Monthly Archives: January 2019

26th January: After breakfast we wanted to find out what was wrong with our left engine. Dieter checked oil in the sail drive and in the engine and both were all right. That were good news! On the other side it meant that there had to be something around the propeller which caused the different…

23th January: At around 18 o'clock we achieved half of our way (455nm). In the evening the waves crashed again heavily under the boat. It was psyological terror and we decided to run the left engine. Nevertheless, we have to admit that the sky full of stars above the ocean is amazing!! 1000 of little…

Finally we got the right weather forecast to start with our biggest trip so far to cross half of the Atlantic to Cape Verde. We would like to point out that it was a really adventurous trip but wasn't dangerous at any time. 20th January 2019:           After a good breakfast…

Now it's time to tell you about our next steps we are going to take. Since we talked to a lot of different people the last weeks where we can go and which places are nice to visit we changed our plans several times... It was Dieter who suggested Claudi to rethink about crossing the…