Set sail with a three-master of the Corona pandemic on the Atlantic sailing: What may sound in Shutdown like a distant dream holiday, was for 33 students on Board with your “floating classroom”, the school ship “Pelican of London” in, in the past half a year, a reality.
On Saturday, the group of students returned to two Atlantic crossings to Germany. By noon, the tall ships, a delivery in the port of Emden – the travel at the beginning of October had begun before the second Shutdown, too.
Overjoyed, with cheers and many happy tears parents and siblings took their family members on the quay in the reception and thanked before the landing maneuver of the Board, loudly singing with numerous shanties. The Federal police monitored the arrival of and compliance with the Corona rules.
“We were like a family”
In addition to lessons, excursions and sailing for the students, the most in the tenth class belonged to the daily life on Board. On your about 14,500 miles (approximately 26,000 kilometers) long the trip is, the group to Gibraltar, sailed, then continue to the Canary Islands, in the Caribbean and through the Panama canal to Costa Rica and back. Experienced sailors and three teachers accompanied them.
“We were like a family,” said the 15-year-old Martha Dingeldein from the Cohesion on the sailors. A little bit of uncertainty as to ready the Corona pandemic. Go to “now back home and don’t know what it is like on Board, where one can embrace all just that is hard,” said Martha.
On Board, largely without the phone and the Internet, have played the pandemic is hardly a role, also reported Finja sheet from Stuttgart. “We had noticed a small Bubble for us and not so much of the Corona,” said the 14-Year-old. A mask is compulsory on Board, it was not. That will change soon. Already on Monday, the sweep of the school day starts for the first home back.
