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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
