Der Plan



This is the blog of our travels with s/y Barracuda.

The trip started in August 2010 from Harlingen in the Netherlands as a young man's adventure by Jan-Vincent Nickl and Laszlo Schöffer, both born of the year '89 (also the owners of 'Barracuda').

After crossing the Atlantic Ocean and cruising the Eastern Caribbean islands for a while, Jan left the boat and Oliver Clasper, a young artist and photographer (born of '88) from London joined in. We plan for this year to cross the South Pacific.

The boat is a dutch-built sloop,ten metres long, year of construction 1975. She's a Cumulant 3 to be more precise, designed by 'Van-der-Vlis'.

Most of the photos will be posted on Olly's blog, check it out:

www.olivertc.blogspot.com






Montag, 27. September 2010

San Francisco




Hello people,

saturday the 25.09. we arrived in San Francisco. It was a longer trip than the ones before but weve had good winds so we decided to push through. It was nice to sail into the night again, what we have not done since the arrival in viveiro.

It really is a fun city espeacially at night. Fortunately our arrival was on a saturday so we could start exploring nightlife right away.

Well, we ended up in a club called europe which opened at about 4 and no idea when it closes for it was still crowded when we left at about 8 in the morning.

When we came in the rivermouth we passed one of the 'aida' ships, they got really close and hundreds of german tourists greeted us. Those ships are really everywhere, we saw them in amsterdam, la coruna and now here.

Right now we're staying in a marina with a nice view at the famous 'Golden Gate Bridge' (see photo) to be able to see the city. Tomorrow we're planning to go to an anchorage where there's a ferry to the city-centre supposed to be.

The descision not to go along morocco but straight to madeira is made. So we have to get some things together and prepare us and the boat for this trip. When the time has come to go further you will hear from us.

Till then take good care

laja

6 Kommentare:

  1. Hey, if you continue at such speed you will be at 快速みえ next weekend. Do you want to come for a visit? And please: Could you send my regards to Russel, the boss of Ko Olina Marina, when you arrive at Hawaii? Also to the Hawaiian Hawks community that just live three miles north - I have forgotten the picture postcard from Tokyo that i had promised 13 years ago, all the time up to now. A little hint: Ask for Anthony if you want to smoke a good dobbie. He's the one who's always flying without moving one little feather of his lazy wings.
    Regards,

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  2. Fast hätte ichs geglaubt. Bis ich den Tourenplan der AIDAaura fand, die am 24.09.2010 um 18:00h von La Coruna kommend in Lissabon einzulaufen plante (http://www.aidarouten.de/Routen/AIDA_Tourenplan.pdf).
    Hab ich euch eiskalt erwischt, was?

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  3. hi jungs.jetzt.seh schon ihr habt ne komplett scheisse zeit.mal ernsthaft,das klingt richtig nach spass und sind die art von nachrichten,die ich auch oma und opa weitergeben kann ohne gleich nen herzklappenabriss zu provozieren.haut rein.euer tantchen

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  4. wacka wacka ... its time for...

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  5. euch beiden alles gute auf dem Weg nach Mohammedia und liebe Grüße aus dem heute
    sonnigen berg

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  6. Laszlos Mom + Micha Van De Griech7. Oktober 2010 um 08:39

    Hi guys !
    Sea can be kind of funny, as we recognize in the moment, sticking on the island of Hydra because of bad weather...
    On the other hand: nice chance to spend some extra holidays on this paradise, with great food and a lot of ouzo (opaaaa !)
    Good to hear that everything is fine on your side !
    Lucky winds and bon voyage !

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