Karin und Holger Binz auf Weltumsegelung mit dem Katamaran Rivercafe %

Sailing tales for children

What do you actually do all day long? Such kind of questions are asked by many acquaintances and friends. You can’t sail all day long. No, admittedly, we do not…

Friday August 28th, 2020 3

Ascension calling

Stopping in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean On August19 at 2:30 p.m. Kitty, the incredibly helpful Harbor Master of Ascension Island informed us that our guys have arrived in…

Thursday August 20th, 2020 10

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

How routing offshore works

And then everything turns out differently While our Rivercafe makes its way north through the waves of the South Atlantic, this is a good opportunity to talk a little bit…

Friday August 7th, 2020

“We are officially cleared to depart”

Rivercafe is on its way That was the most beautiful sentence I have heard in a long time. “We are ready to go”. Our Captain Gary got clearance for his…

Sunday August 2nd, 2020 7

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

Farewell

Thank you for the wonderful goodbye. We set off and hopefully meet again on warm islands under palm trees and on beautiful beaches. So this is not really a farewell,…

Wednesday June 17th, 2020 2

Before we leave this country…

Villmols merci* Luxembourg *Villmols merci = thanks a lot in Luxembourgish There’s a lot of good news. Our Rivercafe is ready and as planned ready for handover on 1.7.20. Only…

Thursday June 4th, 2020 2

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 ….