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...
In light wind we started in Madeira for the 300 nautical miles to the Canary Islands. In the night the boat-speed even dropped to zero. But the next morning a whale appeared in the calm water. He sprayed a few times, then plunged into the depth, while he waved us with...
Interestingly we meet Christopher Columbus again and again. A neighbour in Ouistreham gave our boys a book on Columbus. In Baiona we could visit the reconstructed Pinta from inside. And in Porto Santo a feast was held in honour of Columbus. But first, we will talk...
Before leaving, we often asked ourselves when the best time was to cross Biscay. All factors should be right: wind, weather, waves and tides in Brest. No storm and no calm all over the route. Somehow we didn’t find three consecutive days where everything fit. It was...
Now we have been here in Le Havre for more than three weeks and our Bajka is getting blue-water-ready: wind pilot, solar cells, wind generator, watermaker, maststeps, safety netting, etc … The longer we work on the boat the better we understand her and the more...
