At 2330 we were out of Oshima Habu port. The way out was extremely difficult because of the poor cardinal signs, no clear red and green markers. Additionally the white lights at the shore. Tobi was at the bow to check the distance to shore, I used also the track of the way in to…

My youngest grandson will now say “Opa gaat weer stuiderballen”, which means “grandpa jumps like a super ball to another island”. Indeed I “jumped” in an overnight sail to (almost) Oshima. The wind was almost like forecasted. A bit weak in the middle though. At the beginning the ride was a pretty bumpy one. In…

Hachijoshima is an island, which was created by two volcanoes so close to each other that there is land connection between them. This is main flat part of the island; the airport is build in the middle. One of the volcanoes is called “Hachioji Fuji”. A road goes up to about to 650 m. From…

The main thing of the last days was the very strong wind we got. We had gusts of often above 30 KN in rare cases wind speed of 40 KN was displayed. We spent most of the time inside. However, we also could go for a drive at the island. Shigeo found some spots at…

Yesterday, we made a short drive with the little car we got to the other side of the flat part of Hachijoshima between its two volcanoes. But before we took off we stopped at the other side of the harbor basin at the fishermen association to buy a ‘kinmedai’, a type of snapper with gold…

In Chichi-Jima a 34 ft sailboat was moored behind us. It turned out the sailor is a Japanese sailing single handed. Kazuhide Takao is on his way from Shizuoka, not be far and west of Tokyo, to Nauru, a small island just 31 NM north of the equator, and south of the Gilbert and Marshall…

N 33° 07.916 E 139° 48.321 Yesterday we docked at safely in the harbor. It’s a harbor with very high walls and several basins going around several corners to reduce the swell. The last part of the approach was actually a tough bumpy ride because we had to sail against the waves at a certain…