From Martinique, we headed North to Dominica, the “Nature Island”. It is endowed with spectacular scenery. The handbook recommended that we go to Roseau to explore the best of it and that’s wh ...

When I first got back to the boat in January, there was quite a bit of work to be done by “helpful men”, which is always a cause for concern as we are dealing with the boating industry. But I sho ...

It’s been a long flight and I’m just walking to baggage claim. How do I know where I’ve landed? Simple, there’s only one airport where I have ever seen this sign: San Francisco! Kidding a ...

We have been here on Martinique for 3 days for one sole purpose: to get Kincsem back in top shape. We had a number of major breakdowns in the ARC: first, the watermaker started leaki ...

Life on board Kincsem follows a standard routine. We have 4 three hour night watches from 2100 to 0900 and three four hour day watches from 0900 to 2100 boat time. All five of us go watches by ...

The Kincsem crew poised to cast off! ...

It has been an extremely busy week for the entire Kincsem crew. Provisioning the boat was one big task for all of us. Several months ago Almut had come up with a detailed list of mea ...

After a 7 weeks hiatus in San Francisco, I’m back on Kincsem. There were a few items the sailmaker was supposed to finish during my absence, which of course didn’t happen. I also ...

My cockpit is at the same level as the elevated, busy road along the waterfront of Las Palmas. It is hot and very noisy. In addition to the car traffic, there is the whir of the polis ...

Kincsem is three days out of Falmouth and we are approaching Cape Finisterre, the Northwest corner of Spain. As of 0900 this morning, we have covered 480 of the approximately 1450 naut ...