.Bocas del Toro is located on Isla Colon in the west part of Panama’s Atlantic coast. It is separated from the mainland by Bahia Almirante. By those two facts, the place is really remote and has a feel of being…
Another year, another hurricane season escape!
On April 4th, with the 2021 hurricane season approaching, my wife and I left Dallas for Freeport, Grand Bahamas to join our Super Maramu which was sitting there on the hard. We had to transport quite a large amount of…
Annapolis to the Bahamas
After a long year without much sailing due to the Covid-19 virus, we decided it was time to look ahead to the next sailing season. My hope was to be somewhere else other than Annapolis before the next hurricane season.…
Away from the Hurricane Zone! Making our way to Annapolis, MD
At the time, we were less than two months away from the 2020 North Atlantic hurricane season. Our hull insurance coverage requires us to be north of Cape Hatteras by June 1st. It’s about 500 or 700 NM all the…
Back to the USA – among the COVID-19 pandemic!
For most of our three week stay in the Dominican Republic, we were trying to figure out where to go or at least how to reach the US coasts. Most of the surrounding Caribbean nations were already in lockdown or…
Dominica
Roseau We got some greatest sailing this day! There was a broad reach at around 15 knots of wind and a smooth sea so we sailed at around 7-8 knots with hardly any heel! Soon, we spotted the outline of…
Gibraltar with Wojtek and Andrzej
After two short hops with an overnight anchoring at Lagos Bay, we reached Gibraltar or rather its Spanish counterpart, La Línea de la Concepción. We docked at Alcaidesa Marina on November 1st, 2019. The stopover there was much needed as…
Lisbon
In the morning of the October 5th, 2019, we cast off of Lagos Bay to sail further north to Lisbon. By the afternoon of the next day, we reached Cascais, a town and marina at the northern shore of…
Mahón to Alicante, Spain
We left hospitable and beautiful Mahón taking course to Alicante, sailing around the southern shores of the Balearic Islands: Mallorca and Ibiza. We started with nice and sunny weather which followed us all the way to Alicante. Sailing…
We set sails, finally, for good!
After all this time of preparations and re-fits, the boat seemed ready to be taken out to sea. Sunday September 8 we set up sails in the direction of Playa Santa Cristina, Spain with intention to anchor there for a…