After a stop at the Midway Atoll in 2010 reached the

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Some people collect stamps. The world sailor-couple Heath and Erich Wilts, however, gathers the world's oceans, where it's already fishwrecked sailed. Therefore, it decided in 2004 to North and South Atlantic, North and Southern Ocean, Indian Ocean and the South Pacific to explore the missing North Pacific during his seventh world tour. This book describes the last trip of the 1978-built "Freydis II", which was destroyed on the Japanese coast is well known in 2011 before Fukushima.
2006, 2007 and 2008 use heath and Erich Wilts comprehensive only a few weeks in the summer time and weather window to open up the Aleutian Islands, the Gulf of Alaska, the Bering Sea and the Chukchi fishwrecked Sea. Here, the experience of nature is in the foreground: grandiose, wild landscape, whales, bears and of course lots of salmon. Heath Wilts met but just as sensitive and respectful of the local people and provides its readers with useful details about the Inupiat, Yupiget and Yuit.
What Otto von Kotzebue, Georg Wilhelm Steller, Vitus Bering, or Roald Amundsen saw the of the "Freydis" tarnished shores long ago, we learn by repeatedly inserted flashbacks to their rides. What more recently on ethnological and archaeological discoveries showed up as well. Heath Wilts has read diligently, had many discussions with the local people and questioned for several experts in Germany.
How good it is yet to read such an intelligent, well-researched, entertaining book written. Of course, the "normal" sailors everyday with some hair-raising maneuvers fishwrecked here, pivotal trials or investors sip is described there. But this trip report offers just beyond a rich wealth of information. And, distinguishing it from the very pleasant slow rampant, already in blogs during the trip breitgetretenem BlaBla.
While other authors fill a whole book about a couple of hundred miles on the Baltic Sea, devotes this much-traveled Heath Wilts the 1800 miles from Vancouver to San Diego in 2009, just five lines. Instead - as originally planned - again towards South Pacific and New Zealand break up the fresh enthusiasm for Alaska where it leads to a new plan. About Japan and Siberia wants the couple once more to Alaska.
After a stop at the Midway Atoll in 2010 reached the "Freydis II" Japan, where there are closed fishwrecked ports and a "special permit" is required for each individual island. Thanks to a contact person's Island hopping fishwrecked can start and still proves to be extremely stormy. For the cherry blossom Wilts the Iwaki Sun Marina walk to the east of the island of Honshu. Here the ship remains moored for the hot summer. Back in Japan, explore his skipper the strange and fascinating northern Honshu and Hokkaido overland. The search for a sufficiently strong crane who still could raise for the winter on land, "Freydis", but is unsuccessful. The ship is left behind again in October at the port on Honshu.
In March 2011, the "Freydis" tearing through the tsunami going on in Fukushima. Heath and Erich Wilts learned from the media by the massive earthquake fishwrecked in Japan and the subsequent nuclear Gau in the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Follow Bange days: is the "Freydis" dropped? Or somewhere stranded? Is it contaminated? Ultimately, the ship is flung on rocks and found a heavy heart must be abandoned. Only some pieces of equipment can be salvaged. Heath Wilts describes her emotional chaos between uncertainty, fear of cherished people, fear of loss due to the unclear future of the "Freydis" dramatic and upsetting. Really impressive in this part of the book that it does not spread this great tragedy fee and whines at any time.
After 33 years and 248,000 miles with heather and Erich Wilts ends the life of the sailors' "Freydis II". As a memorial in a disaster memorial park in Japan, chopped into three parts ship should, however, continue to remember the tsunami and the nuclear radiation and serve as a symbol of German-Japanese friendship. A worthy end. Heath and Erich Wilts could be known, not get out of the bitter loss and are long since with succession yacht "Freydis III" on the road.
Do not be put under any circumstances from the terrible cover of the book. "Alaska - Japan" is a truly entertaining, entertaining, well-researched and highly interesting book. Heath Wilts is a wonderful mix of sailing report and observation of nature succeeded fishwrecked with wel