Yesterday, Kalle and Jutta left and Eberhard from Gauting arrived. I'm now getting experience in the "washing, cleaning and teaching" routine involved in a crew change. The boat needs to be cleaned i ...
We have been getting complaints about the weather recently and I have to say there’s something to them. The AC heater is on every morning to get the boat up to even spring temperatures. Yesterday, ...
Our sail to Barcelona, some 110 miles, was our longest leg so far this year. It was also the first time Kalle and Jutta were out of sight of land on a sailboat and their first night sail! They live ...
It started to rain and blow here a couple of days ago which put a damper on our outdoor activities. So we decided to stay put, turn on the heater and do some boat projects. Nonetheless, we managed t ...
Yesterday we completed the circumnavigation (of Menorca) and put into Ciutadella once again. The first docking of the new team had to make do without a marinero taking our lines because we arrived du ...
Kalle and I went to school together at the Kaiser Wilhelm Gymnasium in Hannover many years ago and have been sailing together on my fathers boats several times over the years. Jutta, his new mate, i ...
It’s getting repetitive but another great sailing day was had yesterday in a 10-20kn Easterly. Rieke and my father much appreciated the fine sail given that it was their last day. Mahon harbor is ...
We had another great sail today, with a strong Northerly breeze, i.e. blowing off the land. The plan was to explore some of the calas recommended in Rieke’s tour guide and that we did. I think we ...
We arrived here a few days ago and have been a bit lazy, relatively speaking. The plan was to stay only one day, to be used to tour the island by car and that we did. But then we had a strong Northe ...
Saturday, we took a lay day but it was not a lazy day. We rented a car and drove up the coast a bit to Valldemossa, a well known monestary and the place where Chopin spent the last few years of his l ...