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■ PORT OF TASTE
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Non-seafarers can support the pro-
ject by buying produce in Timber-
coast‘s online shop. One special
highlight is certainly the ‘Captains
Korn’ schnapps – the only one world-
wide to have matured at sea. The
traditional schnapps distillery, Jo-
seph Rosche distilled the schnaps
following its Haselünne family tradition. Poured into a Bordeaux red-wine barrel, filled with ‘Avontuur’ rum on the previous voyage, it matured on the cargo sail- ing-ship,crossingtheNorthAtlantictwiceonthe‘Avon- tuur’, covering some 13,000 sea miles in all.
This year the ‘Avontuur’ is celebrating its 100th anniver- sary. To celebrate, the ‘Avontuur’ embarked on her fifth overseas voyage in January, sailing from Elsfleth on the
River Weser, first to the Antilles, then via Honduras to Mexico, before returning to her North European home port. A major part of her cargo should be discharged in July in the Port of Hamburg. Loading & dis- charging have to be done by hand with real teamwork. As in yester-
year, the produce arrives in sacks and crates.
The ‘Avontuur’s’ sixth voyage is already planned. It is possible to participate on the clipper’s voyages. “But don’t imagine you’re going on a pleasure cruise,” stresses Bockermann. “In the first place crew mem- bers have to be convinced of ‘Avontuur’s’ mission. Then, once on board you have to get stuck in – scrub- bing decks, running sails and/or handling cargo.” ■
IT’S ‘ALL HANDS ON DECK’ WHEN IT COMES TO LOADING & DISCHARGING THE HISTORIC SAILING VESSEL
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