… the fish alarm rang! Dennis ran to the trolling rod and smiled the smile of his life. He had a fish on the hook. Carefully he pulled it in. I prepared gaff and pliers. Tjasa jumped out of her bed and came in night gown and camera in her hand to take videos and…

… as every day! At sunset we dressed MaRe in her “pajamas” to make her ready for the night. Just when we finished this task, we saw again mostly likely some smaller whales or very big dolphins. From the swimming behavior they could have been dolphins; from their size – 5 m body length –…

Katinka is sailing again!!! Due to the movements of the mast top, Ralf could fix a block at the mast top and runs temporarily the main halyard outside of the mast. With this he can reach Gambier Island and in join effort he will get a mast internal running main halyard. Congratulations Ralf for a…

We just discussed the situation on board. Dennis and Tjasa getting sadder every day and I can’t change that. What happened? Since we left Vista Mar Marina, Dennis tries from sunrise to sunset to catch a fish. He used already all lures on board. Lures, which were used when we caught a fish. But now…

Good morning from MaRe! We made good progress last night and just hoisted the gennaker to add as much speed as possible before the bl…. monkey with the tin tool steels the wind again. (I’m sure I’ll curse this monkey more often in the next days.) Our current position is 00 deg 12.7890 min N…

At 1129 (UTC -5) we crossed the equator at 00 00.0 n/s 086 38.426 w I thanked Poseidon for protecting MaRe and all her crews while she sailed in many seas of the northern hemisphere and I asked to protect her and all her crews in all the seas of the southern hemisphere she will…

… and a nice and relaxed day goes to the daylight end. In last red and orange light of the sun above the horizon we put on MaRe’s “pyjama”. She is not sneaky and wants everyday a fresh one. She wears the genoa almost always in full size, and the main sail in small reef…

No way that we deal with “Luftballone” on board of MaRe. But still we deal with the number “99”. Today we had a noon etmal of 99 NM. After having been sailing for days in weak an no wind area with etmals always below 70 NM today’s calculation result was just great. We did not…

At around 0730 Tjasa came out of her cabin well tempered. So I had nice surprise for her. “Let’s replace reef 2 in the main sail for reef 1 to gain speed”. As it is daylight we don’t need the safety measure of reef 2 any longer. Short recall on how to steer MaRe into…

… we have tonight! Since we were forced to change from gennaker to main sail & genoa yesterday, we are progressing pretty well due to more wind. First the squall helped us to sail quickly deeper into the stronger winds area. Then we sailed mostly east of the BTW to stay in this area. This…