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Tall Ship Tres Hombres.... The worlds only engineless sailing cargo vessel...The 32m overall (28m ondeck) two masted square rigged Tres Hombres began as a Minespeaker, a cutter built in 1943...Her composite hull construction was one of the first tobe tank tested...She was rediscoverd in a canal of the histoiric city of Delft in the Netherlands in 2007 by three Dutch fiends...Ajen, Jorne and Andreas...Theyve restored this amazing vessel in order to fulfill their dream to reinstate sailing boats as the answer to increasing CO2 emissions caused by transport of goods....These three friends while sailing on the Dutch barque Europa saw the beauty and power of great sailing ships that use only the wind as means for propulsion...They decided to create the worlds first modern Emission Free shipping company now named Fairtransport....
Posted on: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 11:26:13 +0000

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