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05. Mai 2024

Getting ready and heading to Norway

How will this all fit in the car?!

Luckily the apartment in Borsfleth is big enough...

Before going back on the water, the hull needs some painting (three times).

The insulation is also being repaired to protect against the cold water.

Toplicht in Hambrug, a place, where you can get almost every thing for your boat.

New batteries - installation between the alternator and the Lithium battery. Every thing takes three times longer as planed on a boat...

And here we go...

... towards the water.

Finally back on the water :-)

Monitor new seals and bearings.

And get rid of all the moss (first with the high pressure cleaner and more than 10 hours of scrubing).

Visitung Lidl and EDEKA for more than three times - five overfilled shopping carts.

Next 8 hour job...

... write everything down and put it away.

And cook different types of meat to make them last several month.

After that, the rigg needs to be adjusted...

... and the new furling genoa installed from the top of the mast.

View from the top of the mast over Glückstadt.

Evening walk to get the fenders pumped up.

Restarting the water-system on an evening. It wasn't that easy. We had to cut new gaskets and flush the lines.

Visit from our hosts, with whom we were able to spend the first week in Borthsfleth - and some amusing evenings...

Afternoon walk on the dyke.

Slow crusing down the Elbe river towards Helgoland...

... going with the strong current.

Relief spreads and the anticipation of the coming trip increases.

Short stop in Cuxhaven to wait for the turning point of the tide again.

Markers for the channel in the Elbe river.

The weather is very unstable. That's why we're waiting for better winds on Heligoland.

Gannets nesting on the rocks of Helgoland.

Many are sittingright next to the walking trails

And off we go - with light winds.

A lot of time for reading.

Passing around hundreds of wind turbines.

The wind is picking up and the short waves became uncomfortably high.

A particularly high wave put the boat on its side. The burning fuel from the cooking stove poured over these plastic boxes and there was a small fire in the kitchen...

Crossing into norwegian waters. The wind has left us and we have to sail under engine for several hours.

An orca family crossed our path only five meters to our side.

After aprox. 55 hours on the water, we reached the small island of Rott.

Evening walk on shaky legs...

The next morning ist cold and we habe planed to put our diesel oven into operation - because there was dirt in the diesel, we had to take the regulator apart and clean the lines...

... four hours later. And due to the work we did not feel cold at all :-)

Anyone who has ever been to Rott Island, remembers these jeans (several friends asked, if they are still there...)

Sheeps grazing freely all over the island.

Huge eagles...

... unfortunately we didn't have the telephoto with us and had to take photos with our cell phone.

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