Tres Hombres

I spent a winter as mate on this lovely engineless brigantine 2012-13
After a delivery of a schooner from Cornwall to Gomera I joined the Tres Hombres in La Palma where there was a nasty surge in the harbour as in the first clips. Sailed to Cape Verdes Mindelo, Sal and IIha Brava. On the crossing, roughly half way we came to the assistance of a large steel yacht in distress with a broken rudder which you might see in the background of some clips. We tacked close and Hove too nearby and swam a line over. We towed him hundreds of miles (only snapping the line and tacking back for him once!) under sail alone averaging 8kts with all the stunsls set to st Lucia . Still making the crossing in I think 16days.
There was then a bit of island hoping to collect various goods to take back to Europe - Barbados, Antigua, Grenada and then Dominican Republic where the ship was loaded with something like 22 tons of of rum in barrels, molasses and coco beans. The return journey started with 14days of beating upwind to Bermuda and then an exciting fast crossing with the depressions to the Azores. From there a brief anchor off Charlestown Cornwall and Brixham and finishing up in Den Helder.
Tres Hombres was originally built in Germany during the war as a coastal patrol vessel, they were composite steel framed and wood planked, designed with a very efficient hull shapes to not require large engines. In recent times the ship was rebuilt as an engineless brigantine for cargo. Shes like a mini clipper ship and sails very well.
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Painting at the start by Eric Henry

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A very impressive little ship. Watching her videos, she is clearly very fast, which is substantiated by the above! She is also completely traditional with no modern devises in evidence to disrupt the impression.
Wonderful to see that such a beautiful little ship can be so practical.