Watch: Sailing
Cape Verde to Brazil, and Amazon Expedition
We are looking for a passionate and dedicated crew to learn about sailing on a traditional wooden ship. We are a big crew of 8-14 people with all kinds of ages and from many countries. With our concept of LIVE - LEARN - SAIL we are living together like a family, sharing skills, working on the boat together, and having a nice party once in a while. Joining our project involves hard work, creative ideas, and teamwork.
Being a member of our sailing club means you have the opportunity to join the boat wherever for sailing as well as working on maintaining it or being involved in one of the bigger projects, like our newest one: Crossing the Atlantic and go to Brazil on an Amazon Expedition
Together we will grow and overcome the obstacles that repairing the boat and sailing might bring. This is not a Caribbean cruise vacation, this is something you'll learn from and remember for the rest of your life along with making new friends and experiencing something few people have a chance to do. This is not a 2 or 3 weeks sailing vacation trip, it is an ongoing sailing project you're welcome to come and spend what time you can and are always welcome back later.
We are looking for new crew members to join us for our newest projects: the Atlantic crossing, from Cape Verde to Brazil as well as for an Amazon expedition, where we will be doing research and hands-on studies and look at the ecological disaster that's unfolding
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Fun and challenging experience
I wanted to learn how to sail and live on a boat for a longtime. This year the dream became true! I didn't have any expectations, when I finally came on board from the very beginning I was living the dream...a true wooden boat...Like the ones in the pirate movies ;) Immediately I was welcomed by Dave and the crew members with an interesting chat, something was going on the boat before I came, the atmosphere was a bit tense. They didn’t offer me tea or hot chocolate but a nice bottle of rum. The first 2-3 days I was a bit disoriented because I was so excited that I wanted to do everything but I didn't know where to begin and I wasn't familiar with all the stuff going on the boat or the tools that I needed. I was pretty much an observer and, then after those few days we were working a lot together from sanding, painting and also tightening the rigging, learning the basic knots, varnish the top mast, dive and of course the various procedures to sail. There are always things to work on the boat, but Dave gives you also the total freedom to choose how you can live the days on the Labora, it is up to you, if you're motivated and keen to learn you'll never get bored and you'll learn A LOT! Otherwise Dave will throw you overboard! ;-) I would totally recommend to get on Labora if you're not afraid to get your hands dirty and to be shouted out from the Captain or hear long lectures about life from him! The first time it is interesting to hear some paranoid speeches about humankind but after the 50th time a bit less...For me it has been a life experience, It has broadened my horizon of sailing life, I really must say a big thank you to the boat itself, to Dave and to the crew, they taught me a lot and I have a connection with them even because being on this boat it is psychologically challenging! Labora became sort of a person: the history, the wood, the rigging, the problems....At the end of the day I felt I was in the right place in the right time.
30th Aug 2020