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Von Portosin über Vilaboa, Pontevedra über Porto nach Lissabon

Von Portosin aus sind am 30.08. bei gutem Wind in Richtung Pedras Negras auf der Halbinsel San Vincente aufgebrochen, wo wir den Ratschlägen des „Cruising Galicia“ folgend,...

About life on board and our trip to Camarinias and Portosin

Thank you all for your concerned inquiries! Yes, Perkins is doing very well! He has gotten used to the new camshaft and also seems to have made friends with the new ignition...

A sea voyage, that is fun ....

Across the Bay of Biscay - or: a sea voyage, that is fun From Falmouth to A Coruna from August 19th to 22nd, 2019 Always keeping an eye on the Windfinder and in constant WhatsApp...

Falmouth on 18.08.2019

The weather report for Saturday wasn't great. Wind from the west to southwest at 4 to 5 Bft. On Sunday, the wind would be even stronger. So, I (he!) decided to leave on Saturday...

Salcombe and Plymouth

The current slowly pushed us towards leeward - a cliff with rocks in front. The downwind breeze barely filled the genoa. I decided to engage again. With idle speed and a...

Küste Südenglands

Wir sind jetzt zurück aus Griechenland. Es ist der 17.07.2019 und es ist spät. Die Uhr steht auf 23 Uhr. Wir haben eine Schlafbox im Flughafen gebucht. Einfach genial - eine...

To the land of the centaurs

Travel blog Taishan

The Conquest of England

Bruges, Dunkirk, Dover, Eastbourne, Brighton

Der Weg von Amsterdam nach Dover

Meine Mädels haben mich nun verlassen. Wie werde ich ohne sie zurechtkommen? Nach noch nicht einmal 2 Wochen bin ich in eine gewisse Abhängigkeit geschlittert, die mir gar nicht...

From Harlingen to Amsterdam

June 20-22, 2019 From Harlingen via Stavoren and Volendam to Amsterdam The night at sea and the exhausting and partly unnecessary concern for fuel and sail took its toll; so, a...

Cuxhaven - Norderney - Harlingen

Pinnipedia in the harbor basin and other phenomena Or: June 17, 2019 - Our journey from Cuxhaven to Norderney and Harlingen Have we already talked about floating docks? Ok, not...

Still in the Kiel Canal

Still in the Kiel Canal 16.6.2019 Crew member of the day is undoubtedly our Almut, who not only googled the interpretation of the light signals at the first lock gate ("Why? Green...

In the Kiel Canal 15th June 2019 - In the Kiel Canal Kiel one week before the Kiel Week is similar to the Marienplatz one week before the Christkindlmarkt. One doesn't know what is better. However, we didn't really have much time to think about it, not only because we were only in the Kiel Yachting Harbor for less than 24 hours, but also because we were busy: with shopping and grilling, of course, but - at least as far as the author of these lines is concerned - also with mundane breadwinning, which was quite a risky undertaking given the torrential rains, because you should know that the Taishan is not completely watertight! It surprises us daily with new semipermeables. Yesterday it was the skylight in the salon's turn - right at the spot where, with deadlines looming, I set up my laptop, it dripped - with annoying, waterboarding-like and, above all, laptop-damaging persistence. What do lonely poets do in such a case? Quite simply - they do the classic Spitzweg. Only the umbrella, which I opened in the salon for my protection and secured to the salon ceiling with gaffa tape, was not black but green. The attentive reader, of course, has not missed the fact that the Taishan is not completely watertight. We've had that before. The hatch in the forepeak also did not live up to what the silicone seals promised and greatly disturbed the sleep of the ladies. Not so this morning: as soon as the first drops fell, actually, just like the weather app predicted at seven o'clock in the morning, the early riser of the female crew was already on the move: hatch open, umbrella out. What sounds clever doesn't pass the practical test - the ice-cold rain shower on bright red, sunburn-damaged shoulders is not really pleasant. Thanks to our crewmate Almuth and her - well, let's call it weather app "affinity" - we started the morning in appropriate clothing. Expensive enough it was. But the skipper's oilskin has seen better days and had to be reimpregnated - in the salon, of course. After our dramatic start with a lifeboat cruiser operation and total engine failure, the past two days were relatively uneventful. So it was time to spice up our "journey along the European coasts" once again with a highlight. Our skipper had organized 6 (if you asked me, it was 7) Beaufort for this purpose and provided us with spectacular maneuvers to dock and undock in and outside the locks of the Kiel Canal, made more difficult by swell, heavy rain, indecision, and discussions about the interpretation of the entrance rules. Just when boredom could have set in due to the straight and lined up 98 kilometers of waterway ahead of us, Almut had arranged a meeting with the much-praised sailing guru Jako and his crewmate Chris somewhere at kilometer whatever, where they went alongside and briefly exchanged information about the weather, past and upcoming canal miles, wished each other mast, breakage, and the obligatory handbreadth of rum in the cup, and went their own nautical miles. Our destination for today was the gas station in the Upper Eider Harbor in Rendsburg, where we fueled up with 70 liters - hopefully free of rapeseed oil - diesel and found a nice little berth. Tomorrow, we will cover the remaining 68 canal kilometers and go through the second and final lock of the Kiel Canal in Brunsbüttel.