For years, I worked aboard traditional sailing ships as an engineer.
I loved the vessels, the seamanship, the rhythm of life at sea — but I had never even heard of sail cargo.

Then, almost by accident, I joined my first sail cargo company.

And suddenly, traditional sailing had a completely different purpose.

It was no longer only about preserving history or keeping old skills alive. It became something practical. Something alive. A way to move goods, connect people, and rethink how trade could work.

That experience stayed with me.

Ever since then, I’ve been obsessed with understanding how sail cargo operates and why the industry disappeared in the first place.

For centuries, cargo under sail shaped the world. Ports grew around it. Communities depended on it. Products carried stories, places, seasons, and human hands with them.

But as steamships became faster, cheaper, and more reliable during the industrial age, commercial sail slowly disappeared from mainstream trade. What had once connected the world was pushed aside in the name of efficiency.

And yet, sail cargo never fully died.

Over the last few decades, it has quietly started returning — not as nostalgia, but as an alternative. A different relationship with trade. Slower, more transparent, more human.

That is what inspired My Sail Cargo Journey.

Not just the ships themselves, although I fell in love with those too.
What truly captured me was the possibility behind them.

The possibility of rebuilding connection between people and the products they buy.
The possibility of knowing where something came from, who made it, how it crossed the ocean, and why that journey matters.

Sail cargo carries more than goods.

It carries craftsmanship. Heritage. Curiosity. Stories.
The kind of wonder trade once inspired before everything became instant, disposable, and disconnected.

My Sail Cargo Journey exists to explore that possibility — and to document the long road toward building a sail cargo company of my own.

Because maybe trade does not have to feel empty.
Maybe the journey matters too.

- Rocio Delger