Trade by Sail
A five-day, hands-on immersion into the emerging world of regenerative maritime livelihoods, trading by sail, and bioregional sea-based economies.
Our waterways have long been the world’s ancient commons of exchange, culture, and sustenance for humans and the more-than-human. This course will reconnect you with the skills, knowledge, and imagination needed to explore trade by sail in the 21st century.
How do we transform our bioregional economies, especially those with access to the sea? More regenerative enterprises and livelihoods might be a good place to start. And not just on the land and with the soil, but also wind, current and tides. Regenerative maritime livelihoods are possible, too, so let’s start them up.
This hands-on short course, in collaboration with Sail Trade South West and the crew of the Ibis, offers a shift in perspective - and invites you to explore what it means to think, feel, and work with the sea.
Over five days we will learn with head, heart, and hands: through dialogue, storytelling, and experiential practice. We’ll get hands-on with some of the practical realities of trade, scampering on board the Ibis, hauling cargo to market, working with charts and knots. We’ll learn the history of maritime trade in this region, and elsewhere. We'll question our land-biased assumptions about trade, transport, and commerce, exploring how waterways have always been highways for exchange - and how they might be again. We’ll dive into the economics and business model implications, too.
A five-day, hands-on immersion into the emerging world of regenerative maritime livelihoods, trading by sail, and bioregional sea-based economies.
Our waterways have long been the world’s ancient commons of exchange, culture, and sustenance for humans and the more-than-human. This course will reconnect you with the skills, knowledge, and imagination needed to explore trade by sail in the 21st century.
How do we transform our bioregional economies, especially those with access to the sea? More regenerative enterprises and livelihoods might be a good place to start. And not just on the land and with the soil, but also wind, current and tides. Regenerative maritime livelihoods are possible, too, so let’s start them up.
This hands-on short course, in collaboration with Sail Trade South West and the crew of the Ibis, offers a shift in perspective - and invites you to explore what it means to think, feel, and work with the sea.
Over five days we will learn with head, heart, and hands: through dialogue, storytelling, and experiential practice. We’ll get hands-on with some of the practical realities of trade, scampering on board the Ibis, hauling cargo to market, working with charts and knots. We’ll learn the history of maritime trade in this region, and elsewhere. We'll question our land-biased assumptions about trade, transport, and commerce, exploring how waterways have always been highways for exchange - and how they might be again. We’ll dive into the economics and business model implications, too.