End of Season

The eventful sailing season 2014 ended on 16 November when Rode Zora was craned out in Wedel/Hamburg. After the adventure of removing her 0.5t mast this was another nerve-tickling event.

Jakob and Tobias can be seen moving Zora around in circles as they wait for the crane. 

Finally,  Zora is learning to fly. She comes up ever so slowly as the crane churns its lowest gear.

The scale on the crane states 15.33t. This includes the crane gear which weighs in at 1.2t. This makes 14.1t for Zora without mast, but full fuel tank which we had just filled up

It's time to clean the hull with high pressure. Jakob and Tobias are working hard. The barnacles of the Baltic have taken a firm hold in some places. The paint if more than 3 years old after all. Considering, things look pretty good

She is as clean as we can get her in a reasonable amount of time and we wait for Sven Nagel with his Unimog to bring her to her winter home in hall 4

There she is in her winter home waiting for a lot of work to be done. The first thing now is to get Mr. Peugeot, our olde Diesel friend out. We believe he has earned retirement... So the next posting will be in memoriam Mr. Peugeot.