October 27 2008: Java Sea, Indonesia - Greenpeace Esperanza Expedition (sitios de interés)

Messing about in boats

From our blog:

Learning how to handle the boats is essential for the smooth running of the ship, and when the Esperanza is anchored out in a harbour or at sea, they’re often used to ferry people to shore and without them we’d be rather cut off when we’re not docked.

I was a bit naïve to think that boat training just involved driving them; of course, we have to get them in the water first and under the watchful eye of Sabrine the boat engineer, we spent several hours practising that before we even got close to getting wet.

Sabine and Neils take the African Queen for a spin
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