A poem dedicated to new friends who, together, we crossed the Atlantic on Twister, 2022 (3426 NM). With love, By Luis Kong Atlantic This old lady travels metal to water with her sharp keel slicing swells like a wild horse bucking up and down in the Atlantic rodeo. She’s pushing forward the love of motion and …
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What happens if you put 17 strangers on a boat together for a longggg period of time? An adventure of a lifetime! Happy, tired, and beyond excited we made it safe and sound to the tropics. Last week we arrived in the West Indies after a succesful Atlantic crossing! In this blogpost some photos & …
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She’s off! This Tuesday 07 AM SV Twister set sail out of Amsterdam for a mission around the Atlantic Ocean with a boat load of Ocean Nomads driven for an experience with full ON adventure, impact and community. What a milestone already to reach this point. Thank you everyone involved for helping to make …
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This is Frans Veldstra. Captain of Expedition ON Leg 1,2 and several Caribbean legs. Frans grew up in a seafarer family, both boat builders and seamen. He started racing at a young age sailing regatta’s in Europe and has done many deliveries and captain jobs throughout his life. At a young age he also explored …
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A bit more background on how we go about connecting you to the ocean, each other, and support in accelerating sail boat travel dreams and ambitions. Spontaneous Ocean Nomads Meet-ups Yesterday we rather spontaneous united a boatload full with ocean nomads. All of us about to go on big ocean adventures! But on different …
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Photo: Sailing into Madeira from the Netherlands with SV Twister. Few things are more exciting than travelling by sail into a country A little update about the latest.. I just got off the phone with Paula. Finally we managed to connect after both living a lot in no signal world. Inspired by her mum, …
As sailors, and especially as a community of sailors, we revisit places, we have a unique skillset, and unique opportunity to support with our tools, skills, hands, eyes, and cargo sailing possibilities. We can build connections between places that do not exist in any other way. And very often we are privilidged living the lifestyle we are living, and drives us to be more giving. We are expanding and updating our database on local collaborative ocean projects and positive change – driven destination representatives, tourguide, ocean companies. For our upcoming Expedition ON, but also for all ocean nomads sooner or later sailing the Atlantic circle.
This September we dedicate the full month knowledge sharing about travelling by sail as newby. We have lots of members who started from zero and are now a sailing hero, and lots of members who are looking to get started. We can learn a lot from each other. Join the conversation, absorb the information, ask your questions, share your ideas, stories, curiosities and experiences in relation to getting started on travelling by sail
Adventure, Impact and community focused sailing possibilities to get the ocean in your veins and jump on board to experience travelling by sail boat. A snapshot of crewing opportunities later Summer and autumn 2022.
A brief resume of my sailing life so far… And exciting ocean adventures ahead! 7 years ago I sailed the first time across the Atlantic as crew. I figured if I can cross an ocean, I may pursue the sailing lifestyle. I had no idea about anything sailing. I learned how (and how not) to ‘hitchhike’ on …
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