Before I get the Lazybag back from the repair, I need to get some new lines so I borrow one of the bikes at the marina. The chandlery is located in the other marina and I decide to go up the hill on the main street that turned out to be a long climb before I can roll down to the Moulin Blanc Marina. Time for lunch and of course, there is a nice guy at restaurant L’Admiral serving irresistible Moules Roquefort J Next to the marina is the Oceanopolis, a very ambitious ocean exhibit that took some hours to walk through.

My bike

The Moulin Blanc Marina

Moules Roquefort, Again.

Oceanopolis

Halfway home, a heavy rain started to fall. One of the nice warm summer rains so I did not mind. But the heavy chandlery paper bag did so all of a sudden the stuff was spread over the road. I put the small stuff in the pockets and tried to wind the paper around the other stuff and carry it like a baby biking back. As I got back, the sailmaker had completed the work on the Lazybag but he had made “some improvements” that sadly would not work with my rig. I asked him to redo it the way I wanted and he promised me the bag early next morning. I go back to the boat and fix some other things.

The remnants of a paper bag wrapped around boat parts.

As I am in the middle of cleaning the teak parts, the guys at the Polish schooner Kapitan Borchardt next to me ask me over for dinner. This became a very funny evening with the international crew from Spain, France, Poland and Sweden. The ship has a long history – built 1918 as a Dutch cargo vessel, sold to Germany and during the war she was stationed in Gdansk as a training ship. Sold back to Netherlands after the war and bought by Swedes 1953 as a cargo ship before returned to Netherlands. From 1989 to 2011 it sailed as a cruise vessel in Stockholm under the name Najaden before she was sold to Poland.

Kapitan Borchardt

Me and the crew at the dinner table