January 21 - February 09, 2024; 12300 nm and 1786 days after departure from La Rochelle I was not keen on staying in a marina. Especially when thinking of a crappy one but for sure with our auto pilot issue it was easier and better than staying at anchor. Hell, I can't remember why I …
January 16 - January 21, 2024; 12300 nm and 1767 days after departure from La Rochelle What a detour! The direct trip to the DR from San Blas would have taken us about 750nm. The detour via Aruba, St. Martin, the Virgin Islands and PR took us 1750nm. Imagine that on land. That would be …
Continue reading Yeah! Dominican Republic, we finally made it!
January 02 - January 15, 2024; 12078 nm and 1761 days after departure from La Rochelle The weather gods kept their promises and let us fly on a beautiful first day of 2024 from St Croix to Culebra. (Culebra is an island, town and municipal of Puerto Rico (PR) and geographically part of the Spanish Virgin Islands. …
December 04 - January 02, 2024; 11882 nm and 1748 days after departure from La Rochelle Spectacular, a blast, it couldn't have been better. Fireworks everywhere and people celebrating the whole night through. Dancing, drinking, partying. Well that was at least what we were kind of expecting at New Year's Eve (NYE). We had spent …
Continue reading NYE-What a night at Frederiksted in St Croix!!!
November 14 - December 04, 2023; 11733 nm and 1719 days after departure from La Rochelle Oui très bien! Yep, you guessed right! We made it to a French island. We were back in Saint Martin. The paradise for cruisers who have been away from European groceries for a loooong time. There the (food addicted, …
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October 20 - November 14, 2023; 11164 nm and 1699 days after departure from La Rochelle Yeah, well, sometimes plans changes, don't they? Thanks to a huge tropical disturbance (initial stage of a potential hurricane) which seemed to head right in our way we ended up in Aruba. Who would have thought. It's the most …
Continue reading We made it!!! Just not to the DR but to Aruba
August 14 - October 20, 2023; 10522 nm and 1674 days after departure from La Rochelle. Even when I keep repeating myself... but boy time is flying, ain't it? Five weeks in Europe - gone just like that! Four weeks back in Panamá passed within a wink. Does aging make us feel that time is …
June 26 - August 13, 2023; 10424 nm and 1606 days after departure from La Rochelle. Funny names for adverse climatological episodes in San Blas. Fortunately in general those episodes are not common but can happen once in a while. At least so it was said in the books. I don't know if we just …
May 31 - June 26, 2023; 10347 nm and 1558 days after departure from La Rochelle. Off we were again. The second time we left Cartagena. Who would have thought that a year ago? Certainly not us! Anyhow, we enjoyed Cartagena again very much but after 5 weeks of bustling city life we were ready …
April 28 - May 30, 2023; 10059 nm and 1531 days after departure from La Rochelle. Ups... that previous version of the blog post went out too quickly. Hit the wrong button and no possibility to get the notification emails back again. Sorry for that but here is the final version now.It was great to …
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