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Sea Cloud Cruises

From: European Cruise Guide

ABOVE: Sea Cloud (sans sails) in Venice, Italy.

Sea Cloud Cruises is an ultra-luxury line that caters to a sailing crowd. Its flagship vessel, Sea Cloud, is a four-masted barque that was built in 1931 for financier E.F. Hutton and his wife, the cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post.

Sea Cloud Cruises also has two other ships: Sea Cloud II, a modern square-rigger in the classic windjammer tradition, and the three-masted Sea Cloud Spirit, which joined the fleet in 2020.

The company is based in Hamburg, Germany and has an office in the United States, where it has attracted a following among wealthy sailing enthusiasts. (A majority of the company's passengers are American, and service personnel are fluent in English.)

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Sea Cloud Cruises