Gran Canaria, Las Palmas
Preparations for the ARC+ are in full swing. Sunday we'll start to Cape Verde and then across the Atlantic to the Caribbean and St. Lucia. Here we are together: We…
Cascais to Canary Islands
Portugal is beautiful! Cascais is a nice coastal town with a beautiful old center, though quite hilly again. Souvenir shopping: a tea towel for the collection. That's the one: Outing…
At the Continent’s end
There's Land's End in England, the sea area here is called Finisterre. We have circumnavigated the coastal strip "Costa de la Muerte". No encouraging naming, sounds rather like adventure. Many…
Biscaya
Instead of one week we spent almost two weeks in La Rochelle (see below). The work in La Rochelle made slow progress, but the people from Neel worked well. In…
England to La Rochelle
Since our stay in Tor Bay the weather improved. We had nice sunshine and moderate wind. We sailed at a leisurely pace along the south coast of England from one…
Isle of Wight to Tor Bay
. In the Sandown Bay of the Isle of Wight we were well anchored when Mathias noticed that the bridle had come loose. In order to fix it back on,…