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Törn 0925 | DWD-Törn
Westlich Ventspils

Position 57° 27,1 N|021°17,6 E
Kurs, Speed 267 | kn
Etmal 311nm
Wind SSW – 3bft
Luftdruck 1010 hpa
Bedeckung 4/8
Temp (L/W) 17°C, 14°C

Hello (from one of the Irish who has found their way onboard this German ship),
I hope your morning started as well as ours with the cultural icon of “Baby Bel“ (if you listen hard enough your guaranteed to hear someone humming it). After this delightful wake up the gears began to move within the ship as we prepared to leave Ventspils after our 2 night stay. It was 8 o´clock when we began to leave and by 9 sharp we were out in the open water with all appropriate sails set (unfortunetly not the best and most beautiful sail on the ship the t’gallant stay sail or as we say on the Roald „Bramstagsegel“). While all this hustle and bustle was occuring on the deck there was as always a whole other world of work happening in the galley, and for that I will hand you over.

Great of you to join us in the galley for our galley duty today, while the rest of the crew got to enjoy a wonderful lie in until 6:30 and a questionable wake up, us lucky few had been hard at work since 5:45. As always it began with the ritual of cutting fruit, baking breadrolls and making coffee. Thankfully these early mornings can be made beareable and even boardering enjoyable with the help of a few good chats and a good dj which is “important and correct“. Some of the “fan favorites“ this morning were: „Gute Laune“, „Fünf kleine Fische“ but also „American pie“ and „Hey There Delilah“.

Fueled by this great breakfast and the wonderful feeling of being once again back sailing we didn’t slow down with the activity on deck even after setting the sails. It was straight into man over board training. With this we began with an initial chat around the theory and the logic behind what happens, when, where, why, and also by whom. This allowed for many of the trainees to learn and even more importantly for everyone else to brush up and reaffirm the key details of this essential procedure. Once the theory was done we moved into the practical side, for this we were informed it was going to be in 2 parts. The first part of this was a ¾‘s dry run today to help hammer out the details of peoples positions and roles within the sequence of events, including but definetlely not limited to bracing the sails (cross braced to try reduce speed), launching the dinghy, bringing medical gear to the deck and more. Overall, it went pretty well but as always there is room for improvements with some hopefully helpful learnings. Luckily we will not have to wait long to put these learnings into practice as the second part of the plan is to run a full drill tommorow. After all this work and learning we had worked up an appetite, we had nothing to worry about however as the galley crew had continued there great work and we were in safe hands.

While all this commotion on the deck continued we didn’t stop in the galley, we made a wonderful cake. We used our creativity, took a solid foundation out of our cook book and made it our own by adding fruits, we found in the „Dosenlast“. And what should I say, that cake hit the spot. Almost as good as the lunch, we prepared for our hungry crew. Thanks to Kilian, who had the idea to make a lasagne. The others may think, this lunch and cake were made in heaven, but no. We, the morning galley crew & Jens are the chefs.

To see out our day normal order resumed with us slipping back into the familiar rythm of the watches. With a hopeful outlook of a good couple of days of sailing ahead and no doubt thanks to future galley crews food that won’t disappoint. We have a lot to look forward to, and I hope you at home will look forward to hearing all about it from us.