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A slow 250 miles to home

Last Thursday we met with the Tres Hombres in Amsterdam. And with that, an end to my trans-Atlantic round trip this summer with [...]

Anyone who had decided to go along with the ocean crossing during the hurricane season has probably still had his doubts. There is [...]

Last week a lot happened. We are, after two weeks anchoring, on the embankment for the museum in the village. We are therefore [...]

And so we continue for almost two weeks after our arrival in Lunenburg, Canada. We are still not in the port, which seems [...]

This morning the news that the Tres Hombres a month here in of seven continues to lie to the hurricane season. A shock [...]

Our sailing trip from the Dominican Republic to the Azores began very prosperous. With the Dominican Republic we were tacking only once over [...]

The first days after departure we had with wind force 7 violently sailing weather. And because the ship had been dry for several [...]

Despite all attempts of Captain James, the agent and countless others it is unfortunately still didn’t manage to get the load tea to [...]

Without problems and with a strong breeze in the back we sailed in 5 days of Grenada to Santa Marta in Colombia. The [...]

Fortunately for us everything went as usual with delay, so that we (trainees and deckhands) could spend some more time on this beautiful [...]