This year the chocolate bars of the Grenada Chocolate Company will be delivered by bike to the stores throughout The Netherlands! A caravan of bikers will bring them to several stores and their clients will be able to enjoy the first (ever!) 100% fair transport chocolate - now thát tastes good!
If you want to support this good cause and enjoy riding your bike, please contact us and you can join this special event. Most likely around June 10 or 11, the plans will be revealed on this website, or mail us at fiets@chocoladeboot.nl
Looking forward to have many bikers spread the word and the chocolate,...
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For the second trip, the Grenada Chocolate Company is taking on board 50.000 chocolate bars... The ship is leaving today from Grenada and you can follow the voyage on the ship tracker and also on Mott's blog!
Enjoy and more news coming up soon!
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Sailing vessel Tres Hombres is on its way to Amsterdam after a nearly 8-month trading voyage around the Atlantic. Just as the sailing habit in the 18th century, the ship will first arrive at the Texel. In Den Helder is a part of her cargo will be unloaded. Then Monday she will continue to sail the old VOC route to Enkhuizen harbor and Tuesday to Amsterdam. Wednesday, June 6th is the official arrival at Het Scheepvaartmuseum in Amsterdam.
The journey began last October in Den Helder. The first ports where the ship passed were in Europe: Brixham, Brest and Porto. For loading and unloading...
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How Captain Longhair saved the world is a movie about a man who wants to make a difference. When Haiti was hit by a devastating earthquake on January 12th 2010, captain Arjen van der Veen decided to load his cargo ship with aid supplies. Together with his eleven crew members he sails across the Atlantic ocean in a mission to help the people of Haiti.
Watch the trailer below and join the presentation of the movie by Maarten Kal in Amsterdam on June 12 and June 13.
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Week seven at sea has passed again and brings the ship very close to their first destination; Portsmouth UK. Winds have changed a couple of times and eventually turned for some 'racing towards home' as the end of the voyage is already coming near now. Read below about the highlights past week and find full texts on Mott's blog and the Tres Hombres blog;
'The Tres Hombres has a nice start now, moving swiftly along with a good breeze in a good direction toward Portsmouth, England for the big chocolate delivery.
Back in the 19th century this route, we take from the Azores to Europe, was often...
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The first time I heard that just 15 of the world's biggest ships emit as much pollution as all the world's 760m cars I was shocked. That is outrages! Pollution from ships is very little regulated. Shipping emissions have escalated in the past 15 years as China has emerged as the world's manufacturing capital. To ship all this cargo, a new intercontinental container ship has been developed which is extremely cost-efficient. However, it uses diesel engines as powerful as land-based power stations but with the lowest quality fuel.... I guess because we don't actually see it, so we don't know it. Other...
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The impressive beauty of the Brigatine Tres Hombres when sailing on open sea - especially in the scenery of the caribbean but also in Northerns seas;) - some video's show it all;
on the IJsselmeer (NL)
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Since the departure from Grenada, end of March, the ship and its crew (and the 24.000 bars of chocolate!) have been mainly at sea. One wonders here on land how it is to pass such long periods on the sea, being surrounded only by endless views of water, day and night. Captain Jorne made a blog post on the ship's blog, to explain (or at least try, as he says). His original Dutch text is translated here, and I've added some pictures that the crew has made earlier on this voyage on the sea - views speak for themselves...
THE SEA, BY CAPTAIN JORNE
(Original version of the text in Dutch...
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The end of last week the Tres Hombres crew set foot on land again, for the first time since three weeks of sea. They've arrived in the Azores and spent the week there on the Island Faial, preparing to continue their journey later this week.
So a short overview of the week, with some quotes of Mott's blog;
'On Monday, Charlie and I hitched a few rides to the other side of this Island, Faial, and walked up a mountain through some tine villages. It was incredibly beautiful. This island has an amazing mixed terrain of green grass and bits of thick forest with a kind of mixed foliage, sub-tropical...
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As the voyage over seas of the Grenada Chocolate on board the Tres Hombres continues, they have already been sailing for 4 weeks now. I've made a compilation of several highlights of their stories on board this last week before arriving to the Azores today. A selection of the blog that Mott is writing from the ship;
'This chocolate delivery vessel I have been crossing the ocean on for the past 22 days is very fast. The only vessel I have sailed that is faster is my little 4 meter Hobie Cat on which I deliver chocolate from Grenada to Carriacou, a 20 mile journey I make in as little...
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