SV Blue Pearl : a Dutch family sailing
(By Joline. Logged in under the wrong name while posting, ugh). Unless something unforeseen happens -always a possibility- tonight marks our last night before actually crossing the Atlantic! We are currently planning to make landfall on the Salvation’s Islands, French Guyana, before sailing on to Surinam. I’m not quite sure …
even though the wind looks pretty good for the next few days the waves, and more importantly the wave direction, are not …
When we left Gran Canaria we had trouble picking up the anchor. Somehow the line of our anchor buoy got itself …
See how we are doing after flying to Almerimar, Spain after leaving the Netherlands behind! A lot of unpacking, de-stressing and a …
And I’m feeling the nerves! We’re facing an 800 nautical mile passage, our longest passage to date. I’m nervous and excited. I’m …
Deciding to go cruising and live on a sailboat is one thing, but getting ready to actually do so was something else. …
That we have to plan with the weather in mind, that’s something we are used to by now. That we sometimes have …
Testing our Iridium Go! Sattelite connection to see if we can make blog posts from he middle of the ocean and attach …
The last few weeks we have received several messages from other sailors wishing to visit Morocco and asking where we’ve …