N 01° 32.651 E 172° 51.741 The sail back to Tarawa is not yet completed. We’ll reach the pass’ entry at around 1600-1700 h. During the night the wind was not to strong but shifted often between 80 and 100 deg. This required wind vane angle adjustments and decision on how much offset we need…

Two days ago, we went ashore after the morning rain clouds got empty. We took the tender to the pier like structure which turned out to be a good dinghy dock when using a stern anchor. We walked the street in NE direction. The sand/gravel road was hot because the shade of trees is missing.…

Because we experienced so many things in Butaritari I need too write again catching-ups. Yesterday and today we cleaned the hulls and then took off for Tarawa. There we do outbound clearance and head of for Majuro, our closest Port of Entry for the Marshall Islands.

N 03° 04.535 E 172° 46.721 It was raining in the morning cats and dogs. I had to do PC work and forgot to close the hatch on my cabine. When I discovered it, a four-letter word escaped several times my mouth. We wanted to go ashore but the train continued, and continued. I made…

Tuesday we did some fixes for Lisa & Nick. Tobi tried his best with the motorbike and I worked on illumination stuff. In the evening another pleasant dinner with Lisa & Nick until commander “tide” ordered us to go home. Manon and Stef left this morning early for Tarawa to make outbound clearance. They planned…

N 03° 04.516 E 172° 46.719 Sailing with the gennaker up to the NW corner of Abaiang was extremly pleasant. Almost no waves and a good wind . I would have liked to sail like this until Butaritari. However, at the NW corner of Abaiang, course needed to be changed too 000, full N. As…

Again a “Catching up’, because in the evenings I’m too tired to write my naration about the same day. Additionally, I had a problem with my Joplin app in which I’m writing my narrations before I upload them into the PredictWind Offshore App. This, I do for two reasons. First I have a backup of…

This morning we had to bid farewell to Lisa & Nick this morning and then prepared for departure to Butaritari. We could have stayed with the wonderful friends for more days but the weather window is good only today or on Monday or Tuesday. Too late for our sailing plans. As I had a synch-problem…

N 01° 48.150 E 173° 01.616 Yesterday we finally went ashore. First we stopped at our new neighbor boat, the Dutch SV “Long John Silver” of Stef and Manon. They are sailing since years and – only seen from our tender – they have a very sturdy aluminum boat. We could have talked with them…

N 01° 48.140 E 173° 01.620 It started raining in the morning. Not to heavy but a long rain. Visibility was limited. The atoll appeared in a different light. The atmosphere was different. No blue sky with bright white cumulus clouds on the sky. The sea still showed its light green. I used the rain…