At 1530 the hook was down in 15 m of water with 65 m of chain. It slipped a bit before it dug in and stood my test. Now MaRe hangs in 12 – 15 KN of wind and swings gently a few degrees around. The wind is nice because it will be cool in…

It’s shortly after 0400, the time I started my second night watch duty. Log book is written and I’m sitting on the cockpit. The half-moon is shining through scattered smaller high up altocumulus clouds looking like cotton-wool balls scattered on the nightly sky. Suddenly they got blown away. Larger clouds, with cirrus like streaks are…

While we walked down the road towards the temple, we wanted to visit, we saw the hardware store we were told that they sell coconuts scraper. As Tobias wants to try also using coconuts for cooking, thus we bought one. It only needs to be mounted on a board to be able to sit upon…

As Tobias came back much earlier today and could also get vegetables, etc. I decided to depart to Port Villa already today The sail is about 26 h, thus with a departure time of 1200, we will arrive at 1400 next day and we’ve still daylight for anchoring. Now at 1400 we are well on…

The day before yesterday, we could make inbound clearance. The waves were subdued a bit. On the satellite map I found a canal through the reef to beach in a smaller bay next to the main bay. That’s were i wanted to try it. As I couldn’t reach any of the officials on VHF CH…

When we dropped the hook on Saturday in the Lenakel Bay of Tanna Island the sea was almost dead flat. It was glassy with few small wavelets. I could see our anchor chain at 11 m down on the sea bottom We could not make inbound clearance because it was Saturday. On Sunday however, the…

Normally, after MaRe is at anchor, I write immediately a short note that we safely arrived and MaRe is secured on her hook. I remember I wanted to do it yesterday as well. But then the adrenalin level of sailing and especially of going into a new bay with limited possibilities, went down and I…

Yesterday morning at 0400 when I started my last night watch duty, we discussed the wind and what to do. The wind went down to 7 – 8 KN TWS and it turned to ENE. I decided to get about 20 – 30 off of the course and recover it at daylight by sailing faster…

Today Tobias finally got his fish. A big one! It was a fight! I had to give Tobias the fighting belt. To reduce the tension on the fishing line, I furled the genoa by roughly one half. Then MaRe’s speed was down to 3 – 3.5 KN. In the meantime the mahi-mahi went from STB…

The night of the 30. Sep – 01. Oct was really quiet. I could do a lot of readings on next destinations and a bit PC work. The wind was not strong and constant in direction. In the morning hours it turned a bit more SE and we could set the main sail. As winds…