Lucky as we are – sometimes, but not always – we got another series of squalls we could ride. Hope that there are more to come during the night.

This morning I got up at around 0530 because I couldn’t sleep anymore. It was Dennis’ watch. We talked and suddenly “smelt” the increasing wind. We checked wind direction and the course we need to sail plus we expected a weaker wind. Decision was made quickly. Gennaker up. With the gennaker we are running a…

Around 0300 Dennis woke me up because there was no wind anymore to move MaRe forward. We furled the genoa and MaRe drifts again. Fortunately a weak current moves us in the right direction. Laying in the boat i feel it’s movement caused by the swell rolling on to her. I also can hear the…

… sunset is preparing itself for putting the sun behind the horizon. I’m sitting in the cockpit, a bit exhausted from the work of the day and the attention for the boat and it’s crew. I do feel this always when I’m not alone on the boat. But during the day I took quite some…

Since we set the gennaker just at around 0730, we are sailing pretty constantly towards our WPT, being 417 NM ahead of us. Tjasa made a kind of palatschinke, a bit thicker and very delicious. First it was Tjasa and I who had “breakfast for two” (not “dinner for two). While we had marmalade and…

Especially for those living in the East of us. At around 0200, Tjasa who was on watch duty, disturbed my sweet dreams of a tiramisu, just to tell me that the wind is stable at around 7 KN and above. With such an information I even give up a tiramisu. Tjasa got a crash course…

I wonder if I can call is”summary of the day” when it’s still 5 h to go. Many things can happen. Squalls can pop up – that could be nice because we get at least wind for a little while. The wind goes further down and stays below 3 KN – then I definitely take…

Obviously by sailing. Otherwise very many ships would still be drifting in the oceans since centuries. So we are good sailors and started sailing at 1000. We did not achieve a speed record, but move on with around 3 KN in a wind of 4 – 6 KN AWS. Unfortunately, a squall at PRT and…

Since yesterday evening we are drifting at this wonderful spot of the Pacific Ocean with lots of water around us and clouds above us. These clouds brought us, just an hour ago, another squall with warm rain. Now the sun comes out and the almost glassy sea changes the color continuously. Dennis makes hot water,…

If I recall it right it was about 0200 when Dennis woke me up and said ” shower is ready”. I jumped up went into the cockpit and got my shower straight forward at the helm station. We were fully hit by a nice squall! Wind vane steering was not possible anymore. Thus, I had…