We land on June 29 in the morning at London Gatwick and take the train to Southampton. Through the window we see Europe passing by: raked gardens without wrecked cars or other junk in them, good roads without potholes; everything looks very neat compared to the Caribbean. The transport ship appears to have sailed faster… Continue reading Homewards…
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Guadeloupe
So, on April 9 we sail from Dominica to Guadeloupe, or to be more precise the Îsles de Saintes, just below the main island of Guadeloupe. The wind is again strong, but luckily we don’t have to sail close to the wind, but a little lower, which makes it a bit less uncomfortable. After about… Continue reading Guadeloupe
Sailing the Caribbean and visiting Martinique
I think everyone can imagine the concept of “sailing in the Caribbean”, including us before we left. Blue sky, blue water, nice breeze, then hop a bit from island to island. And that is partly true, but only partly: luckily, we still have something to complain about…. The Caribbean is in the trade wind at… Continue reading Sailing the Caribbean and visiting Martinique
Tough decisions…
It was not easy, but for various reasons and circumstances we have been forced to make a major decision: we are not going to sail back to Europe ourselves. Instead, we will have the boat transported on a freighter from the Caribbean to Europe (around mid-May from Antigua to Southhampton to be precise). We fly… Continue reading Tough decisions…
Greetings from the Tobago Cays
Just an in-between-greeting from the Tobago Cays. We hate it here 😉 Click on the star to continue watching….
Suriname
After the stopover on Isle du Salut it was time to set course for Suriname. A journey of 175 miles. In order to arrive at the right time at the outer buoy and estuary of the Suriname River, we left at the end of the afternoon. Along the way it was always a puzzle because… Continue reading Suriname
THE crossing
If you read through the previous blog post about THE crossing, you may get the idea that such a crossing isn’t really that much of a deal, that it’s easy and you’ll be on the other side before you know it. That is not quite the case. So, here’s some extra info about THE crossing… Continue reading THE crossing
Champagne!
We have arrived! It wasn’t champagne sailing (perhaps a bit of Martini-sailing, albeit “shaken ánd stirred” 😉), but that doesn’t matter anymore: we’re on the other side, we have crossed the ocean! Last night we dropped our anchor at the Iles du Salut of French Guiana. The bottle could be opened! From here we continue… Continue reading Champagne!
Off to Cape Verde
We stayed a bit longer in Gran Canaria than planned, also because we had to wait until our third future member Ingo had flown in. We expect the long crossings to be less difficult with the three of us. The boats of the ARC+ have now found themselves in Las Palmas. We visited Las Palmas… Continue reading Off to Cape Verde
Luxury problems
The crossing from Madeira to the Canary Islands started well: we were waved goodbye by two pilot whales who showed themselves quite close to us (no images, sorry, just like the sea turtle later in the trip), and we had a nice backstay wind (coming in diagonally from behind). We sailed past the Ilhas Desertas… Continue reading Luxury problems