Schooner Barbarossa...
Ahoy, and thanks for your interest.
Wonderful News:
Schooner Barbarossa has been offered a reprieve, and efforts are again
underway.
One day you may well look out over
the horizon and see a magnificent sailing ship cutting through the
waters. She'll be this one, which has sparked our imagination in ways
that the new plastics simply cannot....
UPDATE 2 January
2006: The Barbarossa is no more.
A website visitor said she was cut up and removed long ago.
Please be sure to check the
Update Page for further details.
The following has been cobbled together from various
reports by individuals with knowledge of her history
and previous journeys, owners, and the like. Above, is
a photograph taken of Schooner Barbarossa at anchor.
Should you be able to supply us with any first-hand
accounts, we'd love to include them here. Contact me
via
email with your
reminiscences please.
Current Update
US Documentation Certificate in hand~
Schooner MONTOWESE was her original US Documented
name under her Master, Michael Cowell. She became
Schooner BARBAROSSA in 1994, at time of survey and
transfer of ownership.
18 gross ton, 14 net,
42.4 LWL, 54 LOD, 64 LOA, 5'5" draft, 13 beam, keel
laid 1959... Belawan-Deli, Sumatra, Indonesia.
1 1/2" IROKO carvel planked, 3" IROKO sawn frames
15" on centers, laid and caulked fir decking, 9"
high bulwarks w/2"x7" caps, stern taffrail, bowsprit
with footropes and bobstays.
1 1/2" bronze shaft, 21 1/2" 3blade prop, 120 SS
fuel & 250 SS water tankage, inboard rudder quadrant
wheel steering through Edson unit. Westerbeake 4-236
diesel 75hp, wet pipe exhaust, Pargaon 2:1 gear,
anchor windlass, 12 volt electrical ship and 110
volt shore power.
TopSail Schooner.
Originally built for Michael L. Cowell in 1959,
in Belawan-Deli and shipped to US, finally fitted
out in Massachusetts Shipyard.
Schooner BARBAROSSA ~
An interesting and classic schooner, her keel laid in the 60's
somewhere in Indonesia.... havin' sailed grandly many a year.... Her
ownership had recently changed, from that of a seasoned sailor and one
who had learned through the years those necessities of ownership and
care of wooden sailing vessel, to one who was of less experience. Her
previous owner struggles to gain contact with the newer owner in effort
to formulate a game plan for the BARBAROSSA.
attempting to gain more accurate and in-depth information about this
schooner of 64' and gaff rig
Her previous owner has agreed to a rendezvous~ to bring archival and
historical information of this vessel, and an album of photographs of
her grander sailing days. [NAME REMOVED, as per request 07 November 2003]
Greetings from Bira, South Sulawesi, Indonesia and home of the
SongLine Cruises and the Traditional Fleet of Indonesia. I have watched
this groups comments on ice locked liveaboards in DC and watched the
season arrival and its massive increases in the news groups activity.
Todays comments on BARBAROSSA at her present prosition in Key West has
called me to respond with hope of assistance. The PR value of such an
undertaking could be of great value to the Indonesian Marine Tourism
industry in which we are very much involved in helping find its rightfull place in the Yachting
and Cruising market around the world. I look forward to updates on the plite of KLM Barbarossa. The KLM tag
is the Indonesian classification for KAPAL (Boat), Layar (Sail) Motor
(yep engine) [Robin Engel of SongLine Cruises]
".... Hi. I have been reading the emails this morning and I really
appreciate what u are doing as i sailed on Barbarrosa for a time. This
of course years ago and i rebedded all her decks one summer, what a
trip, I loved it. I wish I had learned how to do all of that wood work
and caulking long before. I probably would be famous now. Thank you,
thank you, for your help. I always loved coming to the Barbarossa and
enjoying the smell of her wooden flavor all over my clothes. She sailed
so beautifully I had wonderful times on her in the Caribbean..."
[anonymous contributor]
Her previous owner, he who abandoned her and allowed her to founder,
has been located and is in the process of accomplishing a transfer of
ownership and fulfilling state and county requisites so that she may be
recovered by her new ownership. He has no further interest in this vessel.
[NAME REMOVED, as per request 07 November 2003]
I am of the belief that this Schooner BARBAROSSA project may be of
tremendous benefit to the Key West Community, the State of Florida, and
an asset to relations between the Indonesian Shipyards and those of the
United States, as well as being educationally sound and of historical
value to the general public and youth whom gain further knowledge
through this endeavour of man's ability to guard and maintain the
security of those things of the past which were created of ingenuity,
intelligence, tenacity, and perseverance. [NAME REMOVED, as per request
07 November 2003]
Her potential is tremendous. The NAME
REMOVED, as per request 07 November 2003 is a Man' OWar
of the Caribbean Fleet O'Infamy, who only a few years earlier was a
severely neglected beauty. Her keel (of Wm.Garden design) was laid in
the mid seventies in, interestingly enough, Formosa/Taiwan. And yet a
further point of interest: as history has it~ Originally settled by
people of Malay-Polynesian descent, and who initially inhabited coastal
plains~ Taiwan today was then known as ~ Pakan ~ Yet another Fleet
O'Infamy Man O'War: ~RUBY~ of similar design and proportions as well as
somewhat similar history, currently plying the waters off Trinidad way~
It would oft seem that man's dreams of one day sailing the Pacific oft
find fruition in the sailing vessels of pacific origin, in one way or
another. [NAME REMOVED, as per request 07 November 2003]
It has just been learned that Schooner KLM Barbarossa, during
previous years, sailed under the name: Schooner MONSOON. According to
this source, she was built in Indonesia and then shipped via freighter
for completion of her topside and interior in the US. She sailed the
North Atlantic as MONSOON originally. Anyone with further information is
encouraged to respond. [NAME REMOVED, as per request 07 November 2003]
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