Category: Sailing

Via Inmarsat:

Flaute (ger) = calm, no wind. 3rd day in a row. Annoying. Won’t have XMas with Andrea. Day 9: 78nm, day 10: 24nm Long:-28.0052 Lat:18.95313 [...]

Via Inmarsat:

Wind became rougher up to 34kn. Whales joined us for 45min. Amazing! Distance day 5: 125nm, day 6: 142nm Long:-22.86553 Lat:21.60492 [...]

Via Inmarsat:

Distance 3rd day:92nm, 4th day 99nm. Not so fast, but weather is nice. Sea sickness is gone 🙂 Long:-19.16006 Lat:24.11917 [...]

Via Inmarsat:

Short update from the Atlantic. 1st day 140nm, 2nd day 78nm. Wind gets less. Long:-16.63994 Lat:26.31802 [...]

First Day

First sunset after a nice sailing day with changing winds. People have told me that sea sickness disappear after 3 days. Lets see. 🙂 I enjoy it though. Long:-13.822930 Lat:28.285760 [...]

Good Bye

Good bye Europe. We are sailing away. [...]

Via Inmarsat:

This is an update directly from the satellite phone. Long:-13.5398 Lat:28.96199 Please note your reply is limited to 160 Latin characters or approximately 135 for non-Latin characters. Sent via Inmarsat. The mobile satellite company [...]

Update

Waiting for the storm to calm down. Storage is full. Ready for leaving tomorrow. Long:-13.53984 Lat:28.9622 [...]

Not leaving before Saturday

Short update on our situation. Since there is a storm coming on Friday we will stay in the harbor until Saturday. Then the forecast is promising nice weather to take off. We still plan to arrive before Christmas though. Lat:28.96186 Long:-13.53949 [...]

Preparation

So I arrived well at Marina. We used the Monday for some water and Coke shopping. It is not so easy to finde the right amount of water/beer/wine/coke. How much water will you drink in 30 days? So we decided to go for 300 litre of drinking water. Additional we have water in the tanks, [...]

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