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The principal component of our life on board
Someone: „Hey Finn, wake up! It´s 01:30 a.m. You´re duty begins in 25 minutes.“Me: „Ohhh, good morning… thank you for waking me up. How is the weather outside at the moment?“Someone: „It’s a bit warmer than yesterday, like 17°…“This is… mehr lesen
Living in cabins – The horror you might think it is?
When I stepped into my cabin, which has the number eight out of ten cabins in total, for the first time, I thought that life in this little room would be very difficult, but now I see that it is… mehr lesen
A day in Falmouth
The English Channel – a passage of approximately 400 nautical miles. Sounds like a relatively easy task, right? Well, in our case sailing the English Channel brought along a few problems: Because of a big area of low-pressure above England… mehr lesen
Sea sickness is mostly bad, but not only!
Sea sickness is one of the most terrible feelings I have ever experienced in my entire life. People who get sick when they are in cars might be familiar with this feeling, which feels like someone is stirring in your… mehr lesen
The wind can change your plans
People are sitting around and writing their diary. In the night, the moon is shining and the first stars are rising on the dark sky. Soon we will be sailing out of the calm Kiel Channel. I am standing on… mehr lesen
It’s not ‘goodbye’, it’s ‘see you soon’
‘One day at sea is like three days at land.’ By now it’s already difficult to remember every little detail that happened on sunday morning because we experience so much every single day. However, there are some things no one… mehr lesen
The beginning of the greatest adventure of our lives
Loud noise, teenagers talking, laughing, reading and sleeping. Some are carrying around their luggage and some are hugging their parents for the last time in the next seven months. These are the first things I see when I come to… mehr lesen
Coming home
It is 12 pm. I am standing in a group of people, KuSis some would say, and we are singing. We are singing our goodbye-song. Singing like we did it so often. Singing while seeing our parents (for the first… mehr lesen
The Story of the Thor Heyerdahl
It´s been now six months. Six months on a journey with 50 people guided by the project Classroom Under Sail. For six months we have been on a traditional sailing vessel, the Thor Heyerdahl. Thor Heyerdahl, a name, that you´ve… mehr lesen
Closet of characters
I know it sounds crazy, but sometimes I forget that I live on board of a sailing ship with fifty other people at the moment. I forget that I didn´t know those guys half a year ago and that in… mehr lesen