To build a wooden Tall Ship is not possible without cutting trees. Anthony explains how SAILCARGO still works against deforestation to save local resources.

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Melle met a lot of people he learned from in ways of consciousness and life experience in his three months in Costa Rica. Our international team shares its experiences with one another and we all benefit from that cultural exchange.

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The shipyard AstilleroVerde is built by our handcraft and the material we most care for: wood. Co-Founder Lynx Guimond explains how we manage to set up our infrastructure from sustainably harvested resources.

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Traditional vessel’s sailor Adriaan came to the Jungle Shipyard without having an idea of what’s expecting him. He left after a nice time with a fear of missing out onall the great things that are going to happen.

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Lucie crossed the Atlantic on a tall ship and decided to join SAILCARGO afterwards. On the ship, she reached kids to have a different, more reflected sight of the world through sailing and sees the same aim in the project of sailing cargo: to awake environmental consciousness.

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Business partner Luis tells the story of how he got convinced by the idea of sailing cargo and how he helped to enhance the business.

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Our shipyard is special and different than what Federico was used to. He was amazed by the high functional community and by the apprenticeship of traditional skills the company is offering.

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From building a crew house to leveling the ground or giant ironwood logs to prepare them for milling, Iris joined us with a wide range of jobs and skills. She talks about her daily activities at AstilleroVerde in 2018.

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In December 2017 our team moved down to the shipyard land. We only had one little house on the site, which the early team of volunteers used as a sleeping place, while constructing the first workshops.

Blog: Welcome to Our Shipyard
Video: Our Shipyard Build Site

Gero describes to build of our tree house office, which we used as our office space. He describes the whole building process, from the first tree that has been cut, till the finished tree house.

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We asked ourselves: what's the fastest, cheapest, most beautiful way to build our shipyard office?

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In July 2017 our team spent multiple days in Punta Morales building our first office, which is part of the essential infrastructure needed to start working at our shipyard. At that point our headquarters were still 1.5 hours up the mountain, in the Monteverde cloud forest.

Blogs: Shipyard Office: Aerial Construction / From a Tree to a Treehouse

Sourcing our hurricane-fallen keel of Tamarindo de Monte in the north of Costa Rica.

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Drone: Shipyard bird’s eye view.

Structures to be built, including ship hangar.

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And so a dream gave way to possibility. This day marked the first major milestone in Ceiba’s story, a moment that breathed life into the project, a sign of hope for the future of our oceans.

“Help us begin construction on a cargo tallship in Costa Rica & achieve carbon-negative freight shipping!” This is how it all started. We succeeded our Kickstarter Campaign and raised CA$ 30,821 in one month.

The registration of CEIBA S.A. represented an important first step in the journey toward emission free cargo shipping. We now had a company and a vast amount of work ahead, and we were excited to embarque upon the path of this promising project.