Press release -
VEGA featured in Sea Yachting September-October 2010 Issue
"For most of us vacation is a time for multi-starred resorts, exotic beaches, dancing the night away and being pampered as we lounge about rubbing in the suntan lotion and downing well-iced drinks. But for some like Singaporean web and multi-media designer Joanne Har this year’s vacation was a time for adventures at sea and unselfish service to humanity."
For three months and almost 3,500 nautical miles Joanne Har joined the Historical Vessel VEGA as
part of the crew on one of VEGA’s humanitarian missions. This is her report.
This issue of Sea Yachting is attached, have a read!
Other newspapers and magazines we have been featured in:
- The Business Times, April 15, 2010
- The Straits Times, April 17, 2010
- Gaia Discovery, April 28, 2010
- Classic-boat Magazin, August, 2006
- Sea Yachting, March - April, 2010
Topics
- Aid
Categories
- sea yachting
- joanne har
- volunteer humanitarian assistance
- volunteer sailing crew
- volunteer humanitarian assistance to most isolated islands in south east asia
- vega
- solomon islands
- sail vega
- humanitarian vessel
- humanitarian efforts in south east asia’s poorest island communities
- humanitarian assistance
- historical ships
- h/v vega
- east timor
- donated medical and educational supplies
- banda islands indonesia
- historic vessel vega
- alternative vacations
- humanitarian vessel vega
Built in 1893-94, for over 100 years VEGA carried cargos of bricks, building stone, pig iron, and cement through some of the world’s roughest seas. Built for the North Sea and certified for Arctic trade, VEGA was famous for her strength and ability to carry loads other boats her size could not. Baltic traders like VEGA made some very impressive voyages including immigrants to North America and cargos to the Mediterranean, Africa and the Caribbean, some rounding Cape Horn to trade with Chile.
