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Still waiting.. We did tour around Gran Canaria with Lea and Willem, the Dutch people the welder is still working on.. we visited the 'crater' in the misty top and some higher (2000m..) and the on the other side sun was shining, we lunched at Morgan and the saw the steep cliffs on the west side. It is a spectacular landscape here and due to the high mountain the small island has all climates, we in the north have bad weather at the moment..           Above green and red layers in the rock.. 

11/6 Nothing happening, waiting for welder to have time. When we went a shore with the Condor he was supposed to have time..Now we're just waisting money standing ashore sadly. We painted the woodwork around the cockpit and found some shit we need in the mast and for the cooker..

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Sailing the Laser was with hardly any wind, skipped last day..

5/11 Sinterklaas not known here.. Have fun there anyhow..     Sailing 12-14 knots, oh we wish, it was towing out, waiting, probably an early start of me in the end and then at the last upper mark the races were cancelled because of wind shift and no wind at all any more... and towed back in. Tomorrow more of that shit. Perfect dinner afterwards by the way, nice organization, since I entered yesterday and no entrance fee..       Luc sailed at 1800..

Welder has time next week.. so we wait. We is now with Pim.. so I have much needed help on board. Luc van Poelje is leaving tomorrow for St Maarten now with Mathias (Den), Chris (Aus) and Arthur (Fr) (Dog stays here) so good luck to them

I entered for Laser races at ... Real Club Náutico de Gran Canaria ... (click on the right picture bottom right at IMPORTANT EVENTS and there also results will be ).. I start at 1100 tomorrow, 3 races a day, 4 days long. It is over an hour to the sailing course so up at 7 or so to get something to eat and put stickers on boat etc. I sailed a little bit to day, and did some repairs, but light winds I expect, and although I've lost some weight u should not expect me at the front of the fleet.. I'll make some pictures of course.. 

I sailed to SailMike » Blog and spoke to him, lots of people helping him, he wants to test systems for 24 hours now and then leave Saturday or so   

3/12 Pieter Schoenmakers (in front of mast) leaving at 0830 for St Maarten

OK back on shore, and we even see where the water goes in/out.. We looked at that spot in Cascais and I thought the welder had covered that as well, maybe to much sanded of later..

  I even had to take the wind mill down, otherwise the crane could not pass, the Laser is of and ready to sail the Olympic week here Friday..

   The next pictures are from the Cascais welding action.. It shows the crack and the welding..

So, what to do, take everything of, weld an extra plate on it to be on the safe side and weld the crack on the inside.. How to get water out, the skeg sounds hollow. Somebody else (Wiebe Mulder, he is crossing now with Groeneveld on a Halberg Grassie 46) told me that such spaces can be filled with oil, preferably like light  hydraulic oil.. 

1/12 The unfortunately 16 year old Mike SailMike - Mike Perham - World Challenge coming in with auto pilot problems, he tries to be the youngest  solo around the world and also had to stop a week ago in Cascais with the same problems. (read his blog on his site) Pietser Schoenmakers and crew.. Yellowdrama IV - Skipper-Crew Blake and Clarissa Richter  Yellowdrama IV - Arrival in Gran Canaria etc all pictures: http://picasaweb.google.nl/HandeBruynKops/KeelProblems# Top view front side keel just in front of mast support, below shows the diesel tank under the engine when it was out this summer..

  needs more attention. Kotterfok val runs through here under a strange angle starting 40cm above the stay along which the kotterfok is mounted on..

more of past events and older see RECENT page  like this 'picture of the year' (so far)  

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