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Preparations
for the Big Round |
070813 |
Crew, Communications, Money Logistics, Defense |
|
My
head illegal? |
070624 |
Applying for a new Dutch passport: my head illegal according to The New Dutch Passport Photo Model Matrix?
A cliff hanging story. |
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Doing nothing
Part II |
070617 |
New wisdoms: moderately spice your doing nothing with some color
movement on your retina, joy and irritation |
|
Commander on Safari |
070427 |
Egypt, Netherlands, Southern France, Turkey |
|
Philemon |
070221 |
Deputy Captain, Saa Moja |
|
Dhow Repairs |
061227 |
In love with a tree |
|
Christmas |
061225 |
Rain, vomiting, fever, breaking dhow parts, cancellations and
the difference between Coke and Pepsi |
|
A Summary
Guide To Banda Island |
061203 |
With maps and recommended strolls |
|
Banda
revisited |
061202 |
Second visit to Banda (First) |
Fighting Shit |
061020 |
Some improvements
of the dhow
deck tarpaulin, "Baafu Mzungu", Steering deck roof, solar panel
capacity, electric bailing, waterproof storage, deck stiffening, new GPS |
|
Doi |
061011 |
Our boat boy, my Kiswahili teacher |
|
Grandfather |
061002 |
My father's visit |
|
Sese Islands |
060918 |
First visit to Sese archipelago Island Banda: dhow meets dhow
|
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Guests! |
060915 |
Our very first guests
|
|
Depression Battle |
060915 |
Down and up again at 0o24'37.7"N 33o11'31.7E 1140m
|
|
Test Trip
Part 2 |
060622 |
Honesty requires
a les flattering evening later update of this trip
|
|
Test Trip |
060621 |
Sounds
and pictures straight from here and now Lake Victoria. |
|
Tanzanian Reflections |
060613 |
Killing the
BPP
|
|
Doi Arrives |
060608 |
|
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They Do Not Even Know How to Steal |
060530 |
How They Do In Their Specialty
|
|
Nile Source Life |
060529 |
You Are Not Alone! |
|
The Dhow |
060522 |
Technical Data
In Final State
|
|
Closing The Deck |
060519 |
Just A Drip. Dessert Of The GOOD LORD: One Of His More Potent VAC's.
The End Of
The
Dhow Building Logbook
|
|
Jonathan |
060510 |
Just A Drip. An African Carpenter
|
|
Malaria and A-fib |
060429 |
Rather Wet Neck Again. It Pleases The GOOD
LORD To Haunt The Commander With Diseases. The Advent Of
Philemon
|
|
Problem Shooting |
060417 |
Dry Feet Not Too Wet Neck.
BPP Introduced, Mooring Off Shore |
|
Finishing the dhow |
060412 |
Dry Feet Wet Neck.
"GT" Ben unleashed. Buying A Canoe, Big NEMA's, Other Defecational Incidents
And The Advent Of Carpenter Jonathan |
|
"Kazi imemaliza" |
060401 |
Wet Feet, Wet Neck. "The job is finished": TZ crew out. |
|
To Jinja |
060326 |
Final Laps Of The 300 Km Lake Trip Of Unfinished Dhow |
|
Kidnapped |
060323 |
Dessert of the TZ menu: operation of
Tanzania Police "Mr. Malima & His Camp": kidnapped by TZ police, ransom demanded |
|
Off To Joseph |
060319 |
My "Backpackers' camp between Masaka and the Tanzanian border |
|
Remote Head Quarters Jinja |
060309 |
Back in Jinja. Email, SMS and phone circus. Computer breakdown, medicine
withdrawal symptoms, gadgets and golf. No boat. |
|
Banned |
060303 |
Chief Mwanza Immigration Officer, District Commissioner and probably
Regional Commissioner all unaware.... |
|
Putting The Mast |
060228 |
Released by police but "keep your cell phone switched on", agreeable
company of a remarkable German couple |
|
Hacked |
060222 |
Mindphiles.com/greetings Turkish hacked by Metlak |
|
Jailed |
060221 |
Arrested At Gunpoint and Jailed by Mwanza Police On Request Of Mwanza
Immigration |
|
Finishing The Deck |
060220 |
Fitting The Deck Planks |
|
Making Mast and Gaff |
060212 |
And renewed immigration harassment, and making the palm mat sunroof |
|
Making The Sail |
060211 |
Hand made, christian ground use fee avoided |
|
Lake Shore Life |
060209 |
The local village divided about how best to milk us |
|
Reaching The Shore |
060207 |
The Gate Of Heaven |
|
Launching |
060205 |
A Work Of God |
|
Last Preparations For Launching |
060204 |
A Crane Or Not A Crane, That Is The Question |
|
Author
Before Tribunal |
060128 |
Kamkala Soap #10,
Kamkala Soap Home |
|
Triangle Operetta: Curtain |
060128 |
Shire polyhedron mounted |
|
Laying The Keel |
060125 |
A bit late....Two teams at work, money down |
|
The Kamkala Soap Index Page |
060123 |
Kamkala Soap Home |
|
The
Letter |
060123 |
Kamkala Soap Home |
|
Rain Yes, Brains No, Planer May Be |
060120 |
In which even just drilling is a problem, the author needs explanation of the African meaning of rain,
and brings the town's best shipyard's planer back in operation. |
|
Saa Moja |
060113 |
The author as acting shipyard boss. This suspiciously looks like working |
|
My Shopping Centre |
060108 |
Unfortunately newly equipped with a video tent |
|
Pseumonia, Police and Productive Paranoia |
051231 |
Good Luck: hitting on the right threat. Amazing ertia |
|
Despair
and Depression |
051228 |
They built me a matchbox |
|
Why Tanzania is a Serious Country |
051213 |
I need a "Job" and a "Visa". Who the hell taught them about these things? |
|
Back in Shipyard supplies |
051212 |
Dhow inspection 2: The thing moves like a snake! |
|
Digression
on
Donkeys and Monkeys |
051201 |
My sincere apologies to the donkeys and monkeys for sometimes following the primitive
habit of humans to associate them with the three most prominent characteristics of
their own kind: Stupidity, Selfishness and Greed |
|
Arrested |
051130 |
Arrest ends in laudatio |
|
Wrong Screws, No Wood |
051126 |
Angel founders and falls: The reverend's carpentry work halted: wrong
screws, no wood, no money, fear of imprisonment at the ship yard |
|
Greeneye |
051120 |
A remarkable cat |
|
Gabriel Descends From Heaven |
051120 |
A reverend arrives on the scene of the dhow yard |
|
The Mother Of Doldrums |
051117 |
Dhow Yard boss Daniel enters the orange zone without further delay |
|
Mwanza from above |
051105 |
Three Bird's Eye Views of Mwanza |
|
Drying a Yard: Grand Finale |
051101 |
Lawyers into play, a new contract with details, time table and wittness, and
money paid (the end of drying) |
|
A Memorable Lake Trip |
051016 |
How my box on the ear of a little thug put my guests off and left the hired
dhow and its crew for me alone |
|
Money Stolen |
051015 |
Kamkala Soap #7
Kamkala Soap Home |
|
The Miraculous Return Of My Money |
051004 |
An End To Wetting The Wrong Yard |
|
Nataka pesa ("I need money") |
051003 |
How to put African economic theory in practice? |
|
Dhow Pictures |
050922 |
No words... |
|
Personal Kiswahili vicissitudes |
050920 |
Dhow building stagnation, good for my Kiswahili. Author on the edge of
craziness, but finally starts cutting Kiswahili verbs like fresh French
baguettes (and suddenly finds himself in control of his piano) |
|
Wetting A Yard (The Wrong One) |
050907 |
My dhow money involuntarily invested in another ship |
|
Money Unavailable |
050901 |
Kees will give me my money "end of next week"
Kamkala Soap Home |
|
Drying A Yard |
050831 |
To stop a yard doing nothing, it should be broke first |
|
Classical African Business Doldrums |
050831 |
The Desert Of Indolence, Lies And False Promises |
|
Isamilo
Life |
050901 |
My Life at one of Mwanza's hilltops overlooking the bay
Kamkala Soap Home |
|
Dhow
Diving Down The Line Of Perfect Inertia |
050809 |
Working like nuts and amazing progress on dhows and Kiswahili |
|
Dhow Yard
Revisited |
050804 |
Pictures of my dhow in statu nascendi |
|
Finding a house |
050803 |
Isamilo is my place in Mwanza as long as the dhow is on land
Kamkala Soap Home |
|
Unexpected logistical node at
Bukoba |
050801 |
Ferry Bukoba-Mwanza: its crane is broken, it takes no cars |
|
Nomad logistics |
050729 |
Nomad life looks easy, but it isn't if you have scattered property stores |
|
Vous n'êtes pas dans le bon sens
là!
(Europe revisited 2) |
050613 |
Rolling cabin of 3.20 m meets 2.4 m tunnel at midnight in pouring rain in
Lyon |
|
Europe revisited |
050612 |
Game Park Europe where you see its citizens in their
natural habitat |
|
Playing the Wrong Song (my expulsion from 2 Friends |
050528 |
Yes, indeed, though you may
not believe it: how I was expelled from my house for playing a song which
did not please the son of one of the owners of 2 Friends restaurant |
|
Cutting and Planning |
050524 |
Finally:
wood! Reassuring enthusiasm among my people |
|
Mwanza Yacht club and Hotel Tilapia
|
050516 |
Surprising luxury at the Mwanza shore side |
|
All about mninga wood
|
050513 |
A beautiful tropical wood, too hard for the wood boring
lake insects |
|
Day Zero:
No Train, No wood and Malaria |
050511 |
Deadline for wood delivery violated, client on drip in
hospital |
|
Screws, maps but still no wood
|
050509 |
Mysterious wood and screw price quotations and hard too
believe stories |
|
No Wood
|
050502 |
An adventurous inquiry into mysteriously long delays in
wood delivery |
|
Haipa Killed by School Bus |
050328 |
Asshole with school bus refuses to pull his brakes for
Haipa |
|
Move to Two Friends restaurant Boys Quarters |
050316 |
Real size
dhow training for watchdogs, only the Lake is a restaurant with a lovely
refuse dump |
|
Illegal |
050101 |
Business trip from Jinja to Mwanza, meant to start building a sailing dhow, ends underground |
|
The Best Yard in Town
|
050101 |
A second round along the shipyards with second thoughts |
|
Exploration and
a False Start
|
050101 |
Finding the right town but the wrong shipyard to build a dhow |
|
Maersk (bringing in your
stuff) |
050101 |
Importing
your personal effects. Experience of an naive immigrant to East Africa with Maersk Kampala and the Uganda Customs
Authority. How "government officials" do
everything they can to prevent the economic development of their countries. |
|
The Problem and the Idea |
050101 |
How
I got the idea of living on a dhow on Lake Victoria |
|
Getting set for Uganda |
050101 |
A summary account of how my life led to my emigration to Africa |
|
Groeten (Dutch language
predecessor home page) |
