How a Plan comes together
Saturday 17 December 2005 ◷ 18:23
Walking from the tram to the office on friday I noticed a ship in the Veerhaven I hadn't seen there before. Three masts instead of the more common two. Later a BMW getting a bit to close to a noisy Jaguar drew my attention and I took a picture of the scene, including the ship. Back home I'm flipping through the latest Elsevier travel issue and on page 28 I'm thinking "Apart from the iceberg in the background, that ship looks just like...". So the Oosterschelde is back from whereever it was and right in front of my workplace.
Since FFriesland 2002 I know I don't hate sailing. Sail05 wasn't bad either, and BSC has always been uebercool. Combined with my "We don't need no stinkin' airlines' attitude, spending some free time on a ship really going somewhere seemed to be more and more like a good idea. All the way to New York would be a bit far, but reading the Oosterschelde site tells me Rotterdam - Kiel is an option. How cool would it be to step out of the office, cross the street and embark on a sailing trip to Kiel? OK, Rotterdam - Longyearbyen is cooler, but that takes more than a month... Kiel isn't Hamburg, but going to Kiel adds nice things like experiencing Die Eisenbahnhochbrücke über dem Nord-Ostsee-Kanal. Nice plan for June.
Sebastiaan Smid
Thursday 22 December 2005 ◷ 14:25
re: How a Plan comes together
I've sailed one time since then, check the url :P
http://www.squit.nl/2004/05/17/netvlies-zeilt-verder/
Roland van Ipenburg's logging attempt
Saturday 6 May 2006 ◷ 19:50
Oosterschelde planned and confirmed