But quite happy as you can see.
Kristof hiding like usual and taking the picture.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
sailing trip 1 fotos
But quite happy as you can see.
Kristof hiding like usual and taking the picture.
story of the internet
Where to fit the satelite dish for the internet and voice system???
As we found out today a very bad spot.
When the boat is in the wrong direction no internet, voice seems to be going all the time.
Will have to resolve this.
What can we do without internet.
As we found out today a very bad spot.
When the boat is in the wrong direction no internet, voice seems to be going all the time.
Will have to resolve this.
What can we do without internet.
fotos preparation boat on Monday
short status update
we are now in anal between Kiel & the Northsea.
The weather is cold but dry.
Yesterday was really nice, we started one day earlier as expected and have done about 130km.
We arrived in a marina close to Kiel at 3.00am
This morning we left the marina at 7.00 like cheap dutch guys to make sure we didn't have to pay
We had to learn a lot yesterday, never sailed a boat like this.
Lucky we have an excellent sailing captain (Ruppert) who is teaching us.
The trimming capabilities of the boat are amazing but that makes it so difficult.
The sailing is amazing, yesterday we averaged on 80% of windspeed.
Sailing at night is an amazing experience, quite scary. On a sailing boat it is much quieter than on a motorboat but you have a lot less control, you cannot just change course.
You really have to plan the course, but that is part of the fun ofcourse.
Today is a day under engine.
We still need to do about 40km to the end of the channel, we are doing about 12km/h so almost done.
Then we have a short sail to the first Marina on the Northsea.
Plan is to leave tomorrow early depending the weather forecast.
Tomorrow could be the toughest day.
The internet is giving us issues, it was supposed to work all the time but here in the canal it doesn't.
Still trying to figure our why.
I will try to upload foto's later.
Kristof
The weather is cold but dry.
Yesterday was really nice, we started one day earlier as expected and have done about 130km.
We arrived in a marina close to Kiel at 3.00am
This morning we left the marina at 7.00 like cheap dutch guys to make sure we didn't have to pay
We had to learn a lot yesterday, never sailed a boat like this.
Lucky we have an excellent sailing captain (Ruppert) who is teaching us.
The trimming capabilities of the boat are amazing but that makes it so difficult.
The sailing is amazing, yesterday we averaged on 80% of windspeed.
Sailing at night is an amazing experience, quite scary. On a sailing boat it is much quieter than on a motorboat but you have a lot less control, you cannot just change course.
You really have to plan the course, but that is part of the fun ofcourse.
Today is a day under engine.
We still need to do about 40km to the end of the channel, we are doing about 12km/h so almost done.
Then we have a short sail to the first Marina on the Northsea.
Plan is to leave tomorrow early depending the weather forecast.
Tomorrow could be the toughest day.
The internet is giving us issues, it was supposed to work all the time but here in the canal it doesn't.
Still trying to figure our why.
I will try to upload foto's later.
Kristof
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Trip 2 is through the Kiel Canal
126 km on motor through a canal.
The canal is used a lot by big ships.
Some fotos of what we should see:
The canal is used a lot by big ships.
Some fotos of what we should see:
The boat
It is a small (35 feet = 11m) fast sailboat.
On our test trip we did 21knots (x1.8 for km/h) which is fantastic for a sailboat.
see:
- Vendor Site
- A panorama of the boat
- A very nice movie (if you want to download the .mov file for more quality)
If the weather is bad, everything will get wet.
meteo forecast Sat 15 May
cold and windy
In denmark we should be quite protected
For wedn-thursday we should be on northsea in front of Germany they expect 18 knots coming from sea to land which gives rough seas, let's hope they are wrong.
Good part is the wind is predicted N - NW which is the good direction.
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