- The sun21 crew at the press conference after their arrival in New York (Beat von Scarpatetti, David Senn, Michel Thonney, Martin Vosseler, Mark Wüst, from the left)
- Arrival in New York City
- The mayor of Miami, Manuel A. Diaz, presents the crew the Keys to the City of Miami.
- Arrival at Martinique.
- The sun21 heading to Martinique.
- On the way to the Canary Islands.
- Due to a storm the sun21 sought refuge in the harbour of Casablanca (Morocco).
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Dec 04, 2006: Between Puerto Sherry and Lanzarote
Waiting for good weather during one week - last preparations - departure on a sunny Sunday morning - initiation by the Sea - first encounters.
We wait a whole week for good weather and the wind in our back – time for last preparations. We buy food for two weeks in Chipiona, enough potatoes and onions for a good "Rösti", rice and vegetables for a fine rice pilaf, fresh fruit and vegetable for the first week. On 29 Nov., we navigate the "sun21" to Puerto Sherry, a big yacht harbor surrounded by unfinished luxury buildings – stranded English investments.
A diver replaces the metallic propeller by a modern carbon device. Mark measures the effects on the propulsion system. With joy he realizes: The new propeller is 15 to 20 percent more efficient. On 30 Nov. and 1 Dec., the wind is blowing against us. On 2 Dec., a deep pressure area passes with a lot of rain. Finally, on Sunday morning, 3 Dec., the sun rises into a blue sky. John von Reding from "Television de la Suisse Romande" has accompanied us during the whole week. Now, he and his host Valerie arrive to make a last film of our departure. And off we go – with a loud signal of our horn, with deep emotions, big excitement.
The sea is quite rough, waves into all directions. My autosuggestions of being one with the boat, being a part of the boat help me for just about twenty minutes. And then, my bowels turn upside down, again and again. Beat and I disappear in our cabin until the next morning - a rough initiation by the Sea.
Dolphins visit Mark during the night. In the morning, the sea is much smoother. We see a Finback whale pushing his blow into the air twice. Its anthracite-brownish back is shining in the sun, before it dives again. David takes his first plankton sample for his research. He shows us some small Crustaceans, radiolarians and a bioluminescent algae, a flagellate that can produce light.
During the first 24 hours, we covered a distance of 70 miles (130 km). Now, we are floating at a speed of 3 knots per hour (5 km/h). We chose this slow speed so that the sun charges the batteries for the night.
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Comments
Louis and Jody:
We are watching and love you deeply.
Klaus and Sibylle Warnecke, Bremen:
Merry Christmas, dear Mr. Vosseler, to you and all being on bord of sun 21 wishing good weather conditions for the whole voyage. - We like to remember to your short and exciting speech given to more than 1000 Gesundheitsberater GGB at Lahnstein/Rhein on October 22nd. - We have learned from you, that you walked for 1000s of miles. How do you feel yourself now living on a very small boat for some month without any possibility of walking? I am really interested to your answer. - We very enjoy to read about your happenings with lovable animals accompaning yor catamaran. All the best from Klaus and Sibylle Warnecke, Bremen.