Building and sailing the Journeyman 60
2006 – 2014
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Moving around the Frisian Islands with a deep draft sailing yacht is interesting. The waters are very shallow, the tidal currents are powerful and the bottom is sand. Sand that moves around. A lot. Even this small harbour has a…
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Leaving Helgoland
I was at Helgoland 10 years ago. At that time the island was a tax-free haven, created to make the it attractive to tourists. The place basically felt like one gigantic duty-free shop in the middle of the North…
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Pretty clean canal!
So we’re in the canal. Previous times I have been here the lock masters have been really grumpy people, giving the impression that us sailing yacht people are a nuiscance they would rather not have. But this time the lock…
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Entering German Territory
…so in order to conform to “Deutsche Ordnung” we have hoisted the Swedish flag ;-) (and this entry is also the first test of the satellite blogging hookup!) Tomorrow we do the Kiel Canal. Let’s see what the water…
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Friction, actions, reaction.
Yeah, OK, we’re on our way. But as what seems to be the norm in this project, not without friction. One of the things that caused a bit of friction before we left Stockholm was the material for the keel…
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Sunny breakfast. Water: 12.89° pH: 8.05. We’re on our way.
…but some of our expected crew failed to show up, so we’re pretty shorthanded for the coming two months. If you have time on your hands and like to join, you are welcome to do so (without fees). The schedule…
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Good shoot at the sail-away/baptising party!
Everything went well at the sail away party, and we had lots of fun! Thanks to all of you who showed up! Below: Gabriel Heyman discusses welding quality with Mark Muru, manager of Alunaut where the Journeyman was built. I…
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Invitation to join our “Sail Away Event”
After over seven years of design work, over two years of building, 5 tons of aluminium, 1.15 km rope and 2 km electric cables, 3500 details and 600 drawings, plus 2 000 Nm of test sailing, it is …. ……
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Departure preparations in full swing
We are still shooting for departure from Stockholm around September 15. Lots of work still to do on the boat, but things are looking OK so far. Today we did Man Overboard exercises with the crew that will join from…
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Nice walkthrough video at blur.se
Peter of blur.se created a really nice walk-through video of the boat when we were in Gothenburg. I suggest you visit his site to see it!
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