Thank you again for the information you brought to this thread. This is another example, for me at least, where a question leads into unexpected and interesting areas. The
Belem is a quite famous French three-master apparently, with a lot of tradition and history. The
French entry in Wikipedia is more complete than the
English one.
As an example, it costs 32 500 € to hire her and the 16 men crew for 3 days at sea and a "load" of maximum 48 pilgrims (the trip from Bordeaux to A Coruña is 5 days and more expensive) and it seems that they are not even for profit since there's a foundation to which you can donate. Their next pilgrimage trip to Compostela is in June 2018 and you need to be a member of a Saint James association if you want to participate. Below are the Compostela pilgrims from 2016 before their departure from France:
Source: article in
SudOuest of 27 June 2016.