Ziegelhausen III: Für meine momentane Kondition und Fähigkeiten ein wenig überzogen, aber wer draußen gerne alles ab 7 aufwärts klettert, schön, für mich maximal im Nachstieg. Und schön gelegen allemal.

Falling 1 from as3.1415rin on Vimeo.

Falling 2 from as3.1415rin on Vimeo.

Kiwi in Preetz, northern Germany.

Kiwi in Paris, France.

Kiwi in Paris, France

Kiwi in Marigot, St. Martin, “Netherlands”

Kiwi on the seaside, Marigot, St. Martin, France

Kiwi navigating

Kiwi sailing

Kiwi listening to weather information

Kiwi drinking tea in the salon

Kiwi at Saba Rock, British Virgin Islands

Kiwi searching for some shade, BVIs

Kiwi in a calm looking for some wind, somewhere on the Atlantic

Kiwi and the boats power supplies

Kiwi and lunch

Kiwi on Flores, Acores, Portugal

Kiwi checking free WiFi

Kiwi cooking fish from the acores

Kiwi drinking Mate from Argentina, sitting next to some parsley from the acores

Kiwi taking a shower

Kiwi at his standard spot

Kiwi checking the engine

Kiwi arriving in England …

Kiwi running the engine for hours …

Kiwi leaving Plymouth

Kiwi close to Helgoland, back in Germany

Kiwi approaching his homecountry on the River Elbe, Germany …

Back in northern germany since late evening of last sunday, july 11th.

Pia uploaded some of my panoramas.

On the video the waves look quite acceptable …

Sailing without sails from as3.1415rin on Vimeo.

Calm on the Atlantic from as3.1415rin on Vimeo.

Dolphins from as3.1415rin on Vimeo.

Horta Harbour in the evening from as3.1415rin on Vimeo.

after falmouth we continue via fowey, cawsand and plymouth where we currently are.

flourescing water behind the boat:

We met Frigga right again when we left Horta, a boat we met already somewhere in the middle of the atlantic ocean:

a good example of a weather chart we were able to receive using our short wave radio and a demodulating program on the PC:

We should’ve started storing cheese like this already earlier, quite effective:

2-3 days before arriving in england we saw some pilot wales:

well, my plan was to write more about life in general onboard this sailing boat, important daily things like saving water or how to cook, nightshifts and stuff in general, but somehow it turned our that we’re busy all the time. and due to the current weather we’re about to leave on monday, that’s tomorrow or today, depending on how you want to put it.

on http://www.climaat.angra.uac.pt/WebCams/index7.htm you can actually see us if you’re fast enough, there is this wavebreaker, and it has some broader parts on the right side, with some construction site on it, just in front there, there is the sailing boat i’m now living on for almost 2 months. the marina was so full that we had to anchor in the harbour.

until the azores we’ve been 3 ppl, the owner of the ship, a journalist returning from south america and me. leaving soon to England, we’re only 2, the journalist left towards home early, not having had that much fun on the atlantic (http://www.pia-roeder.de/ )

yesterday we already bought about 4 big backpacks of food for the crossing to england which is expected to take around two weeks. this morning I left again for some the supermarket, finishing that part. we continued cleaning the boat a bit, found a hole in the cockpit explaining the saltwater in some storage room and found salt-water at another place below the seats in the ‘salon’.

some days ago we already painted some logo onto the wall in the harbour of horta on faial, as it is tradition. and met some more people from germany returning, most them today watching football. (not us, we helped some guy repairing his sail and reinstalling it (90m^2))

a way to check the weather we’re currently facing is e.g. using grib files or checking out http://www.passageweather.com/ .

pia already uploaded some pictures on flickr, you can check them on http://www.flickr.com/photos/33787195@N06/ , also some pictures of mr. kiwi are included.

so far so good, you’ll hear again something from England

http://www.climaat.angra.uac.pt/WebCams/index7.htm

we arrived yesterday morning shortly after midnight in the harbour of Lajes, Flores on the Azores. Already been ashore yesterday, slightly having problems walking on fixed ground, and bought some fresh oranges and apples. and the bernd met some other people he already met somewhere before on his trip. some km for a walk, but that was already sufficient. today some more distance.

the crossing was ok, even though pia as well as me had again problems in the beginning with seasickness, bernd didnt, of course. therefore I just ate a cookie and a small pot with noodle soup during the first two days – more was just not possible, even though I know that I usually feel better with a full stomach (as on polarstern ). things got better afterwards, even had some calms further on. during the last week we had up to 7 beaufort, sometimes going around 5 knots without any sails hoisted, ‘surfing’ down waves of 4-5m. it was quite loud inside the ship during these periods. getting the weather maps via short wave radio we tried to dodge low pressure areas and calms, arriving here after 24 days and 2700 nautical miles.

now since yesterday on the british virgin islands, today in spanishtown, a little ‘town’ with two main roads, a small ferry terminal some shops and a lot of small churches.

( skipping a lot of stuff from St. Martin ) We decided to leave from St. Martin the day before yesterday. Taking care of some smaller issues like getting rid of an old sail and buying some more food on the dutch side, we said goodbye to some others we got to know there, also some germans we went on a little trip with the week before. but ‘unfortunately’ we had to take the bridge at 17:30 to leave the lagoon and then prepare our departure. we left at 10 in the evening for the 80 nautical miles to the british virigin islands (BVIs), expecting the trip to take something around 16 hours, that we arrive in the early afternoon.
Actually the winds turned out to be stronger, the waves to be more chaotic than expected. the latter was caused by varying water depth, and caused he waves to come from all sides. We arrived after 11 hours at 9:00 at the reaf near to prickley keys island – a lot faster than expected. with an average speed of 8 knots on sea pia as well as me had problems with seasickness. I managed not to lose my dinner and vomited later, but at some point I wasnt able any more to drink nor to eat, usually I know that I feel a lot better while seasick when not being hungry or thirsty. the waves in the moonlit night look a bit bigger than they actually are and sometimes the boat was surfing on bigger waves, gaining speed up to 12.5knots with only one reffed sail, the other sail was removed after half the distance to have a nicer passage. each of us slept some hours, surprisingly easy it was to fall asleep, even though the waves hitting the boat from the side were quite loud.
having arrived in calm waters again we anchored and made breakfast to recover from the night. later the day we continued along the north coast of virgin gorda towards spanishtown were we anchored in the evening and checked in this morning.

Now back into the water, air temperatures are a bit higher than comfortable, at least inside or when there is not much wind.