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Sat 25/08-2012 Day 248

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Pos: here Loc: Quintero Acc: tent Dist: 33,8 km Start: 8:45 End: 14:20 It was an advanced start! Surely – what else to expect on 3,5 m of swell combined with 15-20 knots of following wind… We started from Cristian’s home early at 7 am, after we managed to pack and load all gear with […]

24Aug

A long working (and waiting) day!

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The kayaks were due to arrive today – 100% certain this time! The arrival time was first 9 am, then it was 9.30 am, and eventually 11.30 am…but finally the cargo plane with our precious load really landed! Mark Peloquin from Bluewater Kayak Works was picking us up with his rental car at Cristians home […]

22Aug

New schedule…

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The visit at the Navy went well, the permit is on the way! Thanks to Capitán Iván Navarrete to get things going! Sorry we were missing a picture… But we had to suffer yesterday a lot of worries if our kayaks would be really on the plane on Thursday as now planned after the first […]

21Aug

No kayaks yet… :-(

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Tomas from Point 65 gave me the tracking link 145-41598115 for the air freight of the kayaks which I was supposed to put in the LAN Cargo website. There I should be able to follow the air freight progress… All good, the tracking progress was nicely visible, and the kayaks were supposed to arrive in Santiago […]

19Aug

Arrival in Chile, preparations…

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I was arrived safely at Santiago airport – and was picked up by Peter, who already flew in three hours earlier! Easy to spot him in the crowd, towering over the dark haired mostly shorter South Americans like a shining light house 🙂 Peter himself got picked up by my trustworthy old hosts Ignacia and […]

17Aug

Back to “work” – Hamburg airport!

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Hamburg airport! All home preparations are done, also as usual some importatnt last minute jobs, but eventually the second leg of my big adventure starts! Honestly, I have to get used again to the daily blogging…well, for me, it’s like back to work! 🙂 I’m obviously not flying with three big pieces of the pretty […]

04Aug

We are leaving home on August 17th!

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The date is set, the tickets are bought: Peter and I will fly from Hamburg to Santiago on August 17th. Unfortunately Peter has to take a flight about three hours earlier than my own return flight from Santiago. But we will have enough time to spend together the next four month – on and off […]

04Aug

My new Hilleberg Tent: The Keron 3!

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You think why do I need a 3-person tent? You may have read it somewhere already between the lines or have heard me talking about that option – I’ll be paddling the next four months together with my Danish partner Peter Unold! We made that decision to form a team also now on the water […]

04Aug

My new “Freya” kayaks ready to ship from China to Chile!

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Last week I was in China for the second time this year – now the “Freya” went into production, and I could pick the two kayaks I’d be using myself for the next leg of my trip. It was quite exciting to see how my prototype changes and details had been eventually realized on the […]