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Farewell to Rungsted

Sunday the 28. June at 15 hour we said good by to family, friends, neighbors and KDY cruising friends at Lars´s home harbor for 50 years, Rungsted. We put “Flag over top” with the help of Lene E P. Thank you all for gifts and coming to wave us off. It was a lot of fun and we hope  to see many of you aboard Alexandra out there in the world. Thank you Morten for the pictures!

See Mortens photo here

After a couple of days in Helsingør we took a final farewell with the close family on Alexandra. It was off cause difficult for us because we will miss them a lot but look forward to see them in October in Denmark, November in Las Palmas and spend Christmas together in Caribbean.

Getting things on board to finishing several projects like cooling compressors for freezer box, refrigeration box and refrigerator and gear for sailing in warmer climate likedifferent kinds of sun-cover, kayak, wind surfer, was made possible by the great help of our neighbor for 30 years Jens and Lene with there contribution to fill up there car with our gear. Also unloading and transporting the gear to the the end of a bridge were Alexandra was docked!

Also, in the last minute, we received a new EPIRB with our MMSI number coded into it. Thank you Lars B. Next day we took of after Lars had made sure that the HF/MF radio ICOM 710 received from Hans B worked well. In the afternoon we were nicely downwind sailing to Hals in Limfjorden in the north of Jutland were we entered the harbor in the early morning.

 

 

Out on the North Sea over night next stop Brunsbüttel.

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First reef in mainsail, heavy waves and a lot of wind we went for sail to Brunsbüttel in the Kiel canal. Frederik made a nice spaghetti bolognese testing out the support band in the galley. We went into the dock with the cargo ships because the smaller dock was closed. In the harbor we put lid on the 2 fresh water and 2 black water tanks. After that we deserved a meal at the restaurant on the harbor.

First leg Harlingen Monday 15 June

Before leaving Hindeloope a new start-battery was bought at the harbor boat shop and installed. Lars did not trust the old one. Then left after filling up with diesel not knowing that the port tank was filled up and the switch on hand driven. I had to test steering with the rat and so had Frederik and Kristoffer also. In Harlingen we could ad a lot of good dutch food to the fridge and freezer.

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Sailing Alexandra home to Denmark

IMG_5268 IMG_5269 IMG_5270Finally we were back in Hindeloope and on board Alexandra in the evening Friday the 13 of June 2014. The tanks were not closed but had to be open until next Wednesday. We had to clean up a little and of cause a lot of that later on at home. Hans and Mariet arrived on Saturday and Hans helped Lars, Frederik (29) and Kristoffer (26) with the rigging of the mainsail. We tested the gas grill in the evening and had a nice supper together.

The tank renovation project

We have got the first pictures from the tank renovation project at Aluboot in HIndeloopen. We are happy that we are doing this now when we see the pictures. One of the septictanks are really corroded. The project will unfortunately be delayed due to the extent of the corrosion

WE look forward to get Alexandra to Denmark when the job is done.

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