Here in New Zealand a lot is inverse: in the North it is warmer than in the South, the high pressures turn left and the cars drive on the left side. New Zealand is the antipode of Spain and the northern part even lies on Morocco. Here it is almost tropical. Here grows...
It was always our plan to sell Bajka at the end of the sailing trip. We also planned quite some time for this, because we wanted to sell her without a broker. In addition to our travel blog, we also used various forums and Facebook groups to find potential buyers....
Time had come to leave our beloved Tuamotus. So we set sail and left Fakarava with three other boats heading to Tahiti. The GRIB files showed a nice weather window with 15 knots of wind. However, the wind dropped completely, the swell remained and from time to time a...
After 500 miles of beam reaching we reached Raroia, as did Thor Heyerdahl, who landed there in 1947 with his Kontiki. Only at a distance of about 6 miles you can see the atoll with its palm trees, there are no mountains. During the night we had to slow down a bit, so...
For our blue water trip, we installed a Windpilot on our OVNI 435 in order to minimize energy consumption and to not depend on the electric autopilot only. Considerations for installing the Windpilot Pacific At the beginning we didn’t know what to do with the swim...
