ocean voyage

[mrb]

This might be of interest so some interested in sailing different types of sailing craft.  A trans Atlantic voyage.     atlantiswebsite.homested.com/31days    A group of young people who build their own  "cargo ship" and sail it across the Atlantic  more info at some of their other sites.
tried giving the complete address then hit on it and it didn't bring me to the page so I did a search with above info and it brought the page up.

I am using yahoo search

[Oldrig]

I haven't been able to find anything like what you're describing. If you have a link, could you send it?

Thanks,

--Joe

[mrb]

try       31days atlantiswebsite      search on yahoo,      That brings me to search result page with
  31days atlantis fairtransport shipbrokers        as the first item on the page.      that is te site.

have a sleeping grandson on chest for last 3 hours so kind of slow.

[Oldrig]

Thanks mrb:

I found the site. My Dutch isn't very good, but I got some of what the promoter of the company was saying.

Last week I was discussing relief shipments to Haiti with a friend, and a neighbor who just got back from two months on Haiti. They mentioned that there was an organization that was trying to ship supplies via sailing freighter, and that's one of this company's projects.

On a related note: There's a three-masted schooner that's moored not too far from me. Called the "Black Seal," she was built from an old fishing trawler by an Alaska fishing skipper who spends his off-duty months on Cape Cod. He is apparently trying to start using his vessel to haul freight. He tried to send a shipment of rebuilt bicycles to Haiti, but said the bureaucracy was so impenetrable that he delivered to bikes somewhere else in the Caribbean instead.

I'm not sure that sailing freighters will be profitable in the immediate future, especially as the price of oil is dropping (at the moment), but it would be an interesting idea--except, of course, off Somalia.

--Joe
P.S. don't wake that grandkid!

[mrb]

Oldrig   Did you include the     ( 31 days ) in your search.  You should have found a site where some young people built a type of old Dutch sailing vessel called a "Schonker"     The name of their boat is "Pierius Magnus"   about 30 ft. on deck perfectly flat bottom  2 cabins and a cargo hold.    I just now searched pierius magnuson yahoo and the search page listed 2 yutube vidios of them 1 building the boat and haven't looked at the 2nd part but looks to show the boat under sail.  

[skylark]

I helped build the Pierius Magnus and was one of two people who sailed it across Lake Michigan on its first Lake crossing.

http://atlantisconstruction.homestead.com/index.html

[Oldrig]

Oldrig   Did you include the     ( 31 days ) in your search.  You should have found a site where some young people built a type of old Dutch sailing vessel called a "Schonker"     The name of their boat is "Pierius Magnus"   about 30 ft. on deck perfectly flat bottom  2 cabins and a cargo hold.    I just now searched pierius magnuson yahoo and the search page listed 2 yutube vidios of them 1 building the boat and haven't looked at the 2nd part but looks to show the boat under sail.  

Thanks for the clarification. Your original directions led me to a page about Pierus Magnus' voyage, but I then went back to the company's home page -- missing entirely the story about the Schonker restoration.  I was kind of wondering what that boat had to do with the "ecofreighters."

There are a few heavy, old-style Dutch boats with leeboards around the Northeast (two in Wickford, RI,) the last time I checked. I'm not sure how fast they are, but they sure look sturdy.

--Joe

PS: Thanks, Skylark, for that link. 

[mrb]

Skylark  She is a pretty boat, congratulations on being part of her.  Would like to hear how she sailed And is she a stable boat.  The voyage across the Atlantic looks as if it could have been fun at times but they also underestimated the days and as reported carried about half the food and water needed so they must have been on serious short rations for a while.  A boat like this should be able to carry an excess of food, water and spares along with the cargo.

[skylark]

Where did you find the story about crossing the Atlantic?  I don't think I have read that yet.  I believe they ended up in the Azores.

It was a fun experience, they came to town on the Europa and decided to jump ship because they liked it here.  Then they told everyone about their dream of a sail powered cargo ship and started drawing up plans.  Many people in town helped them out with materials and donations, it was fun.

The boat was very sturdy and stable.  The rudder was heavy and hard to turn.  We were approaching Racine WI after crossing the Lake at about 0400, pitch black. The captain found the harbor lights and I was on the rudder, working hard to keep us on track.  We had no motor and the boat did not sail into the wind very well.  We probably could have tacked away from shore but I dont know that for sure.  We were trying to thread the needle with the wind pushing us toward shore with maybe 6 foot waves. At one point I looked and saw a breakwater right in front of us and yelled, but it turned out to be just a wave with reflections of streetlights on it.  That was a real adventure and we made it through and anchored and got some sleep.

[mrb]

I have found it by searching yahoo  31days pierius magnus   That will get you to result page with a couple of articals about them.  the one 31 days tells of voyage. Actualy it is the Azores to caneries  section.