Atlantik – from Gibraltar to the Canaries, Cabo Verde, Barbados, Grenada, St. Vincent, St. Lucia, Martinique, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Bonaire, Curacao, Colombia and Panama
What a feeling when the door to the Pacific opens up in front of us! This huge ocean is waiting for us out there!
From Banedup in the San Blas Islands we sail west to Puerto Lindo and after some provisioning back to Chichime, Cayos Holandeses and Coco Bandeiro …
Stuck in Chichime
Well, the original plan was to get to know the “other San Blas”, where less tourists and a lot more traditional villages can …
“What, on Wednesday already? We will never make that!” I nervously shout out to Reto, when we tells me on Monday evening that we can …
With the first daylight we leave Santa Marta in direction to Panama.
Good idea, we find out soon, when we cross several logs and other rubbish, …
So we wait until Matthew and the heavy swell that it brings us have passed and have a look at Santa Marta in the meantime.
We …
So now we are sitting here in the Marina Santa Marta, the rain that Hurricane Matthew brings to the area is pouring down on us …
So in the last blog I did hope to get some more decent underwater photos.Well, since the equipment (camara and flash light) have not yet …
Since 2.5 weeks we really enjoy our time here in Bonaire. We enjoy to hop into the water and snorkel or dive right next to …
And how we enjoy it to be back in the water! From the nice slight shaking of the boat to the freedom of being able …
After checking all options of repair we decide to order 2 new saildrives for our engines. Since taking the old ones out is not too …
After the almost loss of one keel we find out about a ball that dropped from a bearing into the gearbox…
After 2 hard weeks working like crazy yesterday should have been the day to get our She San back into the water, well, it should …
So we decide to leave our Torqeedo outboard engine in the hands of Valentin from Uship and since we don’t want to spend more time …
And finally our next family visit arrives – Reto’s mom Felicitas and his younger son Fionn arrive with 3 hours delay from Paris – and …
And there we go, it is time to visit France and put up the Tricolore for the first time, since in the mediterannean it was …
We check out Grenada with dinghy and car, sail up to Carriacou and on to St.Vincent and St. Lucia
We spend some more days in the Carlisle Bay altough the swell coming around the south corner of Barbados shakes us though quite well and …
And it did seem long in the beginning! But in the end, it was only further and more days travelling then what we did before. …
We spend a few days getting to know Palmeira and Espargo which is a bit bigger than Palmeira and maybe already could be handled as …
So finally we were ready to leave the Canaries and the wind went into the right direction to make it possible, so we left La …
After Lanzarote we head on to Tenerife where we meet Lucka and Micke who just arrived the day before and have a appartment close to …
