Watch the intro to our new YouTube series Our new format will show you more about the current refit in Holbæk, the amazing people involved and everything about our community life. We hope you subscribe to our YouTube channel and watch Hawila's story unfold even more! Music by Nat [...]
Fair Transport came to visit Hawila in Holbaek Last week, Joop and Sabine, the directors of Fairtransport, came to Denmark to visit us and S/V Hawila, which is currently being refitted as a sailing cargo vessel. Fair Transport are the pioneers of the sailing cargo community with their iconic engineless [...]
We officially launched Hawila - Cargo by sail ! This year we decided to make a bigger step to show that maritime transport can and should be clean and ethical. We founded our sustainable cargo shipping company Hawila - Cargo by sail. The current refit was started to convert Hawila [...]
The carlings on Hawila Carlings: pieces of timber laid fore and aft under the deck of a ship.
Hawila is up on the old slipway until the end of March Today our crew and the volunteers of the Holbæk Gamle Havns Beddinger joined forces to bring Hawila back up on the slipway. On land, we will be able to work on the bottom frames. Stay updated on this [...]
Forward beamshelves on Hawila Two pieces of solid oak, each of them measuring no less than 12m long. After the 6 hours of steaming necessary to make the timber pliable, the heat and moisture softened the wood fibres enough so that the beamshelves could be bent and stretched to hold [...]
We are looking for shipwrights! Hawila is an 86-year-old, wooden built galeas of 35 m length, in renovation in Holbaek, Denmark, since September 2020. From December to March the ship will be on the local slipway where we will change bottom frames from forward to mid-ship. Afterward we will continue [...]
Framing the forward half of Hawila In the beginning of November, Ben and Bleuenn, our shipwright friends with their amazing ship Swallow, came into Holbaek Harbour from Brittany. Beating to wind, they manoeuvred the ship under sail and moored alongside Hawila. They used only their huge sculling oars at the [...]
Hawila on Danish national TV
LIDAR scan of Hawila's hull Vivien – our volunteer naval architect – is working relentlessly on the actual and future drawings of Hawila. He bases most of his work on LIDAR 3D scans kindly made by our friend "StigAnton AN" from Kitsensors.dk at the early stage of the refit and showing [...]
