The day before yesterday when my bread was ready for the last 2 h rest. I jumped the tender an meet OBM and Nik at the pier where I dropped them. Seeing their faces I saw they love the tiny island of Nicaragua. They welcome me with an ice cream; my the second one since…

Yesterday’s sunset was incredible. A full power concert of all colors, which can appear in a sunset. And the clouds with huge formation and filigrane elements were drums and percussion instruments. This was followed by full moon night with lots of clouds only loosely connected to each other allowing the moon to shine down on…

It seems that my sailing direction approach could work, BUT, where is the wind speed I need? Who stole the wind? First we needed to get the gennaker down because the wind not want to come back again. Ok. Fine. We use the engines. Sailing conditions set to >7 kn of wind for > 10…

In the morning light the anchorage begin the reef looked completely different. The grey of the water under a sky with dark clouds and no sun hole in between was replaced by a color with lots of blue mixed into it. The emerald water just behind the reef was brighter. It called OBM and me…

On the 13th, we reached our WPT “Honduras E” and turned to the next WPT “Nicaragua E” with a nice sailing speed. The time on board was very relaxed. I sat with OBM at the bow and talked. I also had my conversations with Nik. Our conversations very often are about people from F-bach. Due…

After partially very fast sailing last night, Poseidon the God of the Seas slows us down far away from his Greek waters in the middle of the Caribbean. On the last few miles to our WPT “Honduras E” we have a current of more than 2 kn against us. Frustrating!. The current is a part…

Yesterday, shortly before 2200, we reached the trigger points at which I wanted to be woke up. Nik woke me up to tell me that we have more then 20 kn TWS, and the STW is 11.5 kn. I was up in a fraction of a second. OBM, who was ready to start the 2200…

I did not believe it but in the Caribbean I caught already daily at least one vegan fish! It is so easy that it is no fun anymore to catch a non-vegan fish. The vegan fishes are the saragossum grass. It is unbelievable how much of this grass is drifting in this area of of…

Yes, the right wind is back! Yes, we are sailing again! Yes, Nik lost her seasickness! After motoring for a day and night and winds of 3 – 4 Bft only, I looked this morning for quite a while into alternative routes allowing us to speed up using the gennaker. The routing is a bit…

Just had 3 big squall ahead of MaRe. Squalls have their own wind system and can sometimes have winds with up to 30 kn. Winds like these are in the range of a strong breeze to a gale. On top of this they can dump lots of rain. Today, I was lucky! One squall just…