01-01-2022, 08:51 PM
(01-01-2022, 04:20 PM)thomil Wrote: I actually just checked out the German Navy's website and apparently, she's in Santa Cruz awaiting her first load of cadets following being recommissioned after her refit. The class is supposed to board on January 3rd and the ship is slated to leave on her training cruise in Mid-January after an initial work-up period for those new cadets. She's expected back in Germany in late March.'late March' ...clearly whoever runs the ship undterstands lifes priorities well
Does this mean that the poor shmuck who stands guard on the gang plank isnt a cadet ?
I wonder what he got up to that annoyed his boss so much ?
Perhaps its the cook because he ran out of stroopenwafel ?
Found myself down at the port again today....and what has rocked up but another German sail ship (only this time it looks like a privateer )
very nice....................bbbbuuuuttt...........it looked to be awash with (teens/twenties?) 'finding themselves' ( drinking pils and discovering the guitar was not their strong poiint )
A couple of rather exhausted middle agers were hard at work, dumping rubbish, getting supplies that sort of thing. Struck me that the young ones would 'find themselves' PDQ if they were allocated a few tasks.
Anyway, its all good news for the Lidl branch a few hundred meters away when it opens ( most shops dont open Sundays dawg approves but think Lidl ( like Carrefour ) do.
@thomil , Any indication if the German navy are prepared to tolerate visitors ? If so a list of questions would be welcome