Yami is a young woman for our village Punta Morales who joined our kitchen and maintenance team in mid 2019. In her blog she talks about the exciting opportunity that our shipyard has given her.

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The keelson has been put up and bolted into place. The massive bolts hold the keelson, frames, and the keel together. Fastening the keelson included drilling and bolting thirty holes, one for every full frame.

The vertical elements at the stern of the ship, extending from keel to deck, will be installed shortly. With our strong team, we are able to hoist all of the pieces by hand, as we did with the stem. Keep an eye on our social media channels (Instagram is best!) to see live-content while the assembly is taking place.

Video: Raising the Stern Post
Gallery: The Stern Post

To say that taking over #seashippingchange for a Central American woman is an empowering thing, is an understatement. We will dive into Marilyn's perspective of what is materializing in the shipyard office regarding Trade and Logistics to sail cargo.

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To properly build our ship, the order in which things are done is critical. This journal entry is aimed at giving you a deeper insight into what is happening in the weeks to come; complete with technical information, terms and diagrams.

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Two years ago Davys and his wife decided to leave the busy capital of Costa Rica to move to this little village, Punta Morales. Here Davys did not only find tranquility and a beautiful place to raise their son, but also employment at the shipyard and a new found passion for sustainability and wooden shipbuilding.

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Shani gives us an insight into the thoughts behind moving towards provisioning regeneratively. The ideas that support self-sufficiency and true sustainability, from growing more food onsite to sourcing package-free grains, are gradually evolving in the visual introduction to this project.

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The stem received its crown on March 25th. The cutwater, the forwardmost point of the ship, finally rested in its rightful place. The gammon knee is made out of pure Guapinol hardwood and weighs about 320 kg (700lbs+). 

Video: Hoisting the Gammon Knee

For the third time Iris came to Costa Rica to join us at our shipyard. In the past eight months while she was gone we hired many more Costa Ricans from our community in Punta Morales. In this post Iris describes how it is to work with people from so many different backgrounds.

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British/Mexican shipwright Pablo Cruz Gilmour dives into his experiences building Ceiba’s frames, working with a variety of local hardwoods and how they are sourced. Technical and informal, this post is full of all the hands-on information woodworkers are so eager to know.

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Accomplished captain and shipwright Zeal from Washington describes his experience of working on the framing stage in this blog post, “Framing at a Glance”. Combining technical detail with elegant prose, this post is well worth reading.

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Just one year ago we laid Ceiba’s keel. It feels like yesterday, but the impressive size this ship has grown, and clearly shows the time that has passed since this day. We celebrated this day with a talent show inside of Ceiba and with a special video release.

Video: 2019 Year In Review

A semi-formal update about the recent progress at the yard, in which several processes are examined: Alaskan chainsaw mill, assembling frames, lofting half and cant frames, and drilling some of the longest holes of the ship.

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While we're far from being halfway through the whole Ceiba build, we have reached a symbolic halfway mark for the framing process. From now on the bevel of the next frames turn to the aft.

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Video: Assembling Ceiba's Frames

Our projects founders, Lynx and Danielle, went on a special sourcing mission which took them all the way to Haida Gwaii, near Alaska. The reason that they traveled to this northern island was to meet with the people who will source the masts of Ceiba, and to see the forests and trees first-hand.

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Almost 7m long and weighing over 2 tonnes, the Guapinol stem piece was felled by a landslide 20 km from the shipyard. Adding shape and character to the ship, the stem now stands tall in its rightful place, overlooking the Gulf of Nicoya for the time being.

Video: Raising Ceiba’s Stem

Misael was introduced to the AstilleroVerde for the first time during our shipyard summit in early May. Since then he has been working with us and got to know the community and the dream that we all share.

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The project around building Ceiba is followed by many people around the world. Before she came to Punta Morales to be a part of SAILCARGO, Emma watched the awakening of Ceiba from Europe.

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Alizée writes about the beautiful vision of Ceiba, the big smile of Mariangel in the muddy waters of the white beach and the sunset views from the shipyard.

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Until today our shipwright Fred spent 222 days at the SAILCARGO shipyard. A lot has happened in those days and Fred is sharing some of the experiences that he made here in Costa Rica and how much progress the team achieved in the past month.

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