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Discovering Cape Verde

Life Artists We are just at our stopover in the marina of Mindelo, the capital of Sao Vincente in the Cape Verde Islands. Since days we are ventilated by a…

Thursday November 19th, 2020 8

Approching Cape Verde

And it always happens at night At the start of a rally it is so busy that you don’t have time to feel like Columbus. What a pity, because we…

Sunday November 15th, 2020 7

What are we eating today?

Provisioning It’s now a year ago, that I had already finished my provisioning list. Last autumn, when it was getting grey and we couldn’t talk often enough about the new…

Saturday October 31st, 2020

Boarding complete

One more week to go As expected time flies in Las Palmas. There are only two important things to do on board before leaving on Nov11. A leaking window has…

Friday October 30th, 2020 1

Back to the blue water life

ARC+ ahead of us We slowly get back into the groove. It is normal again that “right” means starboard and the kitchen is called galley. Our German speaking share is…

Friday October 23rd, 2020 1

Ups and downs in pre-paradise

The first week on board “Honey, it’s not what you think.” This is usually used in a different context, but it hits our first week quite well. It was very…

Friday September 25th, 2020 1

Saint Helena

The toughest part is done * On Friday morning the Rivercafe moored at the mooring buoys off St. James, the capital of the British island of Saint Helena. The first…

Friday August 14th, 2020 8

The miracle of the 23

Only 5,200 nm to Rivercafe Adieu Rhein, bienvenue “La Mer”. Since we replaced the Rhine by the sea a week ago, everything is back on track. And it’s the real…

Sunday July 26th, 2020 1

Dark side of the moon

And suddenly the sun comes up Part one – The dark side: I look out the window of our hotel in Mainz (GER) and see the Rhine. That actually sounds…

Thursday July 16th, 2020 12

The odyssey before the journey

Dear Mr. President Ramaphosa Today the number 1 was written in the steam at the shower door and tomorrow we should take the plane to Cape Town. We worked so…

Tuesday June 30th, 2020 20

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 ….