My summer holiday starts today

We´re off to Marqueses tonight. The sail should take around 4 weeks. So that is probably the next time you´ll hear from me. If you like following a dot on a map ;) http://www.winlink.org/dotnet/maps/PositionReportsDetail.aspx?callsign=KL2VC Keep the world in one piece while I´m away. Thanks! Peace!

Sail so far – 31 clicks

This requires patience. To select these I had to go thru 11 000 photos and delete some to make more space to my hard drive (which is full again). So I hope you have to patience as well. Thanks!

Tacking and Backing

So some of you might have checked our boats position (link in previous post). We hit the ground but not exactly where we thought it would happen. Our current location: Buenaventura, Colombia. We were advancing nicely but too strong winds (25-30 knots) straight in our face made going forward too difficult. Big storm was passing [...]

Main sail is up! Apparently it’s Semana Santa

Couple of days of work with the new main sail and now it’s good to go. Few more adjustments and veggie shopping and we’re off! If all goes well, on Monday this mainland will be just a memory – A big memory. It’s also Semana Santa, Latin Americas’ biggest religious happening and vacation week.