The eagle has landed. Tuuli is finally back on Vlieland and also ready to take off later on this week. It looks like our destination is going to be the Elbe (Brunsbüttel & Currywurst), but you never know. With Helgoland and even Thyboron still in mind we’ll see where the wind will bring us.
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Although we’re really not that far away from the marina in Makkum, we are finally on our way. One night anchoring near the ‘Lorentz locks’ before we move on tomorrow. The only trouble i had so far was finding some matching music, had some comments about that lately 😉 Last but not least i found this beautiful golden oldie!
And it is Ronnie's fault, as usual. We had to celebrate Ron's last evening in the marina before we (Leonie & me) raise anchor at the end of the week. And i told him several times, easy on this stuff, it isn't lemonade. But he never listens. Never ...
Actually the old fridge was still ok but I just didn’t trusted it anymore. And we hated piling up the food, because you always need stuff from underneath. A nice extra is the little freeze compartment and probably this Dometic CRX80 (see picture) is quite a bit more energy efficient. We’ll see. Today i’m going to fasten the unit and fix the DC 12v connection. I’ll let you know what still went wrong last minute.
Update: So you buy a fridge and a special frame to make it look nice. Then you find out that a few of the pre-drilled holes do not match with each other and you can’t really fix that easily. It’s in now but just a bit crooked at the bottom. Man I’m pissed.
We said goodbye to our 16 year old liferaft and bought a brand new one. Big enough for four persons, so it should be fine for me and Leonie. Not big enough for the clamp but i made some adjustments and now it still doesn’t fit the way I would like to. Classic craftmanship ;). I’m going to think about it tonight and see what comes tomorrow.
No I’m not playing hide and seek alone on board. Although it is a perfect spot. It’s our storage locker on port side. Normally you’ll see fenders, ropes and stuff like that in it, but not in Tuuli’s. I like to keep it dry, clean and organized.
We’ve got here the hydraulic pump with the operation system, adjusted with double relay’s per button, powered by two lithium batteries connected in 24v. The hydraulic system is for handling the sails as well as two of the winches. The ventilating-system from the engine room is going through here, as well as the second waterlock for the exhaust. Then we have one of the two manually operated bilge pumps here and outgoing hoses for both the electrical pumps. There’s an inlet hose for the big (750 liter) fuel tank underneath which we don’t use anymore. The 350 liter tank on the starboard side is enough for us to travel at least 300 nautical miles under engine. Finally there’s enough space left for our little foldable bikes.
Did i forget something or somebody?
