(B)LOGBOOK

It seems paradoxical to speak of a local economy in reference to goods that come from overseas, but in the absence of harmful emissions, which are avoided by sailing ships, the concept of "zero kilometers" can be revisited in terms of "zero nautical mile." Exclusively local consumption automatically…

Around 2010, I unexpectedly learned about a boat builder near my hometown on the Austrian border. On my very first visit, I asked the question, which then became almost a running gag. Seeing only boats under restoration in the workshop, I asked: do you also make new boats? After a year and a half of…

While respect for the environment and thus the desire to reduce, if not eliminate, air pollution has been at the heart of the sail cargo movement, another core value has been discussed from the very beginning: "fairness," or the commitment to fair dealing with others, to not playing dirty, and to no…

The rebirth of sail cargo in the collective imagination, albeit a niche one, can be traced back to an Atlantic crossing aboard a traditional tall ship, the Bark Europa, by three young men, two Dutch and one Austrian, in the early 2000s. Sailing for days with favorable winds alongside a container shi…

Right from the start of our venture, we created an exhibition banner with a simple, yet innocent, question: why sail cargo today? All those who are fascinated by sailing linked to a necessity, the transportation of something necessary, or at least useful, perhaps doesn't ask themselves this question…

The Brigantes company aims to offer the aware consumer high-quality coffee transported with zero emissions from Central America to Italy, using the BRIGANTES sailing ship. The vessel is currently being converted to a sailing ship and will be the fourth largest in Italy after the imposing Vespucci, t…

Our story doesn't begin today, but in the fall of 2015, when I came across the hull of a historic steel sailing ship about to be scrapped in the port of Trapani, which we would rename BRIGANTES. A few months earlier, I had had the opportunity to admire her sister ship up close at a sailing regatta i…