21st-28th August 2009 – Not many updates, since I have been on holiday. I did visit the event Delfsail 2009, the area where my ship was build, several nautical musea, etc… More pictures and information will follow, but at this time I’m very busy.
Category: Daily Life around the water - page 29
28th August 2009 – My neighbour is still at the yard, and I went to visit her. Work goes on…
16th August 2009 – In the morning I continued working in the bathroom. In the afternoon I spent my time on three boats, my neighbour, the Watergeus and sailing around in the little speedboat.
13th august 2009 – We made a small drive with the speedboat to see how she would run with her engine repaired. She made some speed, but most of all, we had a great evening. I learned him how to more along another ship as well.
8th August 2009 – Our neighbour fixed the outboard. It was a simple problem, but I had no experience with outboards. Since it was late, we didn’t made a test drive.
7th August 2009 – In the afternoon I intended to explain and learn how to sail a speed boat to a friend who bought such a boat. When we drove the car and trailer into the water, it started to go wrong. The boat was stuck on the trailer. The wheels underneath the boat were stuck by the rust; After a few attempts, the ship was floating. We started the engine and she ran, for about 10 minutes.
We were stuck in the middle of a canal with only two little paddles and some small ends of rope. I made a large rope out if it and we started pulling the boat, each of us did some distance. We fitted underneath most bridges till we were stuck near a low bridge. No radio and no mobile phone aboard, we certainly were in need of help…. A yacht was coming behind us, so I Pushed our boat in front of it, into the middle of the canal. I asked for a tow and they towed us to my barge. They will stay for a few days and the small boat with broken outboard is now also near me. This makes a total of 5 boats on one mooring…
3rd August 2009 – This evening we went looking for a speed boat. A friend of mine wanted a small ship and asked me to have a look. We had a great evening, returned with a boat and we shall try it out on Sunday.
23rd July 2009 – On Saturday we will make the list around the windows. They are hardwood and will be vanished. The inside box of the windows is multiplex wood and had to be painted. All the boxes were painted and I continued cleaning the hold as well. We are making good progress again and it might still work to be living in the hold before the winter arrives.
14 – 19th July 2009 – I spent six days sailing aboard an IJselaak, the Vrouwe Janinge on the Grevelingen in Zeeland. It was a very learning full time. I was very surprised to see and feel how hard it is to work in charter sailing. The first three days we sailed three hour trips with passengers, the other three days we had a German group of young people aboard. Two different experiences, both very interesting to me. I learned a lot and not only about sailing.
12th July 2009 – As a yearly tradition, only for one day this year, I went to the Cactus festival. Sadly enough Joss Stone didn’t come, but it didn’t spoil the evening!
6th June 2009 – In the early morning I helped a neighbour removing his rudder. It will be nicely restored. She is the only ship in Bruges left with a wooden rudder and one of the few that has an owner that takes care of it!
During the day I insulated the front cabin and in the late afternoon I started creating a hole in the front deck to enter the bow rudder for the ship. In February I took it of from the Julie (the spits barge with wooden rudder) and now it’s time to put it on my ship.
1st June 2009 – I quickly went to Oostende voor Anker. Since I wasn’t feeling to well I only stayed for a hour. For pictures, have a look at the Gallery.
17th April 2009 – Yesterday, The Julie was launched in the water and today we brought her back to Bruges. The hull was nicely painted, and if it wasn’t for the the weather, it would have been a perfect day.
3th April 2009 – The last day of the course was a practical one. We went out sailing on the Oosterschelde aboard an IJselaak from 1911.
1st April – 3th April 2009 – Three days I spent in Zierikzee to follow a ‘maten’ course. This course is the basic information you need to work on a charter ship in the Netherlands.
It were three very intensive but also fascinating days. You learn a lot in three days.