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Yesterday we docked at safely in the harbor. It’s a harbor with very high walls and several basins going around several corners to reduce the swell.<\/p>\n
The last part of the approach was actually a tough bumpy ride because we had to sail against the waves at a certain angle to make it to Hachijoshima. The wind turned nicely as forecasted but the waves don’t turn so fast. For the final 2-3 miles part to the harbor, the wind turned a bit too fast and blew around the dead volcano in the south of the island and across the flat part in the middle of the island and made a very choppy sea.<\/p>\n
Docking was a bit tricky because the wind suddenly blew on her from behind. I had to abandon the first attempt to dock because the wind became too strong. With going towards the wall backwards and a stern line to a mooring ring at the wall, I could use the wind to turn MaRe smoothly towards the wall.<\/p>\n
For this maneuver, group of Japanese men from a research vessel gave us a hand with the lines. Thanks guys for this.<\/p>\n
After we were docked, it looked like MaRe is moving a bit much due to the wind we got from astern. But, when the wind was down, I saw that a bit of swell is still in the basin we are docked and this moves MaRe.<\/p>\n
A Japanese yacht in the next basin left yesterday at 1800 and we will take the chance and move MaRe into the next basin today.<\/p>\n
We also had already a first visitor on board. A lady, who was curious about MaRe came closer and took pictures. So we invited her on board for a cup of tea. We had a nice exchange of information.<\/p>\n
Now, we know already about locations of supermarkets and a special sushi restaurant, which makes sushi of marinated raw fish, which is said to be special. I indeed, I don’t recall having ever eaten such sushi.<\/p>\n
As she is also fishing, she gave Tobi some special hooks. I’m curious about what he will catch with them.<\/p>\n
In the afternoon Tobi went into his cabin for a short nap until “next Sunday”.<\/p>\n
After a longer conversation with Shigeo about the next leg I too took a shower and went to bed for a nap until dinner. I didn’t sleep much the last days. Only Shigeo was awake because he got enough sleep before.<\/p>\n
So for dinner Shigeo made yakisoba, a very Japanese style of fried noodles with vegetables and a bit of pork. It just was wonderful that to get such a delicious dish again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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