We left the harbour with the last Northerly wind of the day and once outside quickly Southerly wind came, so for the first time (for me), we went to the Atlantic ocean by the north of La Palma. It is always tricky to leave this harbour because the wind often changes a little inside the […]
Here comes a message from the ocean, the Atlantic Ocean. It seems like we are here forever. Time is passing by… We started with sunshine and good east wind in Den Helder, with 8 men, and 7 women heading towards the Channel. After some time we passed strong winds, and everything was flying around. Peanut butter […]
We’ve been visited by some elegant gulls, a cormorant, a falcon, dolphins and a fin whale. So little wind that we brailed up the main and doused other staysails to protect them and stop the noisy flapping. Rolling smoothly, the crew goes to bed on one side and wakes up on the other side. Very […]
Travelling through infinite sceneries even though they may look the same on the surface. Bizarre images of ships that look like blockhouses… sometimes seeing only their silhouette in the fog or in the middle of the sunset painted in the deepest orange and dark blue of the water. Dolphins playing in the water… jellyfish… glowing […]
Saviez vous qu´en anglais, les bateaux sont genrés au féminin ? Quand j´ai envoyé ma candidature pour naviguer sur le Tres Hombres, j´ai imaginé que j´allais devoir cohabiter avec des hommes pendant plus de trente jours, dans un espace réduit, en pleine mer, sans autre échappatoire que de grimper dans les voiles. Heureusement, en parcourant […]
“Tres Hombres, Tres Hombres, Tres Hombres, this is Cherbourg Traffic, what is your intention please?” Dear lady on the VHF radio, we are going to Copenhagen, is this not clearly visible? Clearly not, because this is the 3rd time the French traffic control has called us up to check on our actions. If you look […]
This winter I have been taking some time off sailing and got busy in the headquarters of Fairtransport in Den Helder, and once the refit was over and the ship left, I decided to stay in the office, keen to be involved more in the work “behind the sails”, as I like to call it. […]
On June 15th I boarded Tres Hombres in Copenhagen with no sailing experience beyond being a passenger a handful of times and having never stepped foot on a tall ship. Since my first time sailing, I have dreamed of travelling the world by sea this way but questioned where and how to start the undoubtedly […]
We left Denmark, our good friends at Hawila, our old ones in Bornholm and Copenhagen and our new ones in Hundested, behind. We also greeted quite a few fellow shipmates who are badly missed on board and made our journey very special till now. And I left the galley as well, swapped it for the […]
Over the past month, I’ve been discovering the world, through sailing on the engineless sailing cargo vessel Tres Hombres. The journey from France to Denmark has been an incredible and unique experience. After receiving the initial safety and climbing training and a galley and ropy tour, I was invited to work alongside the crew. The […]
