The owner was The Christian Radich Sail Training Foundation, which was established by a grant from an officer of that name.

The class society of the vessel is Det Norske Veritas, DNV, and is built to +1A1, E0.

[citation needed] The tall ship Christian Radich is well known through the international release of the 1958 Cinemiracle movie Windjammer.

[3] The vessel was initially built to train sailors in the Norwegian merchant navy, and did so for many years.

In 1980, the vessel won the OpSail 80 race from Boston, USA to Kristiansand, Norway, taking 17 days to do so.