Mallorca could start an export business of mosquitos and would still have plenty to provide anyone in the area! They invaded our boat and ou

To be read with a light spirit, humorous tone and especially not be taken too seriously.

It has been almost a year that we moved to The Dream. During that time Ella has lived only 6 months permanently on the yacht, 5 months last

Sailing with a dog is not easy and requires some preparation. At least for us, it did since our little princess is neither little neither a

We made our way to Cala Talamanca just behind the harbour, found a good spot in between the Posidonia seaweed patches and dropped our 85lb M

Extract of the Logbook for the sailing trip from Calpe to the Balearic Islands, Spain 68 nautical miles in 11 hours

Checking in Cartagena was not exactly easy, it’s a port of entry but Customs seem to be only used to handling the big cruisers and cargo shi

A simple marina without much interest, full of bird poo that they seemed to be cleaned. with a pressure hose a couple of days a week.

Extract of the Logbook for the sailing trip from Santa Pola to Calpe, Spain 68 nautical miles in 11.30 hours

Extract of the Logbook for the sailing trip from Cartagena to Santa Pola, Spain 66 nautical miles in 11.30 hours

Just a couple of months after we taught her to swim she was already venturing into quite deep waters and we would have to call her in, that’

Extract of the Logbook for the sailing trip from Gibraltar to Cartagena, Spain. 227 nautical miles in 35 hours

And then all of a sudden the wind changed direction from a beam reach to downwind with gusts up to 48 knots and SLAM The Dream heels to 30 d

If someone tells me again: "oh, you really should learn how to manoeuvre your boat without Bowthruster...", there’s a good chance

Checking in and out of Lisbon is in principle very easy, the marinas can arrange/assist for Customs Immigration to come to the office for th

Extract of the Logbook for the sailing trip from Vilamoura, Portugal to Gibraltar 151 nautical miles in 24 hours

Extract of the Logbook for the sailing trip from Cascais to Vilamoura. 151 nautical miles in 24 hours

After spending the months of European winter enjoying summer in Australia we are finally back at The Dream with a reasonable amount of tasks

After having to completely rebuild our rudder bearing we decided we needed the R-word REDUNDANCY and thus we started our search for a backup

We left Madeira mid-afternoon on the “tail” of the Volvo Ocean Race fleet. They had passed on the same route we were planning to do earlier