Hi there! My name is Focaccia and I got the pleasure of joining the Tres Hombres this summer. I am a one year old homing pigeon from Germany and on my way home to Hannover I got lost on the coast of the Netherlands and landed on the deck of the Tres Hombres to take […]
MEET OUR TRAINEE ARCO Age: 60 Nationality: DUTCH Position onboard: TRAINEE Former occupation on land (aka how do you keep yourself busy when you are not sailing)? I am a father of two. I work as occupational health physician, insurance physician, and an instituutsopleider at the Radboud University in Nijmegen (e.g. training new medical specialists). I also volunteer for the local GroenLinks political party, […]
MEET OUR TRAINEE EILISH Age: 23 Nationality: SCOTTISH Position on board: TRAINEE FOR THE WHOLE JOURNEY Former occupation on land aka how do you keep yourself busy when you are not sailing? I am working for an arts company, the “Black Dog Puppet Company”, which is expanding into an arts hub called “Create”. Since the beginning […]
MEET OUR TRAINEE NADINE Age: 25 Nationality:GERMAN Position onboard: TRAINEE FOR THE WHOLE JOURNEY Former occupation on land (or how do you keep yourself busy when you are not sailing)? I work as a nurse and this kept me busy most of the time. I was assisting with heart surgeries. So as my daily business […]
MEET OUR TRAINEE MARKUS Name: MARKUS Age: 32 Nationality: FINNISH Position onboard: TRAINEE FOR THE WHOLE VOYAGE Former occupation on land (or how do you keep yourself busy when you are not sailing)? Arthur [First Mate] would describe me as a gipsy pirate Viking. Which book, film, or song and/or event inspired and sparked in you first the dream of […]
MEET OUR TRAINEE DARIO Name: DARIO Age: 22 Nationality: AUSTRIAN Position onboard: TRAINEE Former occupation on land (or how do you keep yourself busy when you are not sailing)? Acting, clowning, basketball. Which book, film, song and/or event inspired and sparked in you first the dream of a life at sea? Titanic and Castaway. Once […]
MEET OUR DECKHAND THORE Age: 21 Nationality: DANISH Position onboard: DECKHAND Former occupation on land (or how do you keep yourself busy when you are not sailing)? Different stuff, but mostly stuff to do with the sea or anything that pays (I have a rent to pay…). Which book, film, or song and/or event inspired and sparked in you first, the dream […]
MEET OUR FIRST MATE ARTHUR Age: 29 Nationality: ENGLISH Position on board: FIRST MATE Former occupation on land (or how do you keep yourself busy when you are not sailing)? I am a jack of all trades which centers around old wooden ships. Carpenter most commonly. Which book, film, song and/or event inspired and sparked in you first […]
MEET OUR BOSUN CAMILLE Age: 28 Nationality: FRENCH Position on board: BOSUN Former occupation on land (or how do you keep yourself busy when you are not sailing)? I’ve been a physiotherapist, but now for 4 years, I have been working on tall ships. Which book, film, song and/or event inspired and sparked in you first the dream […]
MEET OUR TRAINEE SAM Age: 21 Nationality: FRENCH Position on board: TRAINEE FOR THE WHOLE JOURNEY Former occupation on land (or how do you keep yourself busy when you are not sailing)? I do marine carpentry and I used to work in a shipyard for wooden boats in the South of France. Which book, film, song, and/or event […]
