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






Sonntag, 18. März 2012

Back on Barracuda

Last night around ten we arrived in Cartagena, Colombia. It was a bit of a culture clash after all the shinyness and glamour of the St. Maarten yachting world, but it was a good one. The cab ride through the suburbs brought us back in the South American vibe quickly.
To our delight Barracuda was still standing where we left her over five months ago, the lock wasn't majorly seazed up so we could even get in. Overall the boat seems to be in a quite alright condition ( should I say that without having started the engine?), dry inside, just very, very dusty, but we're working on that right now.


The first selfmade cup of tea. Olly's happy.

It took us half a day to get the dust of the deck.


MMC

It's still a lot hotter here than it was in SXM. Time for a siesta.



Yesyesyes!

4 Kommentare:

  1. (y)
    cool, boys. Always nice to have some news. Dad

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  2. Finally... some photos! Balsam für die Mutterseele... *hach* You look happy, Barracuda looks good, this gives me a kind of relief. Looking forward to hearing and (maybe) seeing you on skype!
    Kisses from your mama

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  3. Heey, the parents are still alive!
    Das machen wir mit dem Skype, schreibt einfach mal, wann ihr so Zeit habt, ich kann hier nämlich immer und einfach ins Netz!
    Bis dann, Laszlo

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  4. aber hallo. ein emailcheck wuerds ja schon tun, ich muss demnaechst entscheiden, was ich mit dem Auto mache. Arbeiten hier solltet ihr in den minen, da koennt ihr 2000$ machen. In der Woche. LG M

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