Karin und Holger Binz auf Weltumsegelung an Bord der Rivercafe

Jan4 2018 diary – I will miss you guys · people

I will miss you There is still some time left before we set sails. Over a year. But the idea of being separated is already set. The message of I…

Saturday January 5th, 2019

18 months to go

Trimming down the pounds After the turn of the year, our final year in Luxembourg has arrived. From now on we can finally talk about the departure “next year”. That…

Monday December 31st, 2018

Book list for lonely sailing

Which book do you take to a lonely island? Well here it comes to a topic in german language as I read most of the books in german language. So…

Saturday December 29th, 2018

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Dec31 diary – Leaving a Life · Material

Let it go – leaving a life What a dramatic title. I know, but here are the alternatives: Leaving the house – is not quite true, because it is much…

Saturday December 29th, 2018

Territorial loneliness

How do you explain loneliness? What is it about? Admittedly, I had my own idea of loneliness. I have often felt lonely in my life. It was a common topic…

Monday December 3rd, 2018

Joining the ARC for an Atlantic crossing – cowardly or smart?

Sailing alone or with a rally across the Atlantic? In 1986, blue-water guru Jimmy Cornell organized the first ARC – the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers. He hit a nerve with…

Friday November 30th, 2018

600 to go

Less than 600 days to freedom. It was 5 months ago since we signed the Leopard contract. 19 months and 22 days left us until delivery – not that I…

Tuesday November 6th, 2018

Cash and banking solutions for travellers

Cash free of charge Even before our time as sailors we travelled a lot. Over 100 countries are on our list. It has always been an issue how to manage…

Monday October 29th, 2018

A Leopard 45 catamaran becomes the “Rivercafe”

Celebration!!! We have signed. Delivery date: July 2020. Fantastic, finally we will go again. I have to digress briefly, to the places we’ll see and see again with the Rivercafe….

Sunday August 26th, 2018 1

Why choosing a Leopard?

The new “Rivercafe” will be a Leopard 45. After 6 months of research, a few trips and a few pounds of coffee, we knew what the right boat was for…

Friday August 24th, 2018 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 5,000-mile 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 ….