Wake up, pay attention to John’s description of latest events and weather conditions, keep an eye on passing boats on AIS and within eyesigh

Extract of the Logbook for the sailing trip from Madeira, Cascais, Portugal 608 nautical miles in 105 hours

30 minutes have passed since the last VHF communication and I still feel the tears starting to flood my eyes, my stomach a small ball. This

The moment you realise life can get extremely difficult and that we may go through problems when reentering Europe with Ella and hope for th

Pretty much all the sailing we've been doing on The Dream qualifies as offshore passage but I think the difference between doing a 2-day

Sometimes when I'm doing something absolutely ordinary like getting a glass of water I think I'm going to all of sudden just wake up

Extract of the Logbook for the sailing trip from Rabat, Morocco to Madeira, Portugal 488 nautical miles in 72 hours

Power, electrical power, is the all-time battle and headache of any long-term sailor, of course, we can plug to shore in the marina or run t

Preparing to bring Ella to Morocco was strangely easy in the sense that it seems we already have all necessary but at the same nerve wrackin

It's a very well weather protected marina. Its position upriver eliminates any influence of the swell and provides good protection from

Mooring is done against the wall between the fishing port and the ferry port. In between other boats, 2 coast guard big cruisers rafted up t

So, here's the thing I'm actually not afraid of going sailing. I mean, I am a little bit but at the same time, I'm not. What I r

After three days in Tangier, moored to a greasy wall in a fishy smell harbour with two other boats rafted up to us we felt it was time for u

Arriving in Morocco using the Fishing port of Tangier as the first port of call was quite an experience, the smells, the sounds, etc. Checki

Extract of the Logbook for the sailing trip from Tangier to Rabat, Morocco. 142 nautical miles in 26 hours

Whenever we mentioned we were coming to Morocco, people would raise their eyebrows and say things like: it's a dangerous place, full of

Extract of the Logbook for the sailing trip from Gibraltar to Tangier, Morocco. Crossing the Strait of Gibraltar. 46 nautical miles in 7 ho

We're here, we made it and we were treated the entire voyage with great views, not that the views were new to our eyes but the colours i

First, we partied with the locals on their special day, so now it was time to visit the most iconic attraction of Gibraltar, the little monk

It's been 25 days since we arrived Gibraltar and that means it has been another 25 days of work on our upgrades, provisioning and sourci