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Skipper:
Henk Haazen
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Henk is from the
Netherlands and has been living in New Zealand for the past 27 years.
Together with his partner Bunny and their daughter, Ruby, they operate
their charter vessel TIAMA.
 Henk
has more then 29 years of sailing experience in different parts of the
world from Antarctica to the Arctic and many seas in between, in different sailing vessels
from 100 year old traditionally rigged Baltic traders to purpose built
ice expedition ships.
His sailing experience began as an engineer and deckhand on board
the FRI, a 150ft Baltic trader. After working for 6 months
replacing the timber decks on Fri, he sailed across the Atlantic and
into the Caribbean doing charter work in that region and up and down
the coast of Central America for several years. FRI worked
as a Charter vessel to groups which were involved in development,
peace and social change projects. While FRI was based in the
US, Henk worked as delivery crew on-board vessels in the Caribbean
region.
From there Henk joined Greenpeace as engineer on the first Rainbow
Warrior. Six months of work saw the boat turned from a motor vessel
to a sailing vessel and ready to start her voyage out across the Pacific
to the Marshall Islands, Kiribati, Vanuatu and New Zealand. She was
to go on to Tahiti as part of a protest flotilla against the French
nuclear testing at Moruroa, but on July 10th 1985 she was blown up
by the French secret service, killing the ship's photographer.
Henk continued to work for Greenpeace on board its ships as engineer
and bosun and as action co-ordinator for a number of projects in the
Pacific, the US and Latin America. He worked for five years as the
logistics and re-supply manager for the base camp Greenpeace established
in Antarctica. He sailed to Antarctica four times in this period,
in both large icebreakers as well as small purpose built sailing boats.
Henk continues to work part time as a logistics consultant to Greenpeace
specialzing in Arctic and Antarctic operations.
From 1991 until 1998, when not at sea, Henk built TIAMA himself,
to enable him to combine his practical and logistical skills with
his love for adventuring and visiting remote places, while at the
same time to pursue worthwhile projects that would add to the wellbeing
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TIAMA
was designed by well-known New Zealand naval architect Alan Mummery
to Henk's requirements in 1991.
Prior to sailing, getting a strong foothold in life, Henk travelled
and worked in different places in the world (Israel, USA, Latin
America, Canada and Europe). During 1980-82 Henk travelled on a
motorbike from Alaska to the southern tip of South America. He speaks
English, Dutch and has a working knowledge of German and Spanish.
For the last 10 years Henk has been skippering Tiama on expeditions to some of
the most remote parts of the region mainly in the polar regions, but also on a 3
month expedtion on the Fly river penetrating deep into the jungle of Papua new
Guinea, please have a look at the captains log for more details.
Henk holds the following marine tickets:
New Zealand Offshore master,500 tons, Unlimted
Marine Engineer class 6
RYA Yacht
master Ocean, Instructor, commercially endorsed.
NZ Master
yacht 3000 tons, Unlimited
It was during the South American motorcycle trip that Henk met
Bunny. She sailed on board Fri for three years as a deckhand and
in 1984 was also part of the Rainbow Warrior crew.
Since 1987 Bunny has worked full-time for Greenpeace as the South
Pacific Regional Co-ordinator and has been responsible for the work
that Greenpeace does in the Pacific region. She has spent three
years establishing and running a regional office in Suva, Fiji.
Prior to going to Latin America, Bunny lived and worked in the US
and Europe. She has a degree in Political Science and English. She
has a strong interest in community development issues and likes
to stay active on local issues of human and civil rights.
Since 1998 Henk and Bunny together with their daughter Ruby have
been sailing and chartering Tiama to the New Zealand offshore islands,
the great Southern Ocean, Cape Horn, Antarctica, the Chilean channels
Papua new Guinea and Australia.
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Owner
and Charter Agent:
Henk Haazen - Waterline Yachts,
Unit 7b/
148 Quay street,Auckland
Central, New Zealand
Ph: (64-9) 372 3105;
Mobile: (021) 372 3105 E-mail: tiama@clear.net.nz
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