, adults, ship owners and port cities more intensively. Today the STAG has over 4000 members, more than 30 member ships and several member ports and promotes non-profit and non-profit young people who cannot fully finance a sail training trip on a sailing ship themselves. Funding comes from donations and membership fees.

The STAG is officially recognized as a “corporation particularly worthy of support” according to § 5 (1.9) KStG and as a provider of free youth welfare in the state of Bremen.

The Sail Training Association Germany (STAG) has several charitable tasks:

• Financial support for sailing trips on traditional sailing ships for young people
• Help in contacting Sail Training vessels
• Advice for fellow sailors, the so-called trainees
• Information and contact to the international Sail Training community as a founding member of the organization ” Sail Training International ” in Gosport/UK

A special relationship exists between the German Foundation Sail Training (DSST) and STAG, which is represented in its function as the 1st sponsor on the DSST Supervisory Board. Since it was founded, STAG has been particularly committed to the DSST’s three-masted barque, the first “Alexander von Humboldt” , and subsequently also to the new construction of the “Alexander von Humboldt II” .

STAG is also a member of the Joint Commission for Historic Watercraft (GSHW) , the German umbrella organization for traditional ships. There she represents the national interests of traditional sailing ships to the Federal Ministry of Transport in relation to safety issues on traditional ships.