The person on watch was the first who saw in the early morning light Sint Maarten ahead and St. Barthelemy roughly at WSW. Next it was me. Then one by one came out of the cabin and looked at the horizon. Now I’m really only writing about me and my impression. I still can’t believe…

There is especially the Offshore App, which I’m using to get weather information, let you see where we are and read my notes about life on board. I tried all kind of possibilities to get the upload of notes running again. It simply will not work. Hopefully tomorrow I get information from PredictWind’s support. I…

195 NM was indicated when I start writing this note. At the end it will be less. As the wind blows mainly from ENE, the swell developed over the last days to one from ENE. Having to sail an averaged COG of 277 deg, today’s ride is a bit bumpy. G needed to bake bread,…

This morning I woke up as usual, went to the cockpit, and talked with A during his watch. We were sitting on port side rest area watched the sea and the clouds illuminated by the still bright moon. All is dream in infinite number shades of grey – not only 50. On top of that…

G caught his dolphinfish no. 6. A hauled it in, then G took over again. I got an important lecture from G on the way to cut the bones out, peel the skin and the side organs. An important thing I also learned is the importance of a good Japanese fish knife. As my Japanese…

What I was afraid that can happen, is happening now. Iridium emails don’t work. Also up and downloads here don’t work currently. I try all possible to get things running again. Beside above we are sailing pretty fast towards Sint Maarten.

Until we have a solution for the currently not working upload on tracking notes, I will continue to write notes because the problem will be solved one day. The sooner the better. Today it’s a typical trade wind sailing day. Wind perfectly with 4 – 6 Bft from E, thus we are on a fast…

PredictWind found the bug and is working on the fix. In the meantime I can upload all the notes I wrote along our sail using normal internet and no satellite connection. The date in the title is the date, I wrote the note. ****** In the late morning hours, the wind became unstable, caused by…

Looking at the weather forecast this morning, we decided to keep sailing on the P-tack. Current plan – it can change with the weather forecast – is to continue this way until about 17 deg N. Then we will go back on the S-tack. As of Wednesday afternoon we expect 20+ kn wind from E.…

Yesterday evening, before going for reef 2 for the night, we discussed the upcoming weather situation. If we continue on the S-tack, (starboard tack, German ” Backbordburg”), we have a high probability to get winds of only 10 kn but we sail a bit more directly towards Sint Maarten. If we go on the P-tack…