Kategorie: HRC reisverslagen

We have been in Tahiti for more than 3 months now! We actually arrived here by accident, because the French government did not want to have all those sailing boats straying through Polynesia … The confinement that came into effect from mid-March 2020 is formally over for us. In a few days, intercontinental jets from […]

Slowly, and very quietly, the lockdown is beginning to be eased here in French Polynesia. A local court had ruled a while ago that the curfew that had been imposed was not legal, which led to some more evening traffic. Then we were allowed to walk around without the special French government form you first […]

  Nach einigen „Snacks“, die während unserer turbulenten vier Wochen auf See zwischen den Galapagos-Inseln und Tahiti geschrieben wurden, ist es wieder Zeit für einen gewöhnlichen, langen Artikel. Ich schaue auf den Kalender und stelle zu meinem Entsetzen fest, dass wir seit 24 Tagen in Tahiti sind. Wie schnell die Tage vergehen, vor allem, wenn […]

Aufgrund des Coronavirus COVID-19 durften wir auf den Marquesas-Inseln nicht an Land gehen und erhielten de facto den Befehl, entlang des Tuomotu-Archipels nach Papeete auf Tahiti zu segeln, um dort zu landen. Um die Ausbreitung des Coronavirus zu verhindern, herrscht auf Tahiti eine strenge Ausgangssperre. Auch Alkohol wird nicht mehr verkauft – ein einzigartiges Phänomen […]

Mit dem Corona-Virus leben wir in ereignisreichen Zeiten. Jeden Tag erhalten wir über den World Cruising Club, der die World ARC-Reise unterstützt, ein neues Update. Und jeden Tag werden die Nachrichten etwas düsterer als am Vortag. Wir haben „Update Nr. 11“ erhalten und es ist wirklich keine fröhliche Literatur. Nicht, dass wir uns beschweren, denn […]

Seit fast zwei Wochen segeln wir bei grauem und regnerischem Wetter von den Galapagos-Inseln zu den Marquesas-Inseln. Ist dies tropisches Segeln? Es hätte genauso gut der Ärmelkanal sein können, so düster Tag und Nacht während dieser Etappe unserer Weltreise! Es begann jedoch sehr schön, als wir Puerto Ayorain de Galapagos verließen. Es stimmt, dass der […]

We all know the Galapagos Islands from the documentaries by Jacques Cousteau or the National Geographic. There’s nothing new that we could add to those impressive images! It is a fantastic travel destination the HRC house flag is now proudly flying in our mast. The first HRC house flag in the southern hemisphere ??? Between […]

On the Atlantic side, Shelter Bay marina, once an American base, is hidden behind a long breakwater that protects the Panama Canal against wind and currents. It is where the World ARC (WARC) fleet is prepared for the „Transit“ of the Canal. On both sides, you need to pass through 3 locks: three chambers up […]

Make a circumnavigation with your yacht and you will always encounter new and unexpected surprises and discoveries. After Santa Marta in Columbia, I didn’t think there’d be much to write about our trip until going through the Panama Canal. But no; we saw lots of new things. So here’s a short piece about the leg […]

Saturday 11th January 2020 saw the departure from Rodney Bay marina in Saint Lucia of the 2020-21 World ARC. 34 boats crossed the line to set off on a trip just over 820 miles to Santa Marta in Columbia. During the entire preparatory period in St. Lucia the weather had been excellent, punctuated by the […]

The ARC-organisation had prepared two beautiful excursions for us in the Cape Verde Islands; the first one was an island tour of Sao Miguel, the island with Mindelo as it capital. The second excursion was a visit to Santo Antao, a neighbouring island which contrary to the dry Sao Miguel is a green and luscious […]

Cold, cold, cold and grey, grey, grey: that would be a good summary of our first ARC Plus leg from Las Palmas to Mindelo – 950 miles (860 in a straight line) and 6 full days at sea. Moreover, there was a lot of wind during the first 3 days of this trip. Nice for […]

From Madeira to Lanzarote is not that far – the distance to be covered actually fits onto a single British Admiralty chart N°3133! It’s only two days sailing: just the time you need to start to get used to living on the high seas. Again I had overestimated the time needed, and we had to […]

If one thing has become clear to me during our travels across the Atlantic Ocean – and I imagine that the Pacific or Indian Ocean will be no different – your ship will always be asking for „more“. When we left Bruinisse, I thought we had all the necessary things on board and that nothing […]

After 11 months of extensive winter work on the boat, we finally left Bruinisse early on Thursday morning 1stAugust 2019. Our boat-handling was a little rusty despite a number of test sails on the Grevelingen meer and our participation in the successful Nova-HRC trip to Zierikzee. Moreover, we had planned our „escape route“ to the […]