Sail Aid was founded in 2017 by Sequoia Sun, former Captain for Greenpeace (2006), co-founder and Exec Director of OceansWatch North America (2008-2010), and captain for International Rescue Group (2014-2017). Since 2010 Captain Sequoia has been sailing to Haiti from New England on his 1980 Nautical Development 56’ ketch Tandemeer, delivering humanitarian aid cargo there and doing solar panel installations and solar powered well pump installations. May 2024 will be his 20th voyage to Haiti to the small island of Ile A Vache off the south coast with approx. 4000 pounds of food, 120 cases of food and about 60 solar panels.
More information at www.sailaidinternational.org and https://www.facebook.com/SailAidInternational
If you are a sailor with your own boat, you can join Sail Aid or just network with them to coordinate plans and deliveries to Haiti, Puerto Rico, or other islands and coastal areas you plan to sail. Sail Aid can help arrange cargo and contacts.
If you are a sailor but don’t have a boat, or even a non-sailor but interested to learn and volunteer on a Sail Aid voyage, contact them about crewing opportunities to sequoia@tandemeer.org.
