June 7, 2011

Today: June 7, 201

Dunkerque, France.

Yesterday we deided to move the boat from the inner harbor of Oostende to the waiting
in the front of the Marina.
By doing so we could get an early start from Oostende expecting that the new crew from
the Ukraine would arrive in time.
Unfortunately however, they suffered from a lot of delays with their flight from Warsaw.
We exchanged a lot of SMS messages and during the evening we understood that they managed to catch the
last train from Brussels to Oostende. The train was due in Oostende around 02.00AM but it finally
arrived 02:30AM with two exhausted Ukrainians. We all had too little sleep that night.

We therefor didn't started as early as we had agreed, but nevertheless we set our sails at 08:00.
Fairly good sailing weather but very cold.

We indeed sailed the whole distance from Oostende to Dunkerque against the SSW wind without
using the motor.
At 16:00 we entered the harbor of Dunkerque where we found a nice berth in the YCMN Marina.

There Andrej shaved his friend Dima completely bold, whch they apparently had agreed before.
So now it looks as if we have two bold ukrainian maffiosi on board....
better keep low profile in our next harbors.

Totmorrow the journey continiou to Boulogne sur Mer.


We will keep you informed.
Cees, Sam, Andrej and Dima.