Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As promised, I offer you some sailing shots from our trip last weekend. It was our last trip with this boat. The owner doesn't find time anymore to set sail more than 2 times per year, so each trip is a bit too expensive. It really is a pity, because we had a yearly tradition to do a tour on the Grevelingen with these 4 guys. I guess next year we'll rent a boat... Prior to selling, the owner brought his ship to the wharf to have some repairs done. One of the repairs was getting the deck back in tip top shape: http://tinyurl.com/9vke4 A bit later we left the harbor. An important issue on the water is dehydratation. So it's very important to keep your body fluids on level: http://tinyurl.com/cnqe3 Sometimes we use the autopilot and just enjoy being on the water: http://tinyurl.com/9q4ta But ofcourse, most of the time somebody is at the wheel: http://tinyurl.com/axek2 To get maximum speed, the trim of the sails has to be regulary checked: http://tinyurl.com/bm5x8 Damn, where's the pilot again?: http://tinyurl.com/cdpee That's better: http://tinyurl.com/77bh4 We sailed into very shallow water, and since we some bad weather was arriving, we decided to do this on motor and not under sail: http://tinyurl.com/by5uv In such circumstances, it is important to keep track of the buoys marking the waterway: http://tinyurl.com/boe7m And look up the particularities of the lake in the almanac: http://tinyurl.com/8hlq6 But finally we arrived safe and sound at "Dwars in den Weg", a tiny island just before Brouwershaven. We had the pontoon all for ourselves: http://tinyurl.com/ampqr Except for the true inhabitants of the island: http://tinyurl.com/cme9l This was our compensation for having sweated in those damn waters: http://tinyurl.com/8jfw4 Time for dinner. One of us tried to catch some fish. Despite his concentration without much result: http://tinyurl.com/aejx3 Luckily I cooked a meal that everybody seemed to like: http://tinyurl.com/c39d9 The day after, we had a technical problem with the foresail. The lightest one had to get up to repair it: http://tinyurl.com/bykwe It was rather high: http://tinyurl.com/d8j6x You really need some steel nerves to do repairs up there: http://tinyurl.com/a5koj But finally things got done properly, and we sailed off again. The skipper asked me to take some beauty shots of his ship to help the sale: http://tinyurl.com/cg7ay http://tinyurl.com/9rmlv http://tinyurl.com/brb4p http://tinyurl.com/agzr7 And meanwhile I took 2 beauty shots of our surroundings, too: http://tinyurl.com/93wao http://tinyurl.com/8mct7 Everything with the Leica Digilux 2. Basic PS work in the tradition of Nathan :-) Comments appreciated. Thanks for looking, Philippe