Vessel Name: | Tadorna the Shelduck |
Vessel Make/Model: | Etap 32i |
Hailing Port: | Nieuwpoort (Belgium) |
Crew: | Eric & Sylvia |
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Home Page: | https://sites.google.com/site/cvotadorna/ |
Last summer the former crew of Tadorna took a ride on the river Scheldt on board the Waterbus from Kruibeke (5 miles upstream Antwerp) to Lillo-Fort, the turning point of this passenger shuttle near the Dutch border. The fast passenger service calls at different locations both at the right bank (e.g. Antwerp Roads) and the left bank (e.g. the popular beach resort of St. Anneke), so it gives a broad view on the locks, chemical and container terminals and the newest tidal dock, the Deurganckdock, just opposite Lillo-Fort. As her name says, the fast catamaran has the speed of a bus, so you might perhaps miss the relaxed feeling of smooth sailing. Nervertheless we can strongly recommend the trip to all those who have a heart for being on the water (as retired sailors do) and love the Port of Antwerp. (the picture shows the entrance of the drying small yacht harbour of Lillo-Fort)
Encounter off the Belgian coast with the brand new multi-purpose vessel 'SIRIUS' the Flemish Maritime Authority put into service earlier this year. Also thanks to an audit on board this new purchase, Bureau Veritas was able to deliver the ISM-certificate (International Safe Management code for ship management and protection of the environment) to the owner.
Tadorna has been well put ashore and is actually hibernating. She will be soon get overhauled and put into the water again. We're all hoping for a nice season and fair winds. Sea-you on the water.
Thanks to the fair weather of this years' early spring, the annual overhaul after winter storage on land went on very smoothly. So since March 18, Tadorna is back on the water again, all shipshape and ready to sail the Channel and the North Sea for yet another season (she's already waving the flag of the seven seas: bright golden stars above blue water).