June 2018

After a week at sea most of us don’t mind stretching the legs. And as we just have entered the English Channel we can. There are lots of spots to choose from. This morning...

Today the wind declined further and, as expected, turned north. However, it turned further and further, until it became north-north-east. This is a bummer for our course, ...

As expected, once we passed the cold front we had to sail close to the wind. This was the case, and for quite some time we sailed 25 to 30 knots. Our course was still north...

The last few days we have sailed north as much as possible. There was no wind and we had to use the engine. However, the wind has returned and we are sailing again. But we...

When we loaded our bunkers, we set the first sails (at the quay) and sailed out of the harbour. With the variable wind it did not go that fast, but it is a lot of fun, for...

The last part of our voyage was in the Azores-High, so there was no wind at all. It is very special to see the ocean so quiet and flat! Beautiful, but as a sailing vessel ...

The past few days we have enjoyed a favourable wind! We went fast, and pretty much in the direction we want to go. During the day the sun shines, and at night we have a ...

On board we had a conversation that we had not seen much wildlife yet. And only one hour after this conversation, we saw tuna jumping out of the water in the distance. So,...

Once we arrived at 36 degrees north the wind was not what we had expected, so we decided to sail further north before heading east. At 37 degrees north, we found the wind ...