I've made a slide show of photos and videos of the 2019 season. If you're up for 28 minutes, you can stream it by clicking the link below and then „download“ and „view“. Enjoy! Your text ...
2019 Sicily to Vigo
Kincsem is now safely put away for the winter and I’m leaving tomorrow. Christoph and I had a nice few weeks of cruising the Galician rias (rivers) and getting Kincsem ready for the winter, althoug ...
It was a bit challenging to sail Kincsem to Porto from Cascais - at least as compared to hopping from harbor to harbor in the Med in the summer time. This is a coast that is not for novices or the fa ...
Today, Nicki is departing for home. We had a great time exploring Lisbon and Porto, first with family, Rainer und Almut, then with our old friends the Kluebers. Since this is a sailing blog, there w ...
The trip back down the Guadalquevir was quick and surprisingly we got to sail much of the way. We - Almut, Rainer, Christoph and I - anchored - again - at Bonanza near the mouth of the river b ...
When you look at the map of Kincsem's locations, you will notice a strange detour inland. Normally, cruisers like Kincsem don't go to Seville, which is some 50 miles inland. But in 2017, we were ber ...
On our way to Lisbon, we once again rounded Tarifa at the Western end of the Straight of Gibraltar - again in high winds, like in 2016 - and made one more nice stop: Cadiz. Cadiz is very nice town wi ...
We arrived here a few days ago after motoring most of the way from Malaga. Point Europa We are anchored just North of Gibraltar on the Spanish side - a place called La Linea. It takes 20 minute ...
The first part of the season ended today with one of the greatest sailing days we’ve had in the last few years. But even on Kincsem with all its push button systems, Eberhard and I were working har ...
There is another Amel 55 here at the dock at the Marina de Valencia. It is no. 2, built in early 2013 and it is owned by a nice Canadian couple. Time to exchange some ideas about improvements to th ...