Well our flagship, admiral pitka, is actually an old Danish ship. Our latest mine hunters were recently purchased from the brits. In fact, the commander of the illustrious actually served on one of them.

So we just buy ships that larger european countries find too expensive to utilise. As for mines around here, expected to last for another hundred years, kinda makes you wonder how many tons of explosives surrounded by metal did the sink here.

Dude, you have no idea. Check out this estonian who makes furniture out of old mine casings.

http://www.marinemine.com/

lol, that guy is freakin' crazy.

A mine baby carriage
http://www.marinemine.com/form2.php?pat ... CT0003.JPG

that carriage is awesome. elthough you must have arms like Arnie to use it

So my sailing trip to Finland. It took us 8h to get there and 7h back thanks to the wind conditions. On our way there we did about 6,5 to 7,2 knots and on our way back we did about 7,5 to 8,2 knots. The weather conditions were perfect we saw lightning, rain, sunshine, perfect calm, two large rainbows, a cargo ship that gave us safe passage and a waterspout () which was roughly 10 miles from us. I had never seen one so close but i had seen one before.

All in all i actually managed to enjoy the trip because usually people fail to understand that for me this is work, 8-10h of pure work. They just sing and drink and have fun but for me its just work because should something happen im the one whose hands will be cuffed

I'll post 3 pictures which i had to scale down. The first two will be of me, and the 3rd one will be the sailing yacht. The yacht itself is a A class yacht which means that it is equipped and built to sail across oceans but we haven't gotten around to that yet. Should you ever visit me in Tallinn we'll see if i can take you out on the bay with it. Enjoy.

Cool pics! You have the same face as your father, too.

Do you do it as a tourist service or something? Because you said it's work and you are responsible.

I used to sail btw - not boats like that but smaller boats. I used to be able to prepare and take down an entire boat, installing all the ropes and putting up the sail etc., and of course steering it. So I can imagine how much work it can be.