Off we go!

Ship: Regina Maris
Date: 5th of December 2024
Position: Atlantic Ocean
Geographical Position: 17°01.203N 025°20.015W
Etmal: 23nm
Total: 3009nm

Hello everybody!

Last day on land for the next two weeks, probably! Many of us haven’t really realised what is going on. Me also, I can’t get it into my brain, that the next time seeing land will be an island in the Caribbean. Crazy!

After our very delicious breakfast with porridge, bread and today also with yummy French toast, we lifted the anchor in Mindelo and drove to a different island of the Cap Verdes. There, we arrived about right after lunchtime. We reunited with the Johnny. They already drove there yesterday. To make the experience a bit more exciting we decided to not take the dinghi and rather to swim to the island.

We all put our clothes in a dry bag and were ready to swim. It wasn’t too far so luckily, everybody made it. On land we all put on sunscreen, our clothes and shoes.

Since we knew that the last years Ocean College always played soccer against the local people, everybody that wanted to play had to put on the white OC t-shirt. They didn’t know that we were coming that early and wanted to play against them so we had to wait quite a bit till they gathered their soccer team.

Good to know: Ocean College has never won against them ever in the past years. We took that by heart and made clear, that we had to win this game for us and for Ocean College.

Although it was hot and the sun was killing us from the outside we decided to give everything we have. Giving up was not an option. The game didn’t start off that good for us. They first scored one goal and a few minutes after a second one.

We couldn’t let that rest on our shoulders. They played good, but if we played as a team and more balls would actually get to the other teammate we knew, we could do it. Halftime was over and we switched sides.

From there on, we gave all we had. And it paid off. Kaspar scored the first goal. Now it was 2:1 for the others. Not too much time after Maxim scored a second goal from the distance into the top corner. We were now level with them.

A look on the clock said three minutes left. We knew, if we walked out with a tie we were also better than all the Ocean College Generations before us but to win would be even more legendary.

Right before the time was up, Nico scored the 3:2, which gave us the WIN. The first ever Ocean College, that won against the Cap-Verde-Team.

We made history, thanks to the brilliant defense of Maxim and Strate!

Because time was short we had to swim back to the boat, right when the game ended. Back on board, the Johnny and the Reggie lifted the anchor at the same time, we set sail, made some pictures with the drone and set off together to cross the Atlantic Ocean!

And from know on, one off my biggest dreams will start. Crossing the Atlantic Ocean with a Sailing Vessel.

Let the adventure begin!

Grüße:

Timo: Alles Gute zum Geburtstag nachträglich, Mama! Hab‘ euch lieb!!

Sophia: Danke Mama, dass Du mich die Reise machen lässt. 😘 Hab‘ Dich ganz dolle lieb❤️

Balthasar: Happy Birthday nachträglich an Tante Cecy und happy Birthday an Tante Töni, mir geht’s super!! Denk‘ an euch😘

Franz: Ich wünsche euch einen wunderschönen Nikolaus, genießt die Adventszeit! Es fühlt sich echt komisch an, jeden Morgen aufzustehen und daran zu denken, dass meine kleinen Mäuse den Adventskalender öffnen. Hab‘ euch ganz ganz ganz dolle lieb!❤️❤️❤️ Ich freue mich, euch an Weihnachten zu hören! Und ganz vielen Dank fürs Buch😜 und die Briefe!

Felipa: Schönen Nikolaus euch allen! Hab‘ euch lieb und vermisse euch. Beijinhos ❤️❤️

Ella: Olivia mein ❤️. Dankeschön an Omas und Opas, Mama und Papa! Hab‘ euch lieb 🫶

Jana: Hallöchen Leute, ich wünsche euch einen wunderbaren Nikolaus. ❤️Auch ein riesen Dankeschön für die ganzen Briefe, die Arne mitgebracht hat, ich hab mich mega gefreut. Es war richtig toll, von euch zu hören. Noch eine tolle Adventszeit🎄Hab‘ euch lieb!!