Our batteries are full!!! Our gennaker is empty!!! We offer high quality 12 V electricity! Who delivers is wind? This morning, the glance out of the cabinet side window made my heart crying. Glassy sea. The nightmare of each, and we are sailors but now are “motor-boaters”. I’m watching the fuel tank and hope we…

If nothing happens, I wake up around 0200, get up have a look at the systems and talk for a while with B, who loves the “Hundewache”. (The literal translation is “dog watch” but I don’t know the English equivalent. Sorry. Its the watch, which starts at midnight and is considered to be toughest watch.)…

Today G saw an orange life vest drifting by. As we were running with our vibrators, we immediately turn around to get the life vest. We wondered if there is a name of vessel written on it. Additionally it’s a piece of plastic floating in the ocean and we wanted to take this out. No…

The deep blue until the white clouds at the far horizon was the scenery we enjoyed all day long. Temperature was warm but not hot. Then there was the request for a stop over to swim. Engines stopped. Safety line with a fender at the stern, swimming ladder out, and a dive into the Atlantic…

Thanks to all of you for keeping fingers crossed. However, since an hour we are using vibrators to push MaRe out of the calm. These Volvo Penta vibrators doing a good job. Positve side effect is the charging of the batteries. Beside the motor vibrations, it is also calm inside the boat. Reading, “napping”, and…

From PredictWind’s weather forecast we saw last night that we need to S to SW to escape the calm coming from E. Thus, safe sailing, we used only the genoa and sailed roughly SW. The wind was for most of the night not to weak and we had good progress. With the early sunlight we…

For quite a time we had only 3 Bft wind and expected that the wind goes down to 2, 1, 0… However, the wind increased and now we have again for quite a while a 4 Bft wind. MaRe runs with her genoa empowered with up to almost 7 kn. A pretty nicely surprising STW.…

Last night we sailed with almost no wind towards W. The weather forecast this morning (about 0430) indicated we need to go SW to escape the low to no wind area coming closer to us from ENE to E. So, with the early sunlight we set the gennaker and headed SW. After breakfast we looked…

Although G was very kindly requested to catch a tuna or something else, at the end he caught his biggest dolphinfish. Big enough for 2 – 3 meals was G’s first estimation. After a lazy sunny afternoon G had prepared a dolphinfish risotto and we were about to set the table, when the fishing rod…

As expected, we had a nice gennaker wind this morning. Thus, already at 0750 we changed the genoa for the gennaker resulting in more speed. Course was only changed a little bit to S. We first wanted to see the new weather forecast for final course decision. After breakfast, with the last preservative filled bread…