Kategorie: Weltreise

Heute haben wir endlich mal ausgeschlafen, erst gegen 12 Uhr sind wir aus dem Bett gestiegen. Die ganze Nacht über fühlte sich unser geräumiges Schlafgemach im Vorschiff ungewohnt leer an, da wir es nur noch zu zweit geteilt haben. Nach einem ersten Kaffee räumten wir mal gründlich auf und haben einen großen Müllsack voller Zeug, das wir nicht mehr brauchen aussortiert. Auch unser Problem mit dem Windgenerator haben wir nun anseitsweise im Griff. Nach Überprüfung aller Kabelverbindungen am circuit-break und Schalter lädt die Windmühle zumindest intermittierend. Wir kommen auf lange Sicht aber wohl nicht darum Teile des Kabels zu erneuern. Auch unsere kleine Videokamera haben wir endlich wieder gefunden, so dass auch unser YouTube-Kanal in Balde mit neuem Material gefüllt werden kann. Jetzt sitzen wir vor den Marina Facilities und nutzen ein privates unverschlüsseltes W-Lan-Netzwerk um diese Seite zu aktualisieren, während wir dem Live-Album von Lotto King Karl lauschen. Die Geschwindigkeit des Internets läßt allerdings zu wünschen übrig. Die Duschen des Hafens haben wir gerade auch ausgiebig benutzt, da wir ja den Türcode bereits kennen. Bis Dienstag soll der Wind aus Richtung West wehen, danach dann langsam auf Nordwest drehen. Der aktuelle Plan ist also Dienstag Richtung Biskaya zu starten. So lange bleiben wir auf der Ankorage vor St. Peter Port liegen und genießen das Stadtleben. Aus sicherer Quelle wissen wir allerdings, dass am Donnerstag auf Jersey Karneval gefeiert wird. Wer mich kennt, weiß ja das ich da kaum widerstehen kann. Naja mal gucken. Und zum Schluss das Beste: Endlich gibt es Fotos vom bisherigen Törn unter Bilder, hochgeladen innerhalb einer guten Stunde 🙂 Wir bemühen uns also! In diesem Sinne: Kölle Alaaf und Cheers mates.

Guestwriter Mathijs We woke up in a nice bay at st peter“s port. A view on the fortress, the village and the hills. Sun shine in the morning. I had a nice breakfast, and read a book in the cockpit. At 12 i row to Kira where I wake up everyone. We go to the beach with the dingy’s and walk to a war museum, placed in old oil storage tunnels in the mountain. In the museum are weapons, pamphlets, newspapers, medailles and so on. It is really interesting but also sad; announcements of deatgh penalties are all over the place. Nikita buys a coin from a Reichsmark. We did something cultural! In an restaurant with a view over the bay we had a nice meal with burger’s. We could see our boats. We go back to the boats, lift the anchor and go to the marina to buy diesel unfortunately is it low water and the jetty with the pump is not reachable with the boats. Tim rows tot the jetty and tanks diesel. The salesman tells him he is allowed to fill the tank on the dingy or on the rocks but not to spill on the jetty, amazing how they think about ecological damage. With a strong current, we go on motor to Herm. Carefully between the rocks, we anchor. At low water we reach the harbor with the dingy’s, one we leave at an buoy, the other one we carry up the beach. In the pub we drink a beer and we walk over the island. On a nice desolated beach we sit and admire the wonderful view. We climb over the rocks next to the water, sometimes hard, crazy, dangerous but fun. We meet a couple fisherman and we watch them fishing: they are professionals; carefully looking at the angles. They catch a small fish, and they share a bottle rum-cola. One of them lived in Holland and spoke Dutch. We walk back to the village over this beautiful island, nice plants, palm trees and a cute village. We arrive again at the pub and I have a nice pint of Guinness. Later at the beach are we lucky that someone pulled the dingy higher and attached it. (thanks!) Claus and I row in the complete dark to the other dingy, which is hard to see. The sea is glowing with spots of phyto-plankton. At Kira we will prepare a nice meal.

Geustwriter Nikita: When Claus was taking a piss in the middle of the night he had the most amazing surprise, their dingy was floating 250 meters away towards the rocks. I think it was my fault so I almost had the swim towards it but I implied Claus on a really hidden way to put on his dry-suit and flippers to pick it up. I still feel sorry I didn’t made a picture of his face diving into the cold water on 5 o‘ clock in the morning. Just 2 hours later one of the guests Cristopher wanted to go home because he had to work so our nice fellow Claus jumped into his dingy to bring him back to shore. So he stayed in bed till 2.00 pm while my dad and Tim were swimming from the boat to shore. So I had the stupid „healthy“ idea (when I think back about this it’s sounds completely unhealthy cause I’m known as the sleeping sailor) to do the same and swim a long time in this nice clear water. So I jumped into the water 5 minutes before we left and when I was finally in the water I didn’t know how to go back up faster, cause I was really fast, damn that was cold! When I dried I finally had my very first sailing (with sails) day on Kira and it was really nice. She is so more different than Lada Depmak, I really liked it. Now we are finally at Guersney and had our first shower in days (besides Claus, don’t blame him for wash himself with petroleum, if he likes that, just let him be). Finally Tim and Claus shaved their beards and even Tim gave Clause a nice ear-operation. After the ear-operations and showering we had a really nice meal Claus made with curry, broccoli, chicken, rice and salad. Now it’s a Saturday and we are all to tired to go out so we are sitting inside Kira and the men are drinking beer that means: Nikita is sitting with a glass of water while the big people have fun. Cheers mates