“Great sailing!” was Dennis’ answer when I asked him to describe today in a short sentence. It was indeed a good description because we sailed from yesterday shortly after dinner non-stop. Early in the morning we changed the main sail from reef 2 to reef 1 to gain more speed. With this we sailed the…

This was the first night that all parameters to be checked by Tjasa during her watch stayed within their limits. A great sleeping period for me. And we made good progress towards our final WPT to go around the Galapagos: 6 deg S and 90 deg W. Once we have reach this point, we can…

After dinner we discussed the strategy for the night. With a wind of 5 KN or more for 20 min and only short dashes into the 4 KN range, we set sails. While talking about a few other things, we felt the wind is increasing. A quick check if this is caused by cloud or…

I’m not yet decided about the verb I should to describe what we are doing. Although we put her favorite dress, the colorful, light, a bit transparent, sexy, and showing female soft round curves on MaRe, she is not in the mood yet to sail. She is not standing still but moving. Would “creeping” or…

Until today MaRe’s speed record was 11.4 KN between Fuerte Ventura and Grand Canaria in October 2021. The earlier readers of this blog know it. Now the record is 17.3 KN! An some people call this the windless doldrums. MaRe just sailed 17.3 KN. The proof picture of the speed meter follows when we have…

Who still remembers this wonderful song? In the morning like today we sit in the cockpit and watch the sun going over the horizon, creating a warm and friendly atmosphere. The same time, the very, very, very weak breeze we have feels good, because it feels cool. It feels refreshing. Peaceful!. That’s most likely the…

With changing wind we gybed twice today. With the experience the Dennis an Tjasa gain it was not difficult. Than we had to get the gennaker down because a “fat” squall came. We simply used only the genoa for a short time until the squall was gone and the sky cleared from these surprising things.…

…we are sailing again. SOG is around 3.5 KN with the tide slowing us down by about 0.4 KN. Yes, it could be faster, but we are happy that we could get some wind from the monkey with the tin tool. Due to the no wind in the last days, the wind waves are about…

I’m on watch now. At the change of the watch, at 2300, we dressed MaRe in her night gown to see if we could reduce the negative drifting effect at least partially. Unfortunately, the attempt failed and i had get all sails down. So we are drifting again. Attempting to sail at 1 Bft wind…

MaRe’s own swimming pool opened today. Special features of MaRe’s swimming pool. – Only für crew members – Depth – more than 3000 m – Distance to the pool edges – tremendous but never had been measured. The crew obviously enjoyed the swim. As a crew member of MaRe you are entitled to use this…