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 […]
LOCATION NOTES: La Palma, also named “La Bonita”, is known for her Jurassic wild flora, black sandy volcanic beaches, and for delighting the visitors at night with one of the purest skies in the whole Northern hemisphere. It is also one of the steepest islands in the world: the top of its main volcano raises […]
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 […]
This post is for those who thought that we could spend all this time at sea without bread. Let me tell you that we could not! If you already tried to bake bread, you might have experienced that it is a real learning curve, and onboard taught us to let go and trust our fellow […]
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 […]
For more than 10 years Tres Hombres is carrying cocoa beans from the Dominican Republic back to Amsterdam. On Thursday, the 24th of February the Tres crew went on a field trip to the backland of the island to meet the farmers of the cooperative Conacado. The inner backland is the agricultural centre of the […]
