All the Letters home

Restmore, 12/4/1934 Since I am afraid, I will run dry during Christmas of Krone these couple of lines for to ask you, Valdemar, when you have time and opportunity to sender’s 300 Krones, then I hope you can have peace from me for the rest of the winter. Now we […]

Brussels, 11/13/1934 We have now reached Brussels and got the money – then Lars and I mad. a day out of it, when we picked it up, that is, we didn’t drink up all of it but had fun with free or quite cheap entertainment the first Lays that we […]

Antwerp, Belgium 10/29/1934Now this letter has to be finished. We have reached here safely and the Belgian people are much friendlier than those stupid Dutchmen. Thanks to them (Dutchmen) we now sit warm and good here tonight. we bought as good as new a splendid petroleum heater, Kvertchen for 75 […]

Belgium 10/21/1934 in one or another “Schleuse” (Lock) don’t even know the name of it – Thank you so much for the letter and story about Knud, Kirsten, and Paula. Poor Knud, he has enough to do with the two but after what we have learned of their opinion about […]

Amsterdam, Netherlands 10/5/1934Then we came so far and we got your 2 letters in Delfcyl and Amsterdam and say hearty thanks. We also thank for the invitation to the aunt in Cap town, we will right away set the course over there south southwest and a half line west but […]

Esbjerg, Denmark 9/11/1934 Today it was a big day in Esbjerg harbor. The famous writer with the no less famous family in his yacht “Restmore” which is on a smaller Round-the-world cruise, cleared the docks and rounded the harbor mouth by motor with sails furled, since the so frightful North […]

Month Day year Place9 11 1934 Esbjerg10 5 1934 Amsterdam10 21 1934 in a Lock, Holland10 29 1934 Antwerpen11 13 1934 Brussels12 4 1934 “Restmore”12 17 1934 Rysbroek, Belgium12 18 1934 Rysbroek, Belgium1 6 1935 Antwerp Netherlands 1 22 1935 Rysbroek, Belgium3 8 1935 Rysbroek, Belgium3 9 1935 Rysbroek, Belgium3 […]

The Danish yacht “Restmore” which goes around the world has arrived in Rabat.Yesterday morning, we could see in our port, anchored not far from the pontoon of the Nautical Club, a small yacht bearing the name of “Rest-More” and flying the Danish flag, with a white cross, at its mast. […]

interview with a world sailor 24th July 1934 “Skipper” Peter Dohm talks about his plans. The adventurous knows no country boundaries. There stands a young man in our re-action, light-haired , brown-barked by the sun and wind. Peter Dohm is called, born in Cologne, a polytechnic student, unemployed through many […]

The Dohm Family of East End By Jaime Elliott St Thomas was a far different place when the Dohm family’s 33-foot wooden double-ender first plied the waters off its pristine shoreline in 1937. Grainy black and white family photos of that time reveal Charlotte Amalie waterfront with lots of empty […]