Posts Tagged ‘exam’

Yesterday was a pretty cool sailing day again. Will had to do his last blind navigation, we all did some practice on sailing on to a buoy, which was spot on for all of us and after that we anchored off for some real good lunch, Will prepared for us. Around 1400 we headed straight [...]


Engine died…

01Oct08

Third day of prep. Sun was shining. Almost no wind – 3 bft. We skipped leaving the berth in the morning and everybody on the boat did a safety brief. I did everything that could possibly happen on deck. In detail… man over board equipment, flares, helicopter rescueing, life raft and all the other bits [...]


Sunday 2300 I finally walked from the airport to Gibraltar Marina Bay. Our flight was 5 ours late. Actually I arrived by bus because our flight got diverted to Malaga. There we had to wait for a bus that would take us the 100 something kilometers to Gib. Reason for that? Heavy thunderstorms in and [...]