New Year in Monte Carlo

Storm on the way to Balearics

I haven't seen some guys for two days. My watch from 10 crew became 4 able to work only....

Trip continues

Sailing boat inside

Night Mast Climbing

Sqare sails and cords

15 sails and each of them has around 10 cords to operate them (eg bramsel 6 gordings, 2 sheets, halyard, contre-halyard, 2 braces, gejtawa).

And the coolest sail name (polish names come often from Dutch) : Grotbombramsztaksel
Where grot - main sail, bom - boom, bram - name of upper sail, sztak - means it is in the front, sel - means sail

New Year's Eve Saling Trip on Pogoria

I'm sailing on Pogoria as mate (officer). I got 10 people in my watch. This square rugged boat is great. 50 meters and 1050 square meters of sail. We are all over 40 persons on board. Brave girl from my watch on the mast.

Last day of skiing

Working as ski instructor in Italy (Aosta Valley)

I got girls from british boarding school. The snowing conditions are great - and skiing students are great.... I even progressed in understanding of "British humor"


Looks like I found my dream job....

Trip finished

I am now in Italy, in Aosta Valley working as ski instructor.

The trip is over, and I started to look for some honest work.

Just developed

I know it does not look like on the surfers movies (blond chick- big boobs, big wave, blue ocean, white sand, muscled surfer with no t-shirt) ;-)

The other photos: in the rolling ball and in the net.

Aerobatics and old plane flying - loops and rolls

Today I did pilot in loops and rolls. When you are upside down you are exactly in the same position like the planes in Europe ;-)
If you want to see how these loops and rolls looked live go to : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc7kjrtKOcs - it is actually a great fun to pilot upside down!

Kiwi Pilot? - landing on the beach and instrument flight

Finally I passed the tests and I'll get the New Zealand Pilot license. Today I was flying under the hood - instrument flight and as well we went to land on the beach ! incredible.... Huge beach and nobody is there as the closest town is more than hundred kilometers away....

Flying in NZ

I just started couple of days of flying in Abel Tasman region (north of south island).

PS
Do not tell anybody I was taking pictures while piloting ! ;-)