Karin und Holger Binz auf Weltumsegelung mit dem Katamaran Rivercafe %

Children’s book “World tour”, part 2

Lilli and Bello travel on The second part of Ka`s children`s book of the “world trip” is now online. The adventures of the sailing trip of the mouse Bello and…

Saturday January 16th, 2021

Bonjour La Martinique

A life almost without Covid St Lucia is perfectly situated for the introduction to the Antilles, not bad for a start. In my opinion, the islands become more and more…

Wednesday January 13th, 2021 4

The Long Road to Flow

or: Shitty Wedding Day Our daughter Jil once developed a great program in her human resources profession: How to flow. We have been waiting for such a flow for quite…

Tuesday January 5th, 2021 6

Merry Christmas – in the Winter Wonderland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLs2K4o2gOM

Thursday December 24th, 2020 3

Merry Christmas

Birthday and Christmas We are still in Marigot Bay in St Lucia and have decided to stay here until our spare parts for the watermaker and AIS have arrived and…

Thursday December 24th, 2020 2

Rivercafe wins ARC+ catamaran rallye

Beautiful St Lucia awakens It’s nice to wake up in the morning and see green hills, palm trees and birds. And it’s nice to sleep regularly again, not getting out…

Wednesday December 16th, 2020 8

Atlantic, part one

From Mindelo to the middle of the Atlantic And then we finally got going. After a long wait, the 17 remaining ARC+ vessels were able to start on Monday (23.11)….

Thursday December 10th, 2020

Atlantic, part two

From Mid-Atlantic to St Lucia Our almost epic odyssey has come to an end. We have arrived. In St. Lucia, in the Caribbean – at our destination. Almost half a…

Thursday December 10th, 2020 8

Hotel California Mindelo

The ARC+ fleet splits off Actually, we should have been on the Atlantic since Thursday and have the first 600 nm behind us. In fact we are still stuck in…

Monday November 23rd, 2020 3

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

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 ….