Hintergrund zur Reise der Rivercafe

Sailing throught the Brexit Chaos

How the Brexit Chaos annoys sailors and the maritime industry I’m totally into British humor. For 3 years now we have been regularly entertained by a stand-up comedy called…

Saturday August 31st, 2019 1

300 days to go

The empire strikes back – if it’s not overwhelmed. It starts in 42 weeks. Over 500 times I have written the number of remaining days in the steam of…

Monday August 26th, 2019

When is enough enough

How do you know you can go? It was a wonderful morning when I woke up in the small bay in St. Johns (USVI). We anchored in crystal clear, warm…

Thursday July 18th, 2019 1

400 days to go

About wine tastings, engines and Facebook. It will probably take significantly days less before we leave Luxembourg. In 400 days the Rivercafe is handed over and we put our heads…

Wednesday May 22nd, 2019

Dirty cruise industry – how to “dispose of” garbage

Fire in Paradise The cruise industry is booming – and struggling with its reputation as an environmental polluter. Rightly so. The marketing departments are bringing out well-sounding phrases about environmental…

Wednesday May 8th, 2019

Welcome KKoum

That’s how work is fun. She’s a beauty and freaking fast: The new KKoum, an Outremer 5X catamaran with 59 feet. A dream yacht. Our friend Jerome asked Ka for…

Saturday April 27th, 2019

450 days – bureaucracy does not like world travelers

Curious experiences with administrations On my to-do list, I’ve been working on bureaucratic stuff for the past 50 days. I had to learn that one virtually does not exist as…

Friday April 5th, 2019 1

About anchoring in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean

About needless conversations and anchor chains If I feel like conducting a useless conversation, I tell a townie that I’m going to sail around the world from next year on….

Friday March 15th, 2019

Another 500 days – of sleepless nights and the Galapagos of Brazi

Still 500 days to go. The 1st of July of the next year is slowly but steady approaching but we still have to survive one winter. The winter gray is…

Monday February 11th, 2019

Travel acquaintances

Travel acquaintances The acquaintances and friendships that one concludes on trips – travel acquaintances – are not of long duration. Thats what I thought. Before I made acquaintances and friendships…

Monday January 21st, 2019

Our travel route? The World.

We are avowed warm-weather sailors and our way around the world will guide us through the warm regions only. From Cape Town, our 5,700 nm maiden voyage will take us along Namibia, St. Helena and Ascension Island, past the coast of Brazil to Barbados. The first 2-3 years we want to sail the Caribbean, the Bahamas and the USA. Then we think of the Panama Canal. In the Pacific we are planning with the US West Coast and Hawaii, before we sail for the second time in Polynesia. And then let’s have a look. Indonesia alone has 17,000 islands ….