After arrival in Gothenburg, we offer all deckhands on The Jubilee Run the opportunity to stay on board for an extra ten days as volunteers. This volunteer event is primarily offered to deckhands on board The Jubilee Run. Subject to availability, it is also possible to apply if you are not on this sailing leg. For more information, scroll down.
Also stay tuned for more information about volunteering during summer and autumn 2023. If you don't get the answers to your questions here, don't hesitate to send an email to: volunteer@soic.se
This event/volunteer week is now fully booked. You can still apply to be put on a waiting list.
We offer all deckhands on The Jubilee Run, the last sailing leg in 2023, the opportunity to stay on board for an extra ten days as volunteers, to experience the rigging down of the ship after the expedition. At the beginning of these ten days, volunteers on board will also help out with open ship and the move of the ship from the festival area to the pier in Eriksberg.
If you are interested in staying on, please apply for both the sailing leg and “Downrigging Days in Gothenburg” straight away. During the ten days, all deckhands will stay, sleep and eat on board.
This volunteer event is primarily offered to deckhands on board The Jubilee Run. Subject to availability, it is also possible to apply for the downrigging days if you are not on this sailing leg.
Dates: 4–14 June in Gothenburg
Days on board: 10
This event/volunteer week is now fully booked.
Photo: Linda Åkerberg. From sailing leg 1, 2022, Göteborg–Helsingborg.
As a volunteer, you get the chance to pick up knowledge about traditional materials and learn craftsmanship on board. What is required to keep an 18th-century ship in good shape? What materials were used at that time, and what is used today? How is a lashing made? The tasks varied and can revolve around anything from taring ropes, scraping the hull, to working in the rigging. But also help in the galley (kitchen) and so on.
Volunteers are essential for the maintenance of the ship and keeping her in shape. Being a volunteer on board is an excellent way to get to know the ship and learn from others. The practical work gives you hands-on experience in a delightful kinship together with our permanent crew and other volunteers.
As a volunteer on board the Götheborg you work with maintenance while we are in port in Barcelona. Unlike sailing along as a deckhand, you don’t pay to volunteer. The work as a volunteer is unpaid, but you get full board and, not to forget, a great and friendly group of people to hang out with.
Photo: Linda Åkerberg/Wilderness Stories
Volunteering may involve working at heights. It is an opportunity to experience what it is like climbing and helping with the rigging, which is 40 meters high.
Climbing the rig and working at heights is also a big part of the work done on board while sailing. It is common to initially feel a certain unease when working at such heights, but most people get used to it quickly.
(This applies to the event "Downrigging days", but not normal volunteer weeks later in summer or autumn.)
Photo: Linda Åkerberg/Wilderness Stories
Photo: Linda Åkerberg/Wilderness Stories
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Tomorrow, 2 June at 15:00, we will arrive in Gothenburg to officially open the 400-year jubilee with gun salute. Come and welcome us home!! We would of course love to have some company on the water coming into Gothenburg, and welcome boats to join us! Already today, the 1st of June, you will be able to see us in the Gothenburg archipelago.
Meet the owner and a big heart behind Götheborg of Sweden, the world’s largest ocean-going wooden sailing ship. It was a purchase decision that came from the heart, rather than from rational business thinking, says Stefan Björk, founder and owner of Greencarrier Group and Götheborg of Sweden.
Hamburg was specifically chosen as a key stopover for Götheborg as Greencarrier (our owner) opened new offices in Hamburg in April. On Monday, we were very pleased to welcome especially invited customers, partners and friends of Greencarrier Group on board.