N 05° 48.822 E 164° 28.008 … after writing – but not yet uploaded – my previous narrations, all sails are down and we are drifting in another calm of the NW pacific, less then 100 NM outside of Kosrae. That’s sailing as well!

N 05° 49.265 E 164° 30.548 … to hopp from the Majuro Atoll to Kosrae. About 500 NM trade wind sailing. Hoisting the genoa at the northern tip of Majuro, and furling it just outside of Kosrae. That’s the way the weather forecast looked when we started. However, it turned out differently. The whole time…

N 06° 04.148 E 165° 29.230 MaRe rocks around in a Kartoffelacker sea. (See glossary of terms. ) All sails down. Winds speed varies between 0 and 2.5 KN. The wind direction indicator dances a ongoing walz since about an hour and will most like continue for while more. The sea is almost glassy already…

As there a few new readers looking in my blog, I feel there is need to update and re-publish this glossary again. The lasted posting in this “Glossary” series is always an updated version of the previous “Glossary of terms”. New item is the round sail and here and there a typos corrected. I’m using…

N 06° 27.057 E 167° 26.565 The sea and the clouds are illuminated by the half moon we have tonight. The sky just above me is almost free a clouds. Only a few cotton ball like clouds are hanging around. One is just in front of the moon, dispersing the moon light, which creates light…

N 06° 29.753 E 168° 03.600 Just before or got dark, I decided to change the round sail for the genoa because the TWD changed to NE, forcing steering too much S of our needed course. We reach the limit of the round sail. So I decided to change the round sail for the genoa.…

N 06° 37.504 E 168° 34.546 Good point No 1 It started already last night. During my second watch from 0400 to 0700, I prepared dough for the next bread to be baked tonight after proofing it during the day on the fridge. I observed that a long cold proof makes a good bread. Good…

N 06° 59.553 E 170° 07.915 When sailing on course to Kosrae, the AWA fluctuates between 150 deg PRT and 150 deg STB. This makes the usage of genoa while staying on course difficult. Flying the gennaker is not an option because the TWS varied today already from 10-30 KN. Simple too much above the…

N 07° 05.960 E 170° 30.222 Last night we got hit by several squalls. Most of them stayed below 20 KN. The strongest one brought 30 KN vTWS. A few Chinese fishing boats bothered us. Beside this it was a normal night and we made good progress despite a current in the opposite direction.

N 07° 15.419 E 171° 01.287 At 1740 we casted the lines off 1 the mooring ball. Friends from SV Alicia, and SV Seal waved farewell. We first sailed with genoa inside the lagoon towards the pass. But then I used the engines additionally to get through the pass as early as possible. On the…