The "Gorch Fock" is there twice. While a sailing ship is making headlines, the other as a floating museum is located in the port of Stralsund.
is On residence not to think today. Although the Gorch Fock with the "kick in the rig lures" - as stated on the sign at the rising of the three-masted barque that lies at the Ballastpier in the port of Stralsund. And further: "No Pain the main mast to the spreaders on Mars, secured with rope and harness tested with expert guidance. . As a reward, there is a certificate, "It says small as well as the postscript:" The residence is located in the winter and during strong wind is not always possible, "
The outside temperature at zero degrees.. The fog, who plays the ship finds expression on the ropes and covers them with slippery frost. Now go into the shrouds would be dangerous. Therefore, the cover can not watch it.
There are currently no candidates for the climbing. At eleven clock on Sunday morning it is still on the wharf. The right time to capture the beauty of this Baltic port in itself: the curved white walls of the Oceaneum, the brick part of the already stylishly renovated port buildings. Dimly be perceived through the mist, the two large churches in the Old Town. To the ship visit to the surprisingly small looking Bark only a visitor has arrived, an elderly gentleman from Augsburg, from Guttenberg country also. "No, no," he fends off the same, "I am not interested in the Gorch Fock because the Defense has trouble with his training ship . I would have seen anyway. As for Guttenberg - something show much about the man if you ask me, "
The Gorch Fock in Stralsund .? Where can say but the news that the training ship of the federal Marine because of the fatal accident a cadet and dubious status of Argentina ordered back on board and was the first end of April in the home port of Kiel is expected? There are two German sailing ship of that name. The training ship from the headlines is the younger sister, a post-war building, the 1958 ran at Blohm & Voss in Hamburg from the stack. In 1933 was at the shipyard, a first Bark in the name Gorch Fock been baptized. A checkered history awaited her - just as two other identical training ships of the navy. The Horst Wessel runs today under the new name Eagle for the U.S. Coast Guard, the former Albert Leo Schlageter stands as Sagres under the command of the Portuguese Navy. The Gorch Fock is named after the writer Johann Wilhelm Kinau, who wrote under the pseudonym of his works.
The barque was sunk in 1944 by the crew in the face of the advancing Soviet army in Strelasund in Stralsund. Three years later the Russians lift the little damaged ship and used it under the new name Tovarishch itself as a training ship. After the collapse of the Soviet Union of the sailors fell to the Ukraine. Back in the nineties, a group of German tall ship fans, who had joined the club Tall-Ship Friends organize, charter trips on the Ukrainian ship. 2003 she bought the run down Tovarishch , they called again in Gorch Fock around and brought them to Stralsund.
watch on deck this morning Ursula Rotkowsky. The Stralsund Erin is doing as part of a 400-euro jobs service on the sailors, they conceded the four € entrance fee for the tour. A rewarding source of income is the "Kick the rig" - 15 € to shell out brave, coming into the shrouds. The lowest platform on the mainmast, one can climb up to the sitting, in twelve and a half meters high. As a challenge it looks not. But one should not be fooled, says Ursula Rotkowsky. From a few meters on the pole see the world quite differently, especially when a little wind go. There are believed to have large mouths halfway be reversed.
The woman knows what she speaks, she was already up. The other day two old ladies had come to an already 70, which had insisted aufzuentern. They wanted the lookout, because her father as a sailor had been sitting there forever. Since trust and Ursula Rotkowsky. "Unpleasant it is, "she says," if you must draw at the end of the platform. For a moment, because it is quite backward. "
The silence of the guard is not on board this morning inconvenient. She got in the house of cards to work up the list of donations last year. financed with entrance fees and donations, the Gorch Fock, but if not flow as soon as larger sums, it looks bad for the ship. The man who knows this only too well, Wulf Marquardt.
The Chairman of the Tall-Ship-club taken in 2003 a mortgage on the house of his wife and thus applied the major part of the purchase price of 300,000 €, of Ukraine in the Ministry of Education had to be transferred. Whether he ever sees his money again, is in the stars. The retired electrical engineer, it is not sufficient that the Gorch Fock lies there as a museum ship. You will sail again. Only if it succeeds, to take the Bark in two annual summer trips with paying passengers on the Baltic Sea, says Marquardt, the ship could even carry 250 passengers, five-hour drive to bring per-day tour € 25,000, makes in two months million gross, he reckons. The sailor needs but only another four million to be roadworthy again. So far
only the outer hull of the ship renewed, inside the Windjammer friends discover ever new legacy of the Soviet era. The wood deck is blunt and absorbs moisture. When the water first durchsuppt, the only permanent guest happy on board: the rust. Deck by deck are volunteers going to replace them with stainless steel plates. Only for the welding work, they let the professionals come from the People's yard. . 'You see, "says Marquardt, allowing the light beam of the flashlight walk," the fresh welds rust again, "
From the Navigator romance, could attract a paying audience on board, can be seen on the ship a little - not only on dim Behelfslicht is: Almost all the internals are removed in the crew's quarters, which once housed 180 cadets, three refer tired hammocks unconvincing to the hardships of the sailor's life.
Only the captain Salon is back on track. The oversized bar, which the Russians had installed, is replaced by a true leather furniture. On the coffee table are sometimes even flowers - for 230 €, the salon can be rented for weddings. The other day a young lucky to even from the far Saarbrücken had arrived. The bride had insisted. She came from Ukraine and knew the Gorch Fock from the days when the ship was the star of a Soviet television soap opera called Purple Sails . Since her name Tovarich, comrade, and money problems did not exist.
Info: Tall-Ship Friends e. V., Tel 03831/666520, www.gorchfock1.de
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