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The enchanted islands of Galapagos

October 18, 2024

Santa Cruz It´s not prohibited to take your own dinghy to the pier in the bay of Santa Cruz, but it is not recommended because your dinghy will soon be occupied by sea lions and since the taxi boats are only one dollar per ride and the…

Sailing across the equator to Galapagos

Tricky decision Long time in advance we had to make the decision whether or not we were going to stop at the Galapagos while sailing to the Marquesas. It was one of the harder decisions to make, since the bureaucracy is quite demanding and the expenses…

Panama Canal

Shelter Bay Marina After ten hours of nice beam reach sailing, we are arriving to Shelter Bay Marina in Panama on Friday evening February the second. We are welcomed into a vivid sailing community with sailors crossing the Panama Canal from the Pacific …

Guna Yala

Guna Yala – San Blas Ever since we started to plan our journey many years ago, we heard that the San Blas Islands in the Archipelago of Panama would be a place almost like paradise. We left Aruba together with our buddyboat Ahlam at dawn and with with f…

Sailing in the Caribbean St Barths, St Martin and Aruba

Saint-Barthélemy Suddenly back to double handed sailing, we set the course on St Barths. This island has been well known to us for a long time since it belonged to Sweden between 1784-1878. We had heard that the street signs would be in Swedish, and som…

Sailing in the Caribbean Guadeloupe and Antigua

Marie Galante (Guadeloupe) We have tried to sail to the island Marie Galante of Guadeloupe in other seasons, but the winds have not been favorable. Now the winds were perfect and after we had cleared out of Portsmouth, Kish joined us on the six-hour sm…

Sailing in the Caribbean Carriacou, Bequia and Dominica

Early December it was time for us to sail west and return to the Caribbean Islands that we had visited in 2021 on our first Atlantic crossing with our previous boat, Ydalir II (www.wavelength.nu). We had a good sail to Carriacou and anchored in the w…

Sailing in the Caribbean – Barbados

February 2, 2024

Barbados Bridgetown On November the 23rd at 8AM we drop our anchor in Carlisle Bay. We are advised to go with our dinghy to the big commercial port to clear in to customs and immigration. We call the port officer on VHF and ask for permission to drive…

Yaghans 11th Atlantic crossing

November 26, 2023

We are so happy to witness Yaghans seaworthiness under her 11th Atlantic crossing. Yaghan is happily romping along in the steady following winds, behaving just like a horse livening up when smelling the green grass on the fresh spring f…

Waving from the Atlantic Ocean

November 13, 2023

This is day 4 on the Atlantic Ocean, sailing from Mindelo, Cape Verde to Bridgetown , Barbados. We have sailed 500 NM wing on wing since we heaved the sails and connected the whisker pole on Friday the 10th of November. With more than three meters high…