Food, Fuel and more

Ship: Regina Maris
Date: 25th of November 2024
Position: Tenerife
Geographical Position: 28°22.422N 016°15.688W
Etmal: 4nm
Total: 2095,2nm

Today, we received a big food delivery at 11:00 and we spent a lot of time cleaning the food, storing it in the right places and documenting everything.

When we had time, we drew on each other’s skin with a pen we randomly found. For lunch the others from the galley team and I cooked 7kg spaghetti with green pesto.

After that, we were divided into two groups: From 14:00 to 15:00 the first group had to work on the ship and the others had free time. At 15:00 the groups switched, so the other group could have some free time as well.

At 15:00, our fuel for the next few months arrived. We received it along with the Johnny from a big truck. That was cool!

There was the possibility to visit the Alexander von Humboldt 2 in the free time. They are much bigger than us, have an air conditioning system and were freshly built in 2011 and are more like a cruising ship in our opinion.

Our sailing experience on the Reggie is definitely more real than theirs. But the crew was lovely and shout-out to them for the great tours they gave us of their ship.<3

When all food and fuel bunkering was finished and all students were on board again, the Johann Smidt already left the harbour. Minutes later, we got out of the harbor behind them.

All the tall ships that were in the harbour that day (in total five -> our dutch colleagues from the Morgenster, the Portuguese four masted ship Santa Maria Manuela, the German Becks ship Alexander von Humboldt 2 with the Canadian student Programm Class Afloat on board, our friends from the Johnny and ourselves) started sounding the horns for both Ocean College ships to say goodbye.

We answered them with the loudest horn of all of them. 😉

Then we drove out together, side by side with the Johnny and the drone was flying. We were so close to them that we could talk to them and we even danced together. Then the Johnny overtook us but we caught up with them overnight again.

Now we are both sailing headed for the Cape Verde’s and finally leaving Europe for more than four months from now. Our next time back in Europe will be on the Azores, we wish you a nice winter.:)

Bemerkungen:

Johannes/Tilly: Alles Gute Fabio!

Timo: Ich bin gut angekommen! Ablegen war super. 🙂