November 06 - November 22, 2019; 2386 nm and 244 days after departure from La Rochelle Why is it always so hard to get motivated to write after having visitors aboard? Maybe because we felt like being on holidays? Probably because we were so happy to have the kid around and just needed to get …
October 27 - November 06, 2019; 2386 nm and 229 days after departure from La Rochelle Great news! Jana will visit us again. Yippeeeeee.🙃 She found her first job and as she still has some time left before she starts, she decided to jump in a plane to see us. Of course we were super …
October 11 - October 27, 2019; 2339 nm and 219 days after departure from La Rochelle Isn't it funny? Cows are strolling at the high plateau at Madeiras centre like the cows do in the alps. Big poohs showing their tracks. 😉 And when you need to pass them they cross the streets in a …
Continue reading Busy weeks in Quinta do Lore with lazy and energetic breaks
October 01 - October 11, 2019; 2306 nm and 203 days after departure from La Rochelle Luis arrived first of October around 1:30 in the morning. We were of course very excited but also had some trouble not to fall asleep before his arrival at this time of day. So we did, well I can't …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Continue reading Tangier, a completely different culture yet so close to Europe
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 …
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 …
Continue reading Hard floors, Texan temperatures and river cruising
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 …
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