We are almost one week into our journey. It feels like we left Ushuaia quite a while ago but we are still only at the very beginning. The Falkland Islands are behind us now. After an initial slow start and...
After our slow start on the first two days, with winds topping out at just 2 Bft, we finally started moving for real on the early morning of the 29th. The morning also brought clear skies, so that was a...
Extraordinary situations demands extraordinary measures and sacrifices. We are leaving. We are sailing back to the Netherlands. Europa embarks on what will be its most unique journey. From Ushuaia, we will cross the...
>> Anything is bearable if you can make a story out of it. N.Scott Momaday << Anything, including the unprecedented situation that has been put on in our path, where...
Slowly edging towards the equator, and 1200km away from the nearest landmass, the Bark EUROPA has already experienced much excitement sinceembarking from the last port in Sal, Capo Verde. Only 11 days into thejourney,...
Pushing onward from the Canary Islands, the trade winds picked up making trawling ever more complicated with the increasing speed of the ship. With distance to land, the abundance of plankton quickly declined, as both...
A sailor’s work is never done. During Bark Europa’s transatlantic crossing from Tenerife to Montevideo, the whole crew worked very hard on the yards in replacing the ship’s four top sails fore & aft. It...
18 47,4 N 021 27,1 W 4.8 kts It's been already 5 days since we left Tenerife. While we were preparing the departure all of a sudden the wind picked up from the NE so we could sail the Europa without the use of...
Douwe Teerling (18) en Maurits Oosterloo (24) zijn de eerste twee jongeren die door het fonds Vrienden van EUROPA en Kees Gerritse zijn geselecteerd om mee te varen met het Nederlandse Tall Ship. Meteen na de selectie stond...
Na het bezoek aan St. Helena zijn jullie in vijf dagen naar Ascension Island gevaren. Kunnen jullie deze 5 dagen beschrijven? Na St Helena zijn we door gevaren naar Ascension Island. deze oversteek duurde 5 dagen. voor...