Students at Brockwood Park School in Hampshire, UK, Finn Cameron-Turner and Tereza Deminova, both 17, built a 16’ Matinicus double-ender. They had some help from a mentor and other students during the construction at the international school located in England’s Hampshire countryside, but it will be up to the two of them to row and sail the boat over 1,500 miles from Mainz, Germany, to Sochi, Russia, Tereza’s home town.
They’ll cross Europe on inland waterways, the last of which, the Danube, will deliver them to the Black Sea for the final leg along an exposed coast. For Finn and Tereza, the voyage is more than a summer vacation. They’ll continue their education by learning about navigation, sailing, and different languages and cultures. The state of the global environment is of great concern to them and they hope to demonstrate that travel, even for Tereza to get from school to her home in Sochi, can be done with a minimum of ecological impact. We’ll follow along on the adventure with regular installments of videos from Finn and Tereza. Watch this video to get to know the two adventurers.
Have been following your journey. Wishing you all the very best. Today is the 11th of September 2019 and I am wondering where you are.
Keep up your spirits.
Beautiful job on the boat. Have fun!
I love it. Keep it up.
What a trip. I had a German Language teacher in high school that went down the Danube to the Black Sea in the late ’30s. He came home just in time to get drafted into the German Army. He had find memories of the adventure. Fair winds, good voyage!
The finish on your boat is very impressive!
Enjoy your journey and take care.
Reading The Broken Road, a travel book written by Patrick Leigh Fermor about his hike in 1933 and 1934 across Europe from Holland to Germany, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece. A worthwhile read. The first two volumes are A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water.
Beautiful boat, cool young adventurers, awesome voyage of exploration!
Thanks for sharing, I’m along for the experience, virtually and jealously. Have some very great type-one and probably some type-two fun!
Cheers,
Bob
From the article:
“They hope to demonstrate that travel, even for Tereza to get from school to her home in Sochi, can be done with a minimum of ecological impact.”
Yes, we should all row great distances to save fuel.