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...
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...
Late last evening and during the night we experienced an increase in the wind, backing from W to SW, blowing at 35 kn and gusting closer to 40kn. Steering on a 90º course and braced square we reached speeds over 11kn...
Tijdens de eerste landing op Tristan da Cunha gaat in de namiddag de scheepshoorn van de Europa. De mensen moeten terug naar het haventje lopen want de swells worden te hoog. Het schip deint als een opblaaseendje in een ligbad...
Nights, those dark companions and all the stories which they bear with pockets full of stars, a planet fog, rain and coldness too they bring or breathe a lazy warmth and damp They act as if they´re kings of time but...