In 2002 the
Guayas undertook a voyage along the west coast of North America with port of calls at Acapulco, San Diego, Los Angeles, Monterey, San Francisco, and Seattle. In 2008, the
Guayas crossed the
Pacific Ocean to visit
Vladivostok,
Japan,
Korea, and
China. On the Osaka-Pusan-Shanghai leg of this her first Asian trip the
Guayas took aboard an officer of the
Chinese navy for
reefing training. By the end of 2008 the
Guayas had visited 60 harbours in 25 countries and covered about in its life. In 2010, she participated in
Velas Sudamerica 2010, an historical
Latin American tour by eleven tall ships to celebrate the
bicentennial of the first national governments of Argentina and
Chile.
Guayas has also participated in
OpSail 2012, visiting New York, Norfolk, Baltimore, and Boston, before proceeding to Europe. In the same year, it participated in the
Tall Ships Race 2012. On 8 January 2016,
Guayas arrived in Sydney as part of a round-the-world training cruise, the longest (35,000 nautical miles) such cruise performed so far by this ship, during which 22 countries will be visited. This is the first visit to Australia since 1988. In October 2021,
Guayas interdicted and captured a
narco-submarine off the coast of Colombia.
Guayas crew arrested the submarine's four-person crew and seized its cargo, which was estimated by
USNI News as being of
cocaine. ==References==