Deutsches Technik Museum

Had an excellent visit to the Deutsches Technik Museum http://www.sdtb.de/English.122.0.html in Berlin recently. Fantastic maritime section, the Roman river barge had to be the star attraction for me, but also this Proa was an excellent find. I'd never seen this sail technology before, so great learning experience, wikipedia link if you want to know more about it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotorsail.

Falcon building is stalled for a week while I go to the UK, however the sailing club is now open and in 2 weeks it will be sailing.

Almost there

The platform is mostly built up now, need to get my trailer converted to carry the wider cat now and get it EU road legal.  Hopefully it passes or it's going back on ebay!

Launching at Easter weekend hopefully.

Unpacked! 2

Unpacked!

Could be the only Falcon in Germany, but then it will spend most of it's time over the border in the Netherlands

It's here!

Right, the adventure has officially begun.  My new boat, Falcon F16 NZL202 has arrived in Germany now I just need to turn it from a bunch of boxes...

Into this:

Hopefully I'll get a chance over the weekend, I've got to assemble the boat in my only just big enough garage, so that means finding somewhere else for the trailer and othe gear in there to go.

Got to convert the trailer to F16 size too.

Wait and see.....

This blog will follow my progress in trying to relearn the art of catamaran racing. I'm currently living as far from the sea as I ever have, so just getting on the water is going to be challenging.

I'll be blogging on the sites, advice and techniques I have found helpful on the way and of course any progress I make.

First Things first though, got to wait for the boat to arrive and learn how blog!