St. Lucia
The season finale and anchor buoy experience Sailing is more fun the more time you have. Then you can just wait out unpleasant weather and only sail on when conditions are good. At the weekend, such unpleasant weather […]
Martinique
Beautiful Martinique – not welcoming Martinique It was much too short, our stay in Dominica. At sunrise at 5:30 a.m. we left Prince Rupert Bay with a glassy sea. Our 55 nm route to Martinique took us 22
Guadeloupe: swimming, snorkelling, diving
Under water for days Our battered mood after our arrival in Guadeloupe improved amazingly quickly. It’s impressing how the change from a hostile to a friendly nature affects the human psyche. The first night we were still very
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Nevis and Montserrat
Strange things have happened to us Our journey continues. From St. Barth we wanted to go to St. Kitts & Nevis (55nm), to Montserrat (35 nm) and finally to Guadeloupe (55nnm). Each stretch a day trip. So we
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St. Barth
How the Ukraine War affects St. Barth We arrived for the last time in Gustavia, the capital of St. Barth. Anchoring is never pleasant here, it is too crowded in the anchorage and even more unprotected from wind
Sailing with kids
Three weeks with five people on board A few days before the return trip to Germany, Henri and Hannah sat at the stern of the Rivercafe and made plans how they could manage to stay on board with
Kids on board
Family visit Our friends left us on Saturday and we had 2 days to do mountains of laundry until our daughter and grandchildren landed on Monday. Laundry is less trivial on a vessel than on land. Our watermaker
Visit from friends
St. Martin and St. Barth For a few days we lay at anchor in Marigot Bay in St. Martin, waiting for only the second visit of our trip (due to C19): our old friends Vera and Marc with
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Nightsailing – Daysailing
Farewell to the Virgin Islands After two beautiful but unusually windy months in the Virgin Islands, it was time to leave. The Spanish, American and British Virgin Islands are wonderful islands well worth the arduous journey from the
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