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






Freitag, 12. August 2011

Cartagena, Colombia


the recent crew, back in Santa Marta


our catch on the way, a small mahi-mahi, gave us a nice dinner

a school of dolphins accompanied us for hours on the second day.
they were very curious and made some acrobatic jumps for us.

around the coast are always impressive thunderstorms that light up the whole sky.
good to watch them from a distance.
the skyline of cartagena de indias.
for me the biggest city since casablanca.

sometimes you get caught in one of these clouds- and have to deal with it.
here i'm using ollys mask, i don't know why people use skiing ones.
we got the bad weather just after entering the boca grande entrance.
the visibility was so bad i was weary of crashing into one of the moored tankers...
In the early morning we arrived at the anchorage in Cartagena de Indias. After two days of sailing with very unstable winds we were very happy to drop anchor next to our swedish friends from Pourbon, aka Birka.

3 Kommentare:

  1. Hey Jungs, auch wenn ich nicht dauernd was dazu schreibe verfolge ich doch was passiert, daher: danke für die schönen Bilder!
    Michael

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  2. Ganz genau! Schließe mich meinem Vorredner an :o)

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  3. Ach übrigens Laz: In deiner Gewitter-Montur könntest du glatt in "Delikatessen" mitspielen :-D

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