[Leica] Sailing

[Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)]

Phillipe:

A nice set of photographs, I enjoyed it very much.

No lighthouses over there?

Jim


Philippe Orlent wrote:

> 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
>