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September 14, 2005
Leaving Europe behind
Saturday 10.09.
We got up early in order to leave in time from Rhodes. Heiner and Leo bought for the next days on sea all the bread the store had to sell. After having Breakfast togehter Sunny and Klitos from Greenpeace Greece came by once more to get last things organized. We got the ship ready but leaving the habour wasn't as easy as we thought. Our ancor got hooked up with a really big ancor chain on the ground of the harbour. It was hard to pull up our ancour togehter with this huge chain that didn't belong to any of the other ships around nor did it seem to serve any other reasonalbe purpose only that it was impossible to get it off our own chain. Greg had to jump in and tie a rope around it so we could get them seperated from each other. Everybody behind us had to wait because we were bloking the habour right in the middel.
Once again it was catalog weather in the Mediteranian, the coulor of the water is really amazing. Outside the habour it was quite windy with waves and a breeze from astern. The silence after putting off the engine and going sailing is really really nice.
Quickly everybody is donig the last calls and checking the internet, as we don't know if we are going to have network within the next six days.
Heiner calls the watches for the next days on sea, always three people for four ours, two times a day.
We are sailing along the Turkish Riviera, but we don't see too much of the coast line and too much doesn't happen within the next hours: the sea is impressivly blue, Christiane and Leo are cooking a fine dinner and we are just letting our views flow.
Dorothea
Posted by Hussein at September 14, 2005 3:43 PM