Sailboat from Jamaica to Colombia (May 15-19)
The first day out on the open ocean was really wavy and everyone felt kind of poopy. Edmund was a zombie because he took sea sickness pills.
Linda felt poopy for most of the trip. During one of her night watches our friend J lifted up his arms to the sky and said: “Universe, give us a fish!” 2 seconds later a flying fish flew onto the boat!!!! They threw the fish back into the ocean but the captain was mad because flying fish are supposed to be one of the best tasting fish. A huge wave came crashing over the upper deck on the boat and completely soaked everyone. And not surprisingly… more DOLPHINS!!!!
While arriving to Cartegena we both got strapped into harnesses and took turns being pulled up to the crows nest, 20 meters above the boat. We had to hold onto the mast on the way up to keep from swinging out of control. Edmund and a few others on the boat got sick with a nasty cold. Edmund fought back by eating a clove of garlic each morning, taking lots of vitamin C, cold fx, and washing his sinuses with salt water by snorting it out of a glass (a trick Stefan taught him).
Here is one of the earliest pictures of what is now the Stahlratte (“Steel Rat” in German) boat. Lots of modification have been made since its original construction.
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esaunger
May 29th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
actually the next backpacker-generation didn´t believe the story of JJ and the fish.
But on the last trip he asked for dolphins and a few seconds later a swarm of fish was jumpig along the shoreline. Maybe they were hunted by dolphins…¿