Back to stavanger and to Tananger

01-07-2010


Today we go back to Stavanger again. The Glatmat festival is over so there is enough berthing place available.
After stavanger we will go to Tananger where we will leave as soon as the weather is fine for the journey back south .

And the weather is fine now!On sunday the sun already came through a few times and the forecasts are good.
We were back in the boreviken marina.
Of course we reported already about stavanger but there is a special reason that we do again.
We just arrived when a very special yacht moored just next to the marina.
It looks like a warship but its a bit shiny for that. The only thing you can see is the name "Skat" and the homeland Cayman Islands.


A bilionaires yacht next to YELLOWDREAM!


Even the number looks like a warships number but is the serial number from the shipyard "Lürssen" in Bremen who,by the way, mainly builts navy ships !

I started looking for information in the internet and found that the owner is a Charles Simonyi ( age 61) who was a to microsoft man until 2002 and now has his own software company. He also was two times at the ISS space station! So its really a special person.
The yacht is 71 meters long and is one of the 10 biggest megayachts on the world.
E.g.the diesel tanks are 250000 liters! Once filling up equals a nice 12 meter sailing yacht!

But enough of mega thinking.
Sunday we went on to tananger , a short hop , to prepare for the trip back to egersund on tuesday. The weather has improved miraculously and the sun is all over a blue sky. And whats even better , the forecasts are good also.
Tananger is not a very attrative town but has a nice guest harbour and good facilities.
Tomorrow we will make the trip back to Egersund.