Left Kiel, the german Rivera wich is a chapter it self not beeing posted on this blog. When I was going on my shift at 03.00 I just went in the front to get a bottle water, outside there were windy and rainded, i just looke dto my right ant the whole front toilette were fille dup of water, I called for Dave and we drained it just to realise that it were water all under the floor in the boat. First theroery were that someone had been sloppy and not turnet the seataps of but that wasnt it. 50 buckets and about 300 litre of water and 2,.5 hours. Dave and Benny went back to sleep, giles up in deck and me I sat down to watch the move Casino, half way in I stepped in lots of water and the procedure started all overa agin, thsi time less water but still about 20- 25 buckets.
a rought night, couldnt sort out where the probelm were, couldnt find the reasion for water keep on comming in, thought it were to be a crack in the keel. As we didnt know how bad it was, and if oit could escalate froma small crack to a huge on on the way to england, and as there were heavy weather expecting on the northern sea a decision were made that we were to go in to Holland and have th baot lifted.
Yesterday night we sailed in to a marine base, after having emptied another 7-8 buckets in smooth weather,at he moment of writing the boat are lifted at teh jachtwerf Den Helder, but we still dont know what caused the water comming in. All we could find were a scratch where the keel meets the boat so that is now fixed with a kind of rubberglue, a temporary action, but how the water coame in we still dont know.
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