Ua Pou is the last island we are visiting in the Marquesas and it is known for its crazy rock spires. The name is pronounced “U-a Po-u” (not “U-a-Pou”) as sequential vowels are pron ...
The sail from the Galapagos to the Marquesas is the longest leg of most circumnavigations. It’s 3,000 miles roughly but if there is no wind in Galapagos, one needs to take South-sout ...
Tomorrow is the start for the next leg of the World ARC, Santa Cruz to Hiva Oa in the Marquesas, the longest leg in the entire really around the World. Almut, Rainer, Caecilia an ...
It’s been all of 30 minutes that our anchor has touched the bottom of Puerto Baquerizo Moreno and already a launch full of officials has arrived. One is diving under Kincsem to look for small ...
We spent seven days in the Shelter Bay marina, waiting for our transit of the Panama canal. The World ARC group of 32 boats was split into three groups for the canal transit. The transit w ...
Before you can leave Colombia you have to check out, which is not as simple as it sounds. At the skippers meeting the “yellow shirts” from World Cruising told us to file a request for Zarpe – e ...
The leg from St Lucia to Santa Marta, Columbia, was billed as a straight downwind run in beautiful trade wind conditions. But the routing showed that it was going to be a bit tricky, with all three w ...
My trip back to the boat began with a surprise: the nice lady at the American Airlines check-in counter asked me whether I had filled in the immigration form and gave me the link. Oddly, it was a fo ...
The last four weeks have seen a whirlwind of activity on Kincsem. I arrived at Grenada on November 14 with a to do list a mile long, both for me and for several service providers: SIMS, the boat ya ...
I just closed up Kincsem for the hurricane season. She is as well prepared as she can be. The last hurricane that caused significant damage in Southern Grenada was in 2004 – Hurricane Ivan and bef ...