Thor Heyerdahl (ship)
The Thor Heyerdahl - formerly Tinka, Marga Henning, Silke and Minnow - is a 1930 built vessel now sails under the German flag as a three-masted topsail schooner (three- masted sailing ship). The ship was named after the Norwegian explorer and adventurer Thor Heyerdahl ( 1914-2002 ).
Today, the Thor Heyerdahl goes in the sense of experiential learning, especially with teams of young fellow sailors in the Baltic Sea.
Ship history
The Thor Heyerdahl was built in 1930 under the name of " Tinka " at the shipyard Smit & Zoon in Westerbroek (Netherlands) as a motor ship with auxiliary sails. First port of registry was Hamburg.
Over the next 50 years, the ship was used under various names as a cargo ship to South Africa and in the Caribbean. During this period the carrying capacity of the ship in 1951 expanded to 300 tons by the hull was lengthened amidships by a few meters.
In 1979, the run-down coaster of two sailing enthusiasts was purchased and rebuilt from 1979 to 1983 for three-masted topsail schooner. One of the new owner of the ship, Detlef Soitzek was mitgefahren 1977-1978 in the Indian Ocean as a navigator on the reed boat expedition " Tigris " of the Norwegian anthropologists, zoologists, geologists, anthropologists, botanists and world traveler Thor Heyerdahl. He suggested to christen the ship in the name of the Norwegian. The patron took the honor counter like, especially since he, like many others, the restoration and re-use an old sailing ship very advocated.
Since 1983, the e Thor Heyerdahl Thor Heyerdahl by the Association V. is operated, which today counts over 1000 members. In the summer the ship on the North Sea and Baltic Sea is used in winter, it is running on the waters of the Canary Islands and the Caribbean.
More than 20,000 mainly young sailors have been riding on voyages of Thor Heyerdahl. The tours are conducted in terms of experiential learning ( holistic educational concept ).
The Thor Heyerdahl is registered ship the Sail Training Association Germany that promotes sail training included classical seamanship for young people, and has repeatedly participated Sailing events of the Sail Training Association. The ship sailed at Sail Amsterdam 1985, and at the Sail 1986 in Bremerhaven, Hamburg and Bremerhaven in 1989, 1990, 1995 and 2000.
In July 2007, the Thor Heyerdahl was disqualified from driving through the See-BG due to outmoded safety devices. On 9 August, the sea trade association and the association Thor Heyerdahl could eV before the Administrative Court of Hamburg in some comparing it to lift the ban on departure subject to conditions. The planned until October 20, 2007 Summer trips could be done in a limited sailing area in the Baltic Sea.
From October 2007 to June 2009, the ship at HDW in Kiel was a radical overhaul. The Thor Heyerdahl was rebuilt with the prescribed today systems, standards and safety devices. Since then the ship for various Mitsegelangebote used.
KUS - classroom under sail
Since 2008 is " KUS - classroom under sail " from October to April, with around 30 students in the 10th grade as a school project of the Friedrich -Alexander- University Erlangen- Nuremberg. The Bavarian State Ministry of Education and Culture, the project equivalent to a school abroad.
KUS starts in Kiel and performs on the Canary Islands in the Caribbean. There several weeks country stays take place. The trip home via the Bahamas, Bermuda and the Azores back to Kiel.
High Seas High School
( Such as " Open Sea School " German English pun) carried out, which was originally launched at the Fridtjof Nansen to life from 2002 to 2006 was at the Thor Heyerdahl in cooperation with the Herrmann- Lietz - Schule Spiekeroog the "High Seas High School ". Up to 30 Grade 11 secondary school grade ( age 15-18 years) from boarding schools and public schools sailed from Germany on the Canary Islands to the Caribbean, the South or Central American mainland and to Cuba and eventually via the Azores back to the home port of Kiel. In the nearly seven -month trips the students were integrated on the one hand as sailors in the board everyday and sailing maneuvers and received the other hand, on board regular classes (eg German, English, Spanish, mathematics, physics, etc. ). Shore Excursions from the ports of call and short courses on land supplemented the experience; during this time the ship was used for two-week trips with adult fellow sailors. The journey 2000/2001 was accompanied by a professional film crew ( Director: Torsten Truscheit ). From the pictures the documentary series Young Hearts, which was broadcast on ZDF 2002 was developed. Since 2007, the "High Seas High School " will be organized on the sailing ship Johann Smidt.