Category: Atlantic
Porto Santo
September 22- September 30, 2019; 2207 nm and 192 days after departure from La Rochelle What a fish! The "Espada" (black scabbard fish, Schwarzer Degenfisch), the fish you can see in the introduction pic is a very impressive creature with it's strong teeth. It is THE fish in Porto Santo and Madeira which you find …
5 and a half days of pure Atlantic- feeling (like Columbus) and happily reaching Porto Santo/ Madeira
September 16- September 22, 2019; 2174 nm and 184 days after departure from La Rochelle Leaving Morocco was as easy as arriving. El Capitano did the check out for the marina a day ahead; all the payment was done, only immigration and customs needed to be finished. Again we were very lucky, after maybe half …
Tangier, a completely different culture yet so close to Europe
September 08- September 16, 2019; 1574 nm and 178 days after departure from La Rochelle The 60 nm leg to Africa (sounds great doesn't it 🤓) was unspectacular. The most exciting part was, us weaving through the traffic separation scheme (yes, there are traffic separation schemes in the water as well, here because of the …
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Impressions of Cádiz
https://videopress.com/v/Htk4ysIC?preloadContent=metadata Departure Sevilla - Music „Andalusian Love“ / von Dag Reinbott / https://www.terrasound.de Playa de Caleta, this is the beach where the famous scene was set. Halle Berry coming out of the blue water in her orange bikini and Pierce Brosnan as Agent 007 looking at her while drinking a Mohito... somewhere in the streets …
Cádiz
September 01- September 08, 2019; 1513 nm and 170 days after departure from La Rochelle the Cathedral of Cádiz Cádiz likes to call itself the oldest city in Europe. According to legend, Hercules was the founder, but history proved the founding of the city Gadir by the Phoenicians in around 1100 B.C. However it was …
Impressions of Sevilla
Me being soooo excited about the atlantic bonito🤣 On our first day , we went much too early to town the streets were still empty the houses often have great terraces a typical entrance with beautiful tiles at the walls the view to the quarter of "Triana" Church?- Sorry! At the entrance of Club Náutico …
Hard floors, Texan temperatures and river cruising
August 16- August 31, 2019; 1420 nm and 162 days after departure from La Rochelle It took us 4 days including 3 stops at night to reach Sevilla. Again we used the help from the current to go down the river Guadiana and then as well going up the Río Guadaquivir. One stop at each …
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Río Guadiana or anchoring in crazy tides
August 08 - August 13, 2019; 1329 nm and 144 days after departure from La Rochelle We spent almost one more week in Culatra after Jana left. We slowly rearranged Altimate and got ourselfes back to a two person set up. Meanwhile SY Saviour, our friends from La Rochelle, also arrived in Culatra. Of course …
SY Altimate 