Monday, September 16, 2024
Daycruise on Anny von Hamburg
Monday, July 08, 2024
Anny von Hamburg refit
In 2023 my friends and colleagues, Captains Jan Rautawaara & Juha Pokka managed to procure another old lady as a project for the future. It was s/y "Anny von Hamburg", a 29m historic three-masted schooner built in Germany.
Saturday, June 01, 2024
Anny von Hamburg history
Anny von Hamburg is a historic three-masted schooner, originally built in 1914 by Conrad Lühring at Hammelwarden yard in Germany. Initially named "Anny," the vessel was designed as a cargo ship. Throughout her extensive history, she has undergone several name changes and transformations, reflecting her diverse roles from cargo schooner to cadet training ship to passenger sailing vessel.
Wednesday, May 01, 2024
Kalizma history
I was doing a post of my experience on Kalizma and included a history section in it but discovered that there is quite a bit of it on the net so I separated it here and added to it, enjoy:
Wednesday, April 03, 2024
Realdo
Had the chance to walk around in another quaint small village pretty high up in the Ligurian mountains. The village was pretty well maintained albeit the restaurant was closed for the day. Water was running everywhere and the way of old was still left to be seen with a rubbish chute down the mountain where it ended maybe 50m or more down below on the slope. Only met 2 residents and I assume another 2 tourists so it was very quiet. The two residents were avid mountain bikers and said the worldchampion had been about recently.
Triora
Whilst venturing up the valley we stopped in the witch museum. The village rides hard on the witch heritage (that apparently is based on 3 girls from neigbouring Glori), and they celebrate all the pagan highlights like samhain etc. The shops sport all kind of sorcery trinkets and would well fit into a Harry Potter backdrop.
Sunday, March 31, 2024
Pieve di Teco
This day I went for a Sunday outing to Pieve di Teco in the hopes of seeing the antique market. We drove there at first via the coast through Imperia and up the valley.
Unfortunately it was the wrong Sunday but still there were a few antique dealers opening their shops. So each of us a got something and we also enjoyed ourselves with coffee and a sweet bread. I also bought myself an old floozy magazine (see below in pics) from 1965 that I put under my coffee table.
Pieve di Teco was in her heyday famous for making shoes and indeed there still were shops selling hiking boots but they were not made there. Only local services was shoe repairs.
Walking off the main street to the back of Pieve di Teco along the river showed some quaint buildings in the same style of the area. Then we returned over the mountain and via Carpasio, very good views along the way.
Saturday, March 30, 2024
Glori
Went for a walk in the village of Glori, this time the weather was a bit uncertain so didn't walk over the mountain.
This village as I understand was close to deserted but has gotten a new lease of life after young people moved into it.
In the medieval times it gained notoriety of having three witches in there and they were taken to Triora where they were burned on the stake(?) by the inquisition after their trials.
However, on this visit I didn't come across any sorcery. The weather a stated was a bit overcast so all pictures as you can see looks to be from a Black Sabbath album cover.
Monday, February 19, 2024
Cartagena
Friday, January 05, 2024
Vacation in Philippines p2
As we had returned from Malaysia the traffic and people got really heave so were kind of confined to Calatagan and only scootered around to beaches etc.
Saturday, December 16, 2023
Trip to Malaysia
Sunday, December 10, 2023
Sunday, December 03, 2023
Monday, October 16, 2023
M/t Tobias - the greatest tanker in the world
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
Seafaring culture
Friday, August 25, 2023
Delivery Djibouti to Cyprus
Having been awhile at home I was contacted by my ex Ch Mate to do a short delivery of m/y Kalizma from Djibouti to Turkey and as I thought I have time I agreed on it readily and as I had been on her several years ago, last time back in 2012, I knew the yacht and her flaws. She had since 2012 been refitted and undergone survey to become a commercial yacht under Cook Island and successfully chartered in Indian Ocean the past years.
Said and done I received my flight tickets a few weeks later after the initial contact and flew down to Djibouti via Istanbul. Arrived more or less on time and exited the plane to go through the formalities I got the 1st indications of being in Africa.
Had to shell out bribes to get my arrival stamp, of course no receipt was given but got the stamp. Same was for the other seafarers behind me in same line, totally open and accepted. At the Customs I was made to open the bag and it was rooted around in, luckily nothing illegal was found and I could continue out of the terminal and find my ride.
Tuesday, August 01, 2023
Monday, July 17, 2023
Thursday, June 01, 2023
Sail training ship Fennia
Having visited Falklands I came over the information by accident in a pub that a Finnish sailing vessel, FENNIA, had in early 1900's limped into Port Stanley jury rigged after having been partly demasted in a severe storm.
Friday, May 19, 2023
Falklands Islands
Never having visited Falklands before it was an exciting prospect having only wondered about it as a kid watching the World chart on top of my bed that was gifted by my uncle. It used to be my pastime to look at funny foreign names on foreign continents before falling asleep. Well, now looking at Falklands map closer it was all English names interspersed with an occasional Spanish name.
Saturday, April 15, 2023
South Atlantic sojourn
As we had left Tristan da Cunha we set course for South Georgia with an aim to go do some PR for the locals there as well as to see the grave of Ernest Shackleton.
Saturday, April 08, 2023
Captain Arthur A Soderlund
Friday, April 07, 2023
Tristan da Cunha
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
Seafaring life
This article was originally published by the Finnish seamen's mission in Finnish, below is a translation of it: