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October 2005: Time has come for Aurastel to move. Over
two years she has spent now under her blue tent. But
time has come to shift to a place where she will not
be wedged in for another 7 months on the hard. Her paint,
rudder system, prop, zincs, the Wesmar sonar, seacocks,....,
are all ready. Still it is an exciting moment, when
she starts to move to the sea. The crossbeams under
the sledge moan and groan, when the 90 tons start to
move, inch by inch it she goes towards the sea. |
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Image: Verda Varici |
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October 2005: While she moves away directors clear
away debris... |
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Looks
like a neat paintjob...
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Hundestadt Propeller in place with a new shaft and with
a new stern tube. |
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sludge tank and one zinc anode. |
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loading of the masts. They will be painted and prepared
in D-Marin at Turgutreis. |
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(...)
she says from the very beginning she stood
on your slope, that she dipped her oars
in your water, and carried her owner from there
over so many headstrong breakers,
whether the wind cried from starboard
or larboard, or whether Jupiter struck at the
sheets
on one side and the other (...) |
Catullus
4, The Caique |
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October 2005, 11:30: Only minutes to go for the launching. |
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tender ready to be dragged along. And! At last, we are
on sea. A last glimpse of the Bofor Shipyard. Emergency
equipment on the aft deck. |
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Cape Hüseyin we take the passage inside the shallows...
Local knowledge by Can... |
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last
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16.10.2005
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