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KvK-nummer: 41042397

RSIN: 8042.42.458

Boardcomposition

Board composition
as of August 15, 2020

Sabine Fox, Chairman
Joop Harrems, Secretary / Treasurer
Arjen van der Veen, Board member
Andreas Lackner, Board Member
Christiaan Veltman, Board member
Hans Bais, Board Member

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Our new @treshombres.rum is out! We are proud an

Our new @treshombres.rum is out!

We are proud and excited to launch the edition 36 of our ever growing line of great rums: La Palma Puro Bio, produced by our dear friends in La Palma and sailed for more than 10.000 miles by our brave ship and crew!
Ron Aldea was founded in 1936 by the Quevedo family, who has been mastering the art of distillation for 4 generations now. Their knowledge has been passed on through the decades and the family has kept the processes almost unchanged since the early days.
The distillery is located on a stunning coast washed by the waves of the Atlantic where the sugar cane plantations grow on steep volcanic slopes. The sugar cane of Ron Aldea has recently been fully certified as Organic and therefore this is the first edition we can call Puro Bio, although their methods of production have always been honest and authentic, in respect of tradition and nature.
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What makes their rum so unique is the direct distillation of the Guarapo (freshly milled sugar cane juice) instead of using the molasses, a residue of the sugar production. The wood-fired distillation column, where the juice is transformed into rum, is manned by the family members, who also control the natural
fermentation of the juice, securing only the highest quality to their rum.
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All this got perfectly enhanced by the sailors of Tres Hombres, who brought in a barrel of Moscatel wine, wherein the rum could age for seven months at sea, earning a warm golden tan and a whole new range of aromas. The result is a fruity, smooth rum with lots of character even if young and literally grown up at sea!
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After bottling the barrel in Noord-Holland the rum finally gets hand sealed by our office team with locally sourced beeswax, coloured with natural pigments produced by a Dutch windmill.
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Visit our webshop to purchase this bottle and find out more about our range of sail shipped delicacies!

https://fairtransport.eu/webshop/

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It was under a hot sun and a blue sky that Tres Ho

It was under a hot sun and a blue sky that Tres Hombres got fully emptied. The last boxes that were on board arrived safely to their ultimate destination in Gudhjem, Bornholm.

These wines come from a dozen of french producers who have been personally met and carefully picked on their own fields and chosen in the heart by Maria and Thomas, our partners, the passionate owners and souls behind @sabotoeren in Copenhagen and @provianten in Bornholm. Every year the couple travels to France to visit their old friends and hunt for new producers to add to their networks of winemakers. The human relationships that bind this community together are of rare beauty and this is, therefore, the highest value of our cargo and work.
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First, the ship moved from one side to the other of the harbour to get closer to the bar, only by human force by pulling on the mooring lines. As an engineless shipping company, we always try to reach the shortest walkable distance from the cargo hold to the delivering point. And our crew very often succeeds brilliantly!
Then, friends and locals came down to the little port and gathered on the quayside by the ship to help out with the labeling, while the bar staff was busy with the stowing, delighted to welcome their new collection of natural wines on the island.
Any big event, no-frills and loud speeches, only a normal, authentic, beautiful working day between friends. Because this should be ordinary rather than the extraordinary and it doesn´t need much noise to be meaningful. As well as the ship sails silently between the billows to arrive here, Maria and Thomas welcomed their cargo with humbleness and simplicity. They firmly believe in sail cargo as much as they trust and honor their wine producers. They are fighters, believers, anchored to the ground and their ethics, animated by a rare generosity and a true spirit. Real as the wines they offer, the food they cook, the passion they share.
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This little happy crowd celebrated the event with a cozy barbecue by the sea, soaked in the golden light of the late baltic sunset tasting the best-fermented grape juices on Earth!

Photo credits @niciwegener

Our good ship landed in the little village of Gudh

Our good ship landed in the little village of Gudhjem, on the east coast of Bornholm, Denmark, a green island situated in the heart of the Baltic sea where our vessels have sailed to every summer since 2015.
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The entrance of this harbour could be perfectly described as a bottleneck, it is so narrow that it would provide pure thrills even to the saltiest sailor.
15 meters wide and closely surrounded by shallow sharp rocks that poke out from the surface of the sea, shooting the ship into this gap is a very delicate task to achieve with 125 tons of floating engineless wood, and stopping it at the right moment is even more critical.
The surgical precision required to operate such maneuver with a larger vessel fully under sails is an outstanding proof of skills and knowledge. Especially if the winds aren't particularly fair.
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The tiredness of a night spent tacking around the island mixed with the excitement of a maneuver that announced to be particularly challenging built up a surreal atmosphere on board.
The crew was silent, only the commands of Captain Andreas could be heard. Tension was palpable, the concentration at its highest.
After a quick cup of coffee and half a slice of bread, everyone was ready to get it done. The topsail was dropped as last only few meters from the quay, the bow slid in, the lines made fast and finally, the ship was fully in and moored, far from any dangers. The joy exploded on deck as onshore, where a local committee of old and new friends gathered to welcome the ship and the crew. Suddenly, a mighty voice raised in the air. Ursula, the local opera singer, was there to offer her traditional welcoming: a vibrating song that froze the Time and got straight into the heart of everyone present, pulling out some drops of salty water from the crew's eyes. An unforgettable epic moment, soaked into magic and beauty, nothing better to mark such an arrival!
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Video by @niciwegener

Thousands and thousands of bottles of the finest f

Thousands and thousands of bottles of the finest french natural wine and the two barrels of Anjou Olivier Cousin have been unloaded by our crew, together with a wonderful team of friends and volunteers gathered around our partners @rosforthrosforth @sabotoeren @denvandrette and with the precious help of the professional crew of the sail cargo @hawilaproject who joined the common effort.

The peer was buzzing with all sorts of activities: once the boxes are handed over from ship to shore, they get opened and each bottle has to be branded with our Cargo Under Sails label before being packed and dispatched.

Each one of these thousands of bottle ends up finally on the shelves and tables of the best wine bars and restaurants in town where passionate and expert teams of wine lovers tell the stories of the makers and the sailors that made this produces arrive to their glasses.

Copenaghen is a natural wine loving city and we definitely felt the passion people here have for our cargo, our ship and our mission. The support and the welcoming we received once again are overwhelming and make us feel stronger and stronger together, keeping doing what we do how we do it.

We wish to thank all the people who came and helped us with their energy, time and smiles. Doing things fully by hands takes lots of labour but by being together this effort becomes the pure celebration of the values we stand and sail for.
A special thanks also goes to @madmedmening who prepared the delicious colourful meal we enjoyed in the sun using only organically sourced food.

Off we go now, next stop: Bornholm to reach our friends @proviantengudhjem !

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Meanwhile Tres Hombres is in Copenaghen to deliver

Meanwhile Tres Hombres is in Copenaghen to deliver the cargo of french natural wine, our land crew has been busy in Amsterdam @kaapdegroenehoopndsm unloading 25 tons of coffee and cacao beans from the ship Gallant which have been sailed by the @blueschoonercompany crew from Colombia back to Europe.

We are very glad and excited to see our network growing, to welcome more ships and partners joining our efforts towards a cleaner shipping of organic goods.

Well done and congratulations to all the sailors of the ship who successfully completed another transatlantic season, doing what they do best: sailing cargo!
Thanks to our friends, customers and partners, for believing in us and filling up our cargos allowing Fairtransport to bring on positive messages of change.

@atinkana_kaffee
@sv_brigantes
@klimabohne
@cafe_chavalo
@laflor_schokolade
@kaffairhamburg
@cdc_coupdechocolat

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Tres Hombres arriving in Copenhagen on Monday even

Tres Hombres arriving in Copenhagen on Monday evening blessed by a golden sunset after 12 days of sailing from Les Sables d' Olonne.
After a rough stormy beginning in Biscay, the crossing went smoother in the English Channel and the North Sea. The fair winds which carried the ship turned against us once we passed Skagerrak. The crew had to face a challenging low pressure and prove what they know and learned, facing strong winds up to 35 knots tacking in high seas and pouring rain in Kattegat waters before entering safely in the narrow Sound Strait at night. Once again our Captain Andreas and our brave crew showed to the world that engineless sailing is a fine art.
Well done everyone!
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Sails have been our propulsion till the very last moment and dropped only when lines have been made fast to the boat of HP and Andreas, who are our tug boat friends since our early days in Copenaghen.
On board there was our partner and importer, Sune, a long time friend of Fairtransport and the real legend of natural wine in Copenaghen. A passionate wine trader and a pure sail cargo enthusiast. It is a pleasure to be back in a place where we always feel home. Thanks to @rosforthrosforth team for being so awesome and such a warm welcome.
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Tomorrow the unloading operations of cargo of French fine wines will begin and the celebration which traditionally goes with, will give rhythm to the work. If you are in Copenhagen and you want to pass by and see what sail cargo looks and feels like, Knippelsbro is the place to be in town!

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