Crew wanted
We are looking for you to join our volunteer crews in 2025!
Are you a sailor, technically adept or media-savvy and communicative? Do you have experience as a dinghy driver, medic, from search & rescue deployments or in the field of awareness? Then we are looking for you for one of our deployments next year!
As one of six crew members, you will be part of our three- or four-week deployments to support sea rescue in the Mediterranean Sea. With our sailing ship Trotamar III, we are looking for distress cases at sea, support people on migrant vessels and – in an emergency – rescue people ourselves and take them on board our ship.
Register via the crewing form on our website. There you will also find the exact dates of our deployments.

Update from the Shipyard
A quick update from our shipyard: We are renovating the engine room! To install our new engine, we are re-insulating the engine room and making it fireproof and soundproof. Our…
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13,000 euros! That’s how much money we currently need to renovate the engine room. “Do you even have an engine on your sailboat?” We often hear this question. Yes, we…
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The Trotamar III is back in Licata!After a short but eventful passage to the Search and Rescue area, our crew has returned to Sicily. Last week, we were able to…
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No sooner has our crew arrived in the search and rescue zones than everything happens very quickly: from the deck of the Trotamar III, we spot a boat on the…
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We are sailing to the Search and Rescue Zones!After a long wait for a weather window and lots of training, our crew was able to leave Licata and is now…
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Training, training, training: In Licata, our crew is busy preparing for the upcoming deployment. This includes dinghy training in the harbour basin of our home port Licata, but also offshore…
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Our new crew has arrived in Licata. Andi, Leara, Stephi, Thorsten, and Toni will join skipper Matthias on our last deployment in 2025.The preparations are the same as for our…
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After waiting for a day and a half and dozens of emails and phone calls later, the good news finally arrvied yesterday: we were allowed to take the 53 people…
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At 6 am this morning, the crew of the Trotamar III received an unusual call via radio: the managers of the Miskar oil platform informed us that 53 people on…
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On Saturday evening, we came across a boat in distress in the dark and took 16 people on board, including many minors. On board the Trotamar III, everyone was provided…
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