We left the motor boats behind today in the marina - it was blowing a nice 20-25kn from the North East and we sailed a sporty 25 miles to another beautiful anchoring spot. Just one other cruiser he ...
Yesterday was a day of exploring the Ibiza castle and town and to catch up on some boat work. The main achievement, however, was to finally find some "real" tapas for dinner after many attempts with ...
We rented a car on Formentera and explored what was there. It's a quiet island without much evidence of "over" tourism. When we got back to the boat, there was still time for the sail over to Ibiza ...
We're sitting here in La Savina on Formentera now and feel a bit lucky to be here already. Yesterday, as she was pulling up the anchor, Rieke reported a large chain around the anchor. Yes, it was "L ...
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 ...