🇬🇧 Around midday today we became sick and tired of the crazy and dangerous jet skis in Deep Bay and decided to weigh anchor. What was supposed to be a short 2-hour trip turned into a 5-hour bumpy ride. As we didn’t like the look of the place we had picked out as next destination …
🇬🇧 We are really enjoying Antigua. What incredible shades of blue and turquoise! And after every rainfall there is a magnificent rainbow. Meanwhile the kids have started to sail together. It’s too windy today but yesterday they enjoyed a sunset cruise! 🇩🇪 Antigua gefällt uns sehr gut. Was für unglaubliche Schattierungen von Blau und Türkis! …
🇬🇧 At our teachers‘ conference last night we decided to surprise the children this morning with a sailing project week. Falmouth harbour, Antigua is such a great place for it! So we got our Tiwal out. We started with a theory lesson and then the kids took turns in the water with one of us …
🇬🇧 Here in English Harbour, Antigua, we have witnessed the arrival of the last 2 rowing boats which have just crossed the Atlantic in 7×2 meters wide rowing boats with only a tiny cabin for shelter. One boat arrived at night (we stayed up to cheer the solo rower on for the last stretch) and …
🇬🇧 About last night…We ended up in Cloggy’s Bar, a Dutch themed pub with an incredible view onto all sorts of super yachts. Big, bigger and even bigger…The locally brewed ale was delicious, the kids got to watch some football whilst Chris and I managed to have a conversation 😉 – in short: we all …
🇬🇧 We left Martinique yesterday and sailed 150 nautical miles to Antigua. The highlight for Chris and I was seeing the arrival of the first two RORC 600 multihulls just outside English harbour, Antigua. Argo, the winner, also set up a new record!We left Martinique around 7.30 a.m. yesterday. In the afternoon just off the …
🇬🇧 We visited the town of Saint-Pierre and its museum, a memorial to the volcanic eruption of 1902. We were very moved by the exhibits shown as well as by the witness accounts retold via audioguides. On the photos you can see the ruins of the theater, the town’s prison (which became somehow legendary because …
🇬🇧 A couple of days ago we sailed from the Presqu’ile de Caravelle on the East to Saint Pierre on the West side of Martinique. The landscape in the North and Northwest coast was so beautiful and wild that the children decided to get their pencils out, especially all their shades of green, and to …
We are currently exploring the East coast of Martinique. There are lots of shallow reefs with narrow passages here and most sailors skip this side of the island. We think they are wrong! We are practically by ourselves here. After a quick stand-up paddle trip to the sand bank, we snorkelled in the reef and …
🇬🇧 We have been „grounded“ in Le Marin marina for the past week as repair works had to be effected on our boat. We tried.to be off the boat/building site as much as possible. We visited the magnificent Balata garden, went to a beautiful beach and took a walk through the mangroves on Presqu’ile de …