MEET OUR DECKHAND ALINA Age: 32 Nationality: GERMAN Position on board: DECKHAND Former occupation on land (aka how do you keep yourself busy when you are not sailing)? Before joining the world of tall ship sailing, I was employed as a social worker providing psycho-social support, care, and protection for children. I also used to […]
MEET OUR SECOND MATE – GUVEN Name: GUVEN Age: 28 Nationality: FRENCH Position on board: SECOND MATE Former occupation on land (or how do you keep yourself busy when you are not sailing)? I am sailing! And when I am not sailing, I am usually volunteering for sailing projects or helping on a refit. I […]
So three months have already passed since we left Den Helder. We’ve visited several ports and cities, survived the bay of Biscay, sailed past a volcano island, and crossed the Atlantic ocean. We finally arrived in the Caribbean. To be honest, it took me a moment – and another look at the map – to […]
MEET OUR SHIP’S COOK Name: EDDIE Age: 32 Nationality: ENGLISH Position on board: COOK Former occupation on land (or how do you keep yourself busy when you are not sailing)? I am working for New Dawn Traders. I am an acupuncturist, carer and set builder. Which book, film, song and/or event inspired and sparked in […]
For this short report, a selection of aspiring, novice, and salty sailors have been chosen as participants. This motley crew is being subjected to a series of ongoing experiments, courtesy of the Mid-Atlantic Wind Fund – whose investment has been considerable. We thank it for fair winds, hours of laughter, a few sprains, burns, and […]
Aboard the good ship Tres Hombres, many fledgling sailors learn to walk the ship as she rolls, pitches and flies over the water. Learning to walk again takes time and is a great source of entertainment for both the new sailors and the seasoned crew. Here I want to describe some of the different techniques […]
Three captains Three First mates Four second mates Four cooks Nineteen nationalities Six different bunks Two hammocks 16 harbours 60 knots in the gusts Ten tons of cacao 130 barrels 40.000 bottles of wine (roughly) 20.000 nautical miles (very roughly) Just some numbers of these last two years. Some of those numbers don’t mean much […]
7 days at sea, which is pretty speedy for this leg. We seem to be just speeding the whole thing really. Which is both amazing and exhilarating to be travelling so fast, but also exhausting as that means that the boat is moving and lurching all over the place all of the time. Walking from […]
Not much has been written here about the inner world of the Tres, i.e., what lies below its deck. Before I was able to set foot on board, I have always been curious about what’s there. Now I can report from first-hand experience. Beginning with the bow, there is the locker, where various things are […]
Emotional farewell at the port. Tears are wiped away quickly by the fresh wind. Hectic activity onboard redirects my attention: Sails need to be launched! Where again was the halyard for the inner jib? I can’t remember but someone tells me where it is. Once the course is set everyone is assigned to one of […]
