at the Maritiem Museum Rotterdam the half hull model of the EcoClipper500 has been handed over to the founder of the EcoClipper B.V. shipping company: captain Jorne Langelaan, by the constructor, ship carpenter Leo Boogerd in cooperation with Bert van Baar of the bootbouwschool and Cadhead’s Marijke de Jong.
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Zeilreizen op EcoClipper schepen – zeilhelden.nl
Jorne Langelaan is oprichter en directeur van EcoClipper. Onregelmatig geeft hij ons een inkijkje in deze vorm van uitstootvrij varen. De scheepvaart was altijd al, is nog steeds en zal nog lang de levensader van de wereldhandel blijven. De traditionele...
When the cargo is there: you can build the ship.
Connecting with the companies which are interested to have their goods transported sustainably. Today: Hennes Finest.
‘Sail Travel’ – Another part of the EcoClipper ships
Imagine boarding a large, square-rig sailing ship bound for a port across an ocean. You booked a place going out there, and you’ve booked a place coming back…
Sail Cargo, Why Now?
The technology is there, the projects are there, the people are excited, the wind blows but somehow developments take forever.
Sail Cargo in the 21st Century
Sail cargo is the transportation of goods using a renewable form of energy – wind power – and a combination of traditional and modern sail technologies.image Wiebe Radstake- fairtransport
EcoClipper team has wind in their sails, public opinion on their side
EcoClipper founder believes sustainable transport 'is at a tipping point globally' due to the shocking effects of the coronavirus pandemic' https://www.tradewindsnews.com/insight/ecoclipper-team-has-wind-in-their-sails-public-opinion-on-their-side/2-1-813482
EcoClipper breathes new life into sail power in the age of social media
Dutch outfit EcoClipper says 'the concept has proven itself in the 21st century' tradewindsnews.com/regulation/ecoclipper-breathes-new-life-into-sail-power-in-the-age-of-social-media/2-1-813441
Meet the captain plotting a shipping revolution from his kitchen table
Jorne Langelaan is trying to make a childhood dream a reality by ‘scaling up’ a return to sailing cargo ships as a ‘new’ sustainable industry slowly emerges from the past....
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New Year, New U-bend
Refurbishing the ship’s rigging, working on the ship’s steel- and ropework, cleaning sails, and making new sail covers. Below decks, the steel and electric work continues, and some skilled carpenters have joined our team, refitting floors, bunks and partition walls.
Sail Cargo logistics, for those who care about our future.
Or the truth about the consequences of not switching back to wind powered transport.
Tacking a brigantine
Tacking is turning the ship, from having the wind blowing from one side of the ship, to the other side, and doing this by bringing the bow through the wind…