Tres Hombres is vNamed after three friends who energetically started a new clean shipping movement in 2007. It connects the route of the engineless brigantine Tres Hombres South, Central & North America and Europe. She transports sustainable, organic and traditionally produced goods and has become a shining example for alternative transport and the entire freight shipping movement. Today she is a global ambassador for freight under sail, transporting up to 40 tonnes of our fairly produced and fairly traded products.
Good examples of this are Tres Hombres Rum, Cocoa, Coffee and Olive Oil!
The life of the brigantine Tres Hombres began in 1943. At that time still without masts and in a wreck-like condition, she was discovered in 2007 by three friends in Delft, in the Netherlands. With an incredible amount of diligence and dedication from many volunteers, she was brought back to life. Within just over 2 years we managed to completely restore the ship and convert it into a sailing ship that now crosses the Atlantic Ocean every year, sails the Northern European seas and covers these long transport distances exclusively with the power of the wind.
To keep the ship in perfect condition, the Tres Hombres undergoes an annual renovation with many volunteers helping and learning the boat building trade.
GENERAL SYNOPSIS: ON BOARD THE TRES HOMBRES THE 23.04.24 AT 13h00 UTC
POS : 45º 58 ‘N, 018 º 56’W COG: 040 º SOG : 3 kts
WIND DIR & SPD: SE 6 kts
CLOUDS:7/8
SEA STATE: calm
SEA TEMP: ºC
AIR TEMP: 13 ºC
AIR PRES: 1028 hPa
All good mood.
We are keeping up with trimming and caring of the ship by changing grommet of the bunt blocks for example, greasing and tallowing here and there, repairing serving, making a bag for all pieces of leather, de-rusting sisters hooks and protect. The broken engine cover was fixed with epoxy and fiberglass in harbor then primer, it gets the flames back today. The inner jib is settled back higher to avoid the vibration of the leech. We still need to repair two new rips in the main sail and we are running out of thread, using the last meters…
Yesterday the crew cooked on the Owen’s day off, it took 5 persons along the day to successfully accomplish the mission in a rolly galley.
Now the high pressure eye is quiet and I can see that Westerly winds will take over to blow us quickly to you in a couple of days. Most of the arrival bets are around the 1st and 3rd of May which would be convenient isn’t it. The most optimistic is on the 27th of April do not miss the patriotic king’s day, the unluckiest on the 12th of May because he never won yet.
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