Selim's Logbook
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by Selim E. on Wed, 30th, May 2018

Irgendwann kommt jeder Skipper zu der Frage, ob er eine Skipperhaftpflichtversicherung abschließen soll. Auch ich kam vor einigen Jahren zu dieser Frage, weil auch unter Kollegen viel darüber diskutiert wurde. Ich hab dann auch eine Skipperhaftpflichtversicherung abgeschlossen. Dennoch hab ich mich vorher grundlegend informiert. Das Wichtigste daraus in Kürze. .
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by Selim E. on Sun, 20th, May 2018

First time I visited Lake Constance which partly is located in Austria. It is huge and it has some characteristics in common with sea, e.g. varying water level. .
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by Selim E. on Sat, 5th, May 2018

Our flight back to Vienna is in the afternoon. So we take the chance to visit Dubrovnik. We take the bus which directly brings us from the marina to the city center. The often lamented tourist overflow is real, even at this time of the year. .
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by Selim E. on Fri, 4th, May 2018

I woke up early and it seemed as if I was the first to be awake in the whole beach. I did a walk around the beach and took some garbage bags with me. I collected a lot of plastic garbage, which locals did not care for, and deposited them in the garbage bins. .
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by Selim E. on Thu, 3rd, May 2018

Due to rain forecasted we decide to spend a day in Kobas and visit Ston, a small town with an impressive fortress and a unique wall. The wall surrounded the town but also connects Ston with Mali (small) Ston on the other side of the peninsula. These two towns had to be strategically and commercially important in the old times as the wall is quite long and winds up a steep hill. The main business used to be salt prduction. The salinas are still in operation and you may buy original salt from Ston in some shops. Our host from Kobas told us that Mali Ston is also famous for its oyster farms and strawberry production. .
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by Selim E. on Wed, 2nd, May 2018

The local maritime report and radio issued a storm warning for Dubrovnik area. Windy app says the field of low pressure stays where it is and a maximum of 15knots of wind is to expect. We finally decided to depart from Okuklje and see what is going on in the open sea. Therefore we headed towards the south coast of Mljet. Carefully we listen channel 16. Repeatedly a storm warning is issued for the area. Around midday we experienced a sudden increase in wind force up to 20 knots and decided to reef sails and head back to Okuklje. .
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by Selim E. on Tue, 1st, May 2018

During last days we have watched weather reports intensively as a low pressure field is expected to approach from southwest, moving towards Sicily. Weather forecasts predicted strong southeasterly winds for Wednesday afternoon and Thursday in our area reaching 30-40 knots on Thursday. So we had to skip our original plan to go to Lastovo island. Instead we headed back to Mljet. .
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