{"id":4855,"date":"2014-08-19T09:54:13","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T07:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/?p=4855"},"modified":"2016-06-15T18:33:27","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T16:33:27","slug":"the-ship-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/berlin\/the-ship-update\/","title":{"rendered":"The ship &#8211; update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heartofberlin.onpressidium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/026.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4856\" src=\"https:\/\/heartofberlin.onpressidium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/026-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"026\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/026-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/026-1024x681.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>It\u00b4s been over 2 years\u00a0 now since my friends and I started working on the ship in May 2012 &#8211; you can see the progress in the pictures<\/p>\n<p>I told about the vision and the beginning of it in a blog entry called <a title=\"The ressurection of a dream\" href=\"http:\/\/heartofberlin.onpressidium.com\/general\/the-ressurection-of-a-dream\/\" target=\"_blank\">The ressurection of a dream<\/a>. It\u00b4s been quite a journey. Challenging and rough at times &#8211; joyful and amazing at others.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What we have done so far: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Restored the core of the ship (underwatership) &#8211; renewing the steel.<\/li>\n<li>Removed all rust inside the ship, painted the inside, insulated it (it is 25 m long, 5 meters high &#8211; every square meter takes up to 5 hrs of work!).<\/li>\n<li>Put in 21 new windowsPut in floors<\/li>\n<li>Put in a woodstove<a href=\"http:\/\/heartofberlin.onpressidium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-01-19-13.59.40.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4857\" src=\"https:\/\/heartofberlin.onpressidium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-01-19-13.59.40-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"2014-01-19 13.59.40\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-01-19-13.59.40-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-01-19-13.59.40-1024x764.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Installed running water<\/li>\n<li>Installed a toilet<\/li>\n<li>Began to renew electricity<\/li>\n<li>Renovated the roof and part of the decks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More than 100 People from half a dozen of different nations have come here to help and be inspired. For many of them it is encouraging to see: It is hard work to make a dream come true. But it is possible. And it is a joy to see the financial and practical miracles happen.<\/p>\n<p>My vision for the ship is to provide a place for inspiration and restoration. So it has been a special joy to welcome one man whose life hat just fallen to pieces. He came here for 10 days of reflection, restoration and coaching and told me: &#8220;It was so good to talk to someone like you who does not offer recepies. No one in my life ever took so much time for me as you did!&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/heartofberlin.onpressidium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-07-16-19.42.41.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4861\" src=\"https:\/\/heartofberlin.onpressidium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-07-16-19.42.41-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"2014-07-16 19.42.41\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-07-16-19.42.41-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-07-16-19.42.41-1024x764.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It makes me cry to think about that&#8230;great man, but no one ever really took the time to listen, to encourage &#8230; and it makes me feel that providing that space for people to be, to be encouraged and to receive coaching is the right thing to do.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u00b4s next &#8211; autum projects<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Putting in 4 more portholes<\/li>\n<li>Putting in new doors &#8211; the old ones are cardboard&#8230;not secure at all!<\/li>\n<li>Putting up walls and doors in the rooms inside<\/li>\n<li>Putting in a kitchen<\/li>\n<li>Removing the rust on the decks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the &#8220;removing of the rust on the decks&#8221; I have started a fundraising campaign as this is quite an expensive part. It will take us about 100 hours to remove the rust and paint, but the paint is a pain in the neck&#8230;.Good ship paint hat lasts for a decade costs about 10 Euro \/ Dollar \/ Pounds per Liter. And we need about 200 !!! liters + electricity + some stuff to fill holes with.<\/p>\n<p>So a friend made a cool movie: <a title=\"The epic battle fighting the rust Heart of Berlin\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=43a15aeN9ug&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">Fighting the rust &#8211; the epic battle <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/heartofberlin.onpressidium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-07-12-17.22.38.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4858\" src=\"https:\/\/heartofberlin.onpressidium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-07-12-17.22.38-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"2014-07-12 17.22.38\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-07-12-17.22.38-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-07-12-17.22.38-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-07-12-17.22.38-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014-07-12-17.22.38.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Please<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Consider coming here and helping<\/strong> for a few days &#8211; and yes, bring your friends. It is soo cool!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Encourage me and pray for me!<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Have a look at the video, laugh and leave a comment.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Give<\/strong> something &#8211; no matter how much or little &#8211; to help us win the battle (use the paypal button on this blog at the right).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Share the video with your friends, tell them about the ship and ask them to come and help and \/ or give\u00a0<\/strong> &#8211; even if it is only a little. The easiest way to give is paypal: info@down-to-earth.de<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Togehter we will make it!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u00b4s been over 2 years\u00a0 now since my friends and I started working on the ship in May 2012 &#8211; you can see the progress in the pictures I told about the vision and the beginning of it in a blog entry called The ressurection of a dream. It\u00b4s been quite a journey. Challenging and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,226],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartofberlin.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}