Gunvør XL

18.05.2013
GUNVØR has left St. Thomas and is being steamed across the Atlantic.

17.05.2013
GUNVØR has been loaded onto MV Fagelgracht 3 days late. Interesting to hear when they tell us the new date of arrival in Southampton.

14.05.2013
Made it home safely. Used the 8 hour layover in Miami to rent a Mercedes Cabriolet and cruise up from Miami Beach to Fort Lauderdale. GUNVØR supposedly will be loaded tonight. We wil be following her progress on Yellowbrick.

13.05.2013
Left GUNVØR today. 2 new logbooks online with pictures.

12.05.2013
It feels soooo good to throw things away. Food, gear, used up tools etc.. The tanks are empty, GUNVØR rides as high out of the water as she has not done since leaving Haderslev in 2010. We are looking forward to the last sail across the North Sea, but even more we are looking forward to completely emptying her out and getting her into super shape again. The final hurrah was a last rum punch and dinner at the nicest restaurant on St. Thomas. We spent the evening reminiscing about the amazing, really 4 years, we have had. Thank you all so much for what you have contributed. Everybody's name was mentioned at least once tonight.

11.5.2013
Spent most of the morning giving unnecessary advice to 60 ft catamaran ViIVo (USA). The two couples on board (to be joined by 2 more crew) are signed up to sail the WARC in January 2014 together with our friends from SY Koko (Norway) and SY Clementina (Hamburg). They graciously claimed it was very interesting to get the full dose of Karsten's list. They did look a bit shocked when Karsten pointed out that almost no crew made it together all the way round. They are very nice and we believe very organised, so we hope they will be the exception. It will be fun to follow our firiends around the world and experience it all vicariously again without getting wet. No envy, we are very much looking forward to going home on Monday. Visited a XC 50 that is being shipped as well. We still like the X-55 better, but if they made an XC-55......

10.5.2013
Today it was finally possible to play the Mahogany Run golf course, where Clinton & Obama have also played. Especially the holes by the ocean, playing over water, are spectacular. It certainly was worth taking a rain check for. After lunch Sheila and I took advantage of there being no cruise ships on the island today. The people in the stores were much friendlier and had lots of time. With prices similar to Germany, but without VAT we got some good bargains. A thunder storm in the evening made it really cozy to watch a movie, just the 2 of us.

9.5.2013
Karsten had to take a rain check on the golf as it was pouring cats & dogs. At least this kept Sheila inside and she could finish one of her 3 remaining long blogs. (to be posted today) Also we could watch movies without feeling guilty. We always love a rainy day now and again so we can be a little lazy and not have to tour or otherwise be active.