7th August 2023 – At lunch time, the news came to me that the Jogo 2 has sunk in the river Schelde near Dendermonde. We don’t know yet what happened but on the two occasions I was aboard, I met a fine crew on a fine ship.
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7th August 2023 – In the morning I noticed the old spits barge Modena, now converted into a cruise ship, being moored at Stalhille. One hour later I managed to take a few pictures of her
6th August 2023 – Skippers came with a nice collection of items for the museum, most of them pieces I don’t have. Besides the objects, they gave me old postcards, documents and books. Enough items to keep u busy for the next couple of months!
5th August 2023 – At the back of the ship, there is a small space with the water tanks. It was filled with spare parts of the engine and some tools. I wasn’t aware of what I had stored there. It was all put there when I just bought the ship, but I never go into that space. Now it is empty! I will put the useful stuff in my warehouse. I will throw away the other stuff.
Now I need to clean this space and then I will fill it with spare parts for the museum.
4th August 2023 – We visited the museum in Dunkirk, including the tall ship and a lightvessel.
4th August 2023 – The new website for our research Library aboard Tordino is online (in Dutch only at the moment).
3rd August 2023 – The Corylophida came out of Plassendale Bridge, heading to Bruges
And while I was driving there, I also took a picture of Tordino…
3rd August 2023 – The plan is to move everyday some stuff from the front. Today I filled my car with magazines, books and other items that still need to be catalogued. Another set of shelves are empty!
2nd August 2023 – Just drove to Enkhuizen to pick up some more books. On the way back I stopped at a few second hand shops and came home with a car fully loaded with items and furniture for the museum.
1st August 2023 – While driving in Oudenburg I was able to take a picture of the English barge Happy Dream.
1st August 2023 – After scanning the covers and adding the books to the Library inventory system, it was now time to add the books the Library itself aboard Tordino. Six boxes with books and archives were nicely put away on the right shelve in the Library.
While I was aboard the ship, I continued cleaning the front part. I made another run with my car filled with stuff.
29th July 2023 – I bought plywood for the front of the ship. I’m storing it in the workshop until the end of the tourist season.
I removed some shelves and some personal stuff from the Watergeus. I’m slowly getting there. Emptying 15m2 is obviously not so easy…. Behind every pile of stuff, there is some more stuff coming up. Now I found some chain. Will be useful for the anchor of my little boat. So you see, never throw anything away. Is always useful.
In the afternoon, I mounted the shelves in the workshop. They will be used for spare parts of the Volvo Engine and other tools from Tordino.
27th July 2023 – Since I have no cover and it has been raining badly, there was no other option then emptying the boat by hand. The old fashioned way…
27th July 2023 – In between scanning, I went to Tordino for putting the books at the right place. I will be happy when I can start doing the conversion to gain some more space…
In the meantime, and since it is raining so badly, I started on a separate website for the Library.
26th July 2023 – Another evening of working for the Library of Tordino.
