| BACK IN THE WATER After so many weeks of pounding, cutting, burning, hammering, welding, and painting, we are ready. The OOSTERSCHELDE is ready to float again. However, we're not quite ready to sail yet. The coming week and a half we will be busy connecting pipes to tanks and re-rigging the topmasts. In two weeks, the ship will return to Rotterdam to rebuild the interior some of which had to be dismantled for the project. | 
