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 [...]
3km of rigging cables were donated to Hawila by Sailmaster BV! This week we have received about 3km of rigging steel cables of various sizes, which were donated to us by Richard Tefsen, proprietor at Sailmaster BV, from Harlingen (the Netherlands). Sailmaster BV mainly works on large new-built projects and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Hawila on Danish national TV
