Class C boats are defined as:

"modern rigged vessels (i.e Bermudan rigged sloops, ketches, yawls and schooners) with a length overall of less than 40 metres and with a waterline length of at least 9.14 metres not carrying spinnaker-like sails."

In this class, there were 40 vessels competing and an impressive total of 150 over all 4 classes.

The race began on the 5th July from the port of Gdynia in Poland and they sailed to St Petersburg, Russia. Each boat incurred a complex handicap system designed to even out the differences in technical design, age, experience and the number of crew. The objective for competing had always been simply for nostalgia. To this end, Rick Birkett was in charge of hiring and coordinating the 8 to 9 crew needed for each of the 2 races.

Race 1 has a scheduled completion time of 6 days. Watch leader Sam Dell was surprised how rough the Baltic sea was. "My grandfather had told me the Baltic's were calm because they are inland. I was shocked to discover they were much rougher than I expected". Maybe successfully completed her first race in decades by finishing in 21st place with a time of 2 days, 22 hours and 28 minutes (corrected time).

In between Race 1 and Race 2 Maybe took part in a 'cruise in company' event. This consists of all the boats sailing together in a large fleet over several days. Maybe sailed from St Petersburg to Turku in Finland stopping off at other ports along the way to huge crowds.

The Tall Ships Races is more than just a race, its a way to offer training opportunities to young would be sailors with various levels of experience. Offical rules state that 50% of the crew must be younger that 25. Several of the crew in fact had no sailing experience at all, let alone sailing on the sea in a classic ketch. Sam said "this was both a hard and an intense introduction for the crew without experience."

For long journeys, the crew is split into watches operating 6 hours on, 12 hours off. Steve, Sam and Simon Worsnop coordinated their teams as watch leaders. As each watch finishes their shift, it is their responsibility to provide hot drinks and food for the new shift. In addition, the cleaning rotas are split equally between everyone.