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






Mittwoch, 23. März 2011

Moonsplash 2011, Anguilla

Last weekend we took Barracuda over to Anguilla to see the Moonsplash Festival.
We enjoyed the reggaevibes and also being out anchored in a nice bay again after more than a month in the lagoon.
Here's a small selection of the photos Olly took.









Freitag, 18. März 2011

Crew-change

Dear followers of our Grand Tour, we have an announcement to make:
Jan-Vincent decided toend his travels for now. He left Barracuda and the Caribbean in order to go back to Europe and enlargen his knowledge at university. He flew on monday this week and arrived (after some complications) save home.
I'm very lucky that new crewmember Oliver joined Barracuda. He's an Englishman from London, an aspiring artist and photographer. We met him on Martinique, together with his mate Patrick who left for London earlier. After our common trip to Dominica we decided to join forces and to go to St. Maarten together.
Olly is going to stay on board for an unknown and unlimited amount of time.
Here's some pictures of him to get to know him a little better.
Check out his works on www.olivertc.blogspot.com


Dienstag, 15. März 2011

Heineken-Regatta 2011

Two weeks ago we joined the Heineken-Regatta on 100 foot swan "Varsovie".
It was three days of nice and fast sailing, a good change from our average speed of four to five knots...
Jan and me worked on the foredeck, Olly was the Photographer.
Here's some of his shots!





Montag, 14. März 2011

More




Flashback to Dominica







Finally there's some more photos!
We start with some pictures that Olly took during our trip to Dominica dated back to the time before St. Martin.

This was where we got to know Patrick and Olly.
Enjoy!