Timbercoast - Cargo Under Sail 

This is amazing! One drop on a hot stoned does not make a difference much, but rain starts with that drop ;)

God bless you and keep you, you fine sailors. You're living the life that I wish I had.

What, only one comment? Can't believe it! Just watched NDR 'Nordstory' and I'm very glad and happy for you to finally see her sail after all those efforts. Congrats and lots of Cargo, fair winds and following seas!

Can't wait until all cargo is emission free

I got a dream that one day i will be sailing along

No details about how much profit such a venture could make, no info about available markets. You need to provide a narrative. Who is hauling what, from where to where and are they making money? It's an intriguing idea but is it workable?

amazing

Some commentators say more or less: ​ "Giving up their land where they would grow food for their families"? And criticize the production of tropical stuff for people in so-called "rich countries", obviously because the poor people suffer from hunger now, because the Northeners want their drugs "coffee" and "cocoa". Have you ever been there, where they do the coffee and cocoa? Our farmers produce their food (beans, corn, vegetables, fruit, plátanos) AND coffee, cocoa, cinnamon, coco nuts, black pepper, chili, vanilla, cúrcuma, maniok, pejibaye, malanga, quequisque, papaya, some timber, borojó, arazá and more. On one hand they too drink coffee and use nearly all of this stuff themselves, but you won´t believe it: Poor people in so-called poor countries do not just EAT, they need MONEY to buy clothing, to pay the school fees for their kids, to pay the doctor and the medicine, to pay transportation to town, to keep the mules and the horses and the boats, to pay all that stuff you need in a HOUSE and kitchen, to even pay their church and pastor, to buy newspaper (actually non-existent in Nicaragua), to celebrate a wedding and more. It´s MONEY, what they need for all this. Where does this come from? From commerce, from selling parts of the production at the weekly farmers market, to super markets and restaurants in the cities and to people in other countries, who want to buy their produce and pay good prices (organic & fair) voluntarily because of their own health, the farming families´health, the environment of the "poor country". Moreover progressive organic farmers add value, do a lot of processing, fermenting, drying and so non, to get a bigger part out of trading. Look up the page of El Ceibo, Sapecho, Bolivia, to see such an example. Also in "the North" farmers give up their land, where they would grow food for their families, only to feed the useless people in the cities? I cannot touch all the background(s) connected to the activity in a capitalist world, but if one really wants to be better informed, one will find thousands of texts in the internet. Thanks for the attention, G. - Sano y Salvo - Safe and Sound, Primera Asociación Campesina e Indígena de Cultura y Producción Ecológicas en la Biosfera del Sureste de Nicaragua

how much cargo it can carry? looks awesome!

Commendable goal, but I think you need to start with designing a ship to be easy to load and unload. You're probably using more labor-hours just to fill the hold than is used to load a dozen shipping containers onto a fossil-fuel powered cargo ship. If the point of the ship is to haul cargo, it must be designed appropriately in order to stand a chance of competing with fossil fuel cargo ships.

Any franchise opportunities for a truck driver and his family who wanna spend time together on the water and traveling? we just have not found our way of making a boat pay for itself.... yet

Well, that cargo will keep Starbucks going tor 10 minutes better sail back & get some more.

Não tem como alimentar cidades com 100.000 habitantes apenas com navios a vela. É sonho de ecologista.

Why dont you just call it what it is ? You want a huge sailboat for fun but someone else to pay for it. How much coffee can you carry on a 2 mast schooner? 30 tonnes ? 60 tonnes ? Tell me the price that you pay per tonne to captive peasants to supply green beans and what you sell it for in western markets.If there was money in this dont you think everyone would be doing it? Name one other commodity that you can save the world with on your 50 ton schooner.This is a scam.