Lennard + Emily + Kati + Arne
| Vessel Name: | IEMANJA |
| Vessel Make/Model: | Roberts 44 |
| Hailing Port: | Hamburg |
| Crew: | Lennard Emily Kati Arne |
| About: | We are a german family living in Nelson / New Zealand. We just bought our new boat in Phuket and are now based in Langkawi / Malaysia. We will start living on board / cruising in mid July 2010. |
| Extra: | the following link will bring you to our videos: www.youtube.com/user/syiemanja Andrea's Atlanik Blog is under: www.dreastoern.blogspot.com |
09 July 2012 | on the Elbe
departed Cuxhaven for Hamburg Citysporthafen
Hi all, a quick update from Brunsbuettel- a - beam. We left Cuxhaven together with "Antje" at 1300 in 25 kn very gusty SW and driving rain - what kind of summer is this? It just stopped rainnig a few minutes ago and we are following Antje who zoomes ahead of us towards Wedel. At he moment [...]
08 July 2012 | Cuxhaven
ETA for Hamburg: Mo 21:30
Hi all, after a sunny warm morning we had a showery front with strong gusts to pass us. At least the wind veered now from SE to SW so we should be able to sail tomorrow the last 55 nm to the city center of Hamburg, the strong 2-4 kn flood current will help us for 6 hours. Our arrival time is still scheduled for 21:30. Our phone numbers here on board are: 0175-1976094 0170-8140365 Andrea and I are sharing the phone with these two numbers, one should work.
07 July 2012 | Cuxhaven
departed Helgoland, arrived Cuxhaven
Hi all, we had a good time at Helgoland:: birthday dinner, Martin's farewell, visit of the "Duehne" (amall island next to Helgoland with beaches and seal colony), drank "Helgolaender Eiergrog" (hot alcoholic beverage with Rum and an eggyolk) and went swimming at the heated seawater [...]
03 July 2012 | Helgoland
arrived in Germany
Hi all, this morning at 1040 we arrived happy and safely at Helgoland. We got a great welcome by Lennard, Emily, Kati, Dorle (sister), Manfred (brother in law), Kerstin (niece), Hanne (niece's daughter) and Nils (niece's son). Then my aunt rang from Hamburg and told me to tune into a cerrtain Hamburg radio station where we heard her greetings and a song played for our arrival and my birthday - how nice!. Manfred organised a special berth alongside the jetty, the sun is shining the whole day and it got rather warm - so so all is good here! AHOI! Arne and the Iemanja crew and welcomers
My encounter with Chagos' sharks
Yesterday Jules, a 7 year old french boy, and I took a mini yellow kayak and wanted to paddle around the island. First we drifted around and then started to paddle, when suddenly a big wave crashed onto our small yellow kayak and then it capsized! We clambered back onto the boat, then suddenly realized that the boat was upside down. We both put in all our strength to turn it over. Finally we managed to turn it over with a bit of help from a wave. Jules said “Emily it's your turn to paddle” So I got in front and began. 1 minute later we saw a shark coming towards us - it was a Black Tip reef shark but we still were pretty scared! It was about 1mtr long and very curious about the strange yellow thing. We rowed as fast as we could and then- oh then Jules lost his hat!!! He jumped in the clear water without thinking and soon came swimming back, not with the hat but yelling “THE SHARK! THE SHARK PASSED BY AND SWISHED ME ON THE HIP!!!” I helped him up, which meant I'd had to sit on the other side and... Splash! We were both in! Jules and I were helpless we just tried to get up and capsized the boat again! Finally we did make it back on the kayak, we both did NOT care that it was upside down again! We paddled until we got to the now soaked hat. We shouted all sorts of words like:
HELP! SHARKS! WE'RE GOING TO DIE! HELP US!
We both rowed to were we could stand when my brother and 2 other french boys came and rescued us. THAT WAS SO CREEPY AND FUNNY!!!!
March 2011, written by Emily M
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