Karin und Holger Binz auf Weltumsegelung mit dem Katamaran Rivercafe %

Merry Christmas

Dear friends, thank you for your loyalty and interest. We have enjoyed sharing our preparations with you and as departure gets closer, it will get more exiting every day. We…

Friday December 20th, 2019

200 days to go

Our last winter in Luxembourg The weather has turned gray. And cold. At night there was already the first frost. The trees have thrown off their leaves and in the evening…

Monday December 9th, 2019 1

Christmas time in the Caribbean

Change hot wine for rum punch I like Christmas. Okay, I know this is uncool, I’m a fossil because I’m a Christmas guy. To me Christmas is the most beautiful…

Sunday December 1st, 2019 1

Last Christmas

Go sailing – let it go. It’s Friday afternoon. A sentimental Friday. For the very last time in this house we took the Christmas decoration out of the boxes. It’s…

Friday November 15th, 2019 10

How much is it to sail around the world

About budgets, demands and reality It is one of the most frequent search queries about sailing: what does it cost to sail around the World? Before we left for our…

Tuesday October 29th, 2019

Welcoming friends on board

What makes a visit on board even more enjoyable My old friend Don, a basketball coach who has trained teams all over the world, is a wise man. He once…

Saturday October 19th, 2019 1

Extreme sailing contrast: Cat and Mono within one month

Can it be more extreme? Foreword by Karin: Speed is your friend. When I read Holger’s article, I thought: Well, there’s something else that needs to be explained. Let’s say…

Friday September 27th, 2019

Sailing throught the Brexit Chaos

How the Brexit Chaos affects 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 Brexit….

Saturday August 31st, 2019 1

300 days to go

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

Monday August 26th, 2019 2

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

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 ….