vessels.

First to arrive -- and the smallest of the group -- was the 68-foot-long Danish registered schooner Saga , said a Harbour Radio spokesman.

The vessel berthed alongside Penno's Wharf in St. George's upon arrival from Fort Lauderdale on Sunday. The spokesman said the vessel was planning to head for the Azores when she left but he did not know when that would be.

On Monday, the Thor Heyerdahl , Mariette and Corwith Cramer arrived from Havana, the Canary Islands and Key West respectively and berthed at Penno's Wharf.

The spokesman said the 164-foot-long three-masted-topsail-schooner Thor Heyerdahl was a German registered private sail training vessel which was due to leave on April 15 although he was not aware of her destination.

Meanwhile the Mariette , he continued, was a privately-owned schooner. It is 109 feet in length and registered in the Isle of Man. It stopped off in Bermuda while en route to Newport, he added.

And Corwith Cramer is here for a couple of days with 36 people on board, said the spokesman. The 134-foot-long brigantine does sea education classes for Massachusetts based Wood's Hole Oceanographic Institute.

She was joined by her sister ship Westward yesterday. The 125-foot brig has sea education classes for the same organisation and was last in Key West as well. It has 34 people on board and is berthed at Ordinance Island.

Photos by Arthur Bean CLASSIC TRIO -- The schooners Corwith Cramer (top), Saga (far left) and the three-masted topsail cargo schooner Thor Heyerdahl (top left) are shown berthed at Penno's Wharf in St. George's. The US-registered Corwith Cramer and the German-registered Thor Heyerdahl arrived on April 7 while the Saga -- which is Danish-registered -- pulled in the day before.