Cruising life is gathering steam! As I'm writing this, we're in a lovely anchorage tucked between two islands north of Formentera. No other boats around. Yesterday, we sailed over from the mainland ...
Papi, Friederike and I arrived in Alicante on Thursday. The boat was in fine shape albeit under a brown veil of dust. Three hours of work got rid of that the next day - now she looks like new again. ...
We got here a couple of days ago. Again, great downwind sailing with the Gennaker. Sun and breeze all day. I'm leaving the boat here until the end of March. She's at the docks of the Real Club de ...
We had another great sailing day yesterday. It started out very light downwind, which enabled us to try the "three way" wing to wing: gennaker to port, main to starboard and mizzen to port. It work ...
Yesterday, the sun was out as usual and the wind was nothing to write home about. We nonetheless gave it our best shot, tacking upwind for an hour or so in a dying Easterly. That ended when it was t ...
Yesterday we had the great idea to try our anchoring skills. We launched the dinghy in the morning, put the engine on it and put the whole thing on the davits. Sounds easy but at a weight of 55 kg f ...
Today we did a little hop to Aquadulce, some 20 miles Northeast of Almerimar. Actually got a bit of sailing in in a light Southerly breeze. Aquadulce is another one of those resort towns like Almeri ...
This weekend, Rieke, Benno and I drove to Grenada for a bit of serious sightseeing. The Alhambra was truly spectacular - well worth a visit. Rieke had us on a tight schedule, making sure we saw all ...
The team from Amel was here from Monday afternoon to Thursday morning and addressed a number of items on the "punch list", most importantly the issues we had with the furlers for the main and mizzen o ...
I arrived on Wednesday and the boat was in good shape. Less dirty than I expected - I guess no storms with desert sand from the South since August? The guys did a great job cleaning everything on Th ...