The sailing vessel "Hobby Star" and her command

The sailing vessel " Hobby Star " under command of skilled naval officer Peter Loboda makes a global cruise over World ocean. The crew of this sailing vessel consist of schoolboys and teenagers in the age of from 8 till 15 years taking a great interest in geography and a history, art and ethnography. The majority of them actively collect stamps, coins and post cards.

For one year of navigation young travellers have visited all continents of our planet and saw many exotic countries and islands. They have learned much interesting that was new to them about a history and culture of various peoples and the states. Ancient stamps, postcards, envelopes and other postal accessories which are the subjects of a collecting assisted them.

Odessa TV Studio "Lad" has recorded a film about this round-the-world travel of sailing vessel and sessions of the Club of Discoverers . The fragments of this film are shown on Sundays on 38-th channel in the program "Kaleidoscope".

Especially young discoverers and collectors like fragments in which it's told about a history of colonial mail and ancient colonial stamps .