Tiki Anchorage, Moorea

It has been more than 4 weeks since we last went shopping for any food, so stores, particularly vegetables and fruit, were running a bit low as we are at anchor in Fakarava. The food shopping is ...

Fakarava, Tuamotus

The Tuamotus are traditionally called the Dangerous Islands. This name stems from times when there was no GPS and navigation was by dead reckoning and celestial navigation only. The T ...

Ua Pou, Marquesas

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 Longest Passage

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 ...

Santa Cruz, Galapagos

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 ...

San Cristobal, Galapagos

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 ...

Ready for the Pacific?

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 ...

Santa Marta

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 ...