New business plans (in English, French, and Danish) Due to the extension of the rebuild of Hawila, we have worked out new business plans. They are available in English, French and Danish and include an update on our budget, timeline, the scale of the rebuild and additional information that was not [...]
Progress on the Hawila shipyard We have purchased two additional containers and have started to bring our tools and machinery to this new harbour space, which was provided by the municipality of Holbæk earlier this year. One of the containers is insulated and will become our metal workshop, one container will be [...]
We have installed all of Hawila's beam shelves, bilge stringers and stanchions One of the biggest news from the rebuild: we have reached a milestone! With the bilge stringers and beam shelves now installed, as well as all the stanchions and upper frames, we have finished a huge part of the structural [...]
How to make international touring sustainable This video is the result of the project and circus tour "Ripples" created in collaboration with Acting for Climate & Festival Norpas. “With the wind in our sails, the sound of the sea around us on a wooden ship without an engine, we [...]
Protecting Holbæk Harbour We were again part of the annual Klimasejlads / Climate Sailing Day in Holbæk this year. The event is a great collaboration with local associations & organisations and political representatives from Holbæk municipality. We were happy to participate together with our close partners from the National Museum and Kystliv [...]
How to turn climate anxiety into climate action “Recognise that your grief is rooted in something you love” This video is the result of the summer tour "Ripples - the sailing circus show" aboard "Swallow" created in collaboration with Acting for Climate & Festival Norpas. The performance, which took [...]
Into calm waters With the work on the frames above the waterline now completed, the team has been working on the internal vessel structure to ensure structural integrity before the craning operation. The remaining bilge stringers and beam shelves were installed in the last weeks of January and the beginning of February. [...]
Reality check The new year came with great energy after we obtained the land for building our future shipyard and craning out the ship, and with this came many ideas, meetings and conversations. At the end of January, the Hawila core team organised a whole planning weekend at our friends in the [...]
The final reports of our summer collaborations Part of the cooperation with Acting for Climate and Festival Norpas were the last two joint meetings where we compiled the results of the big summer tour with "Ripples - the sailing circus show". One meeting took place in Finland, the other in Norway, both times we experienced stormy [...]
A place with many possibilities Those who have been following us for a while know that we have been trying to get Hawila permanently ashore since last summer. This is to make our work on the ship more flexible and independent, but also to give us space for workshops, events and other [...]
