• Date: 2 May 2025
• Time: 0800 BT (UTC +2)
• Position: 53 00 9 N 002 36 4 E
• Course: 065 COG
• Speed: 7 SOG
• Wind: N 3 bft

Update by Federick

And suddenly, everything is still. First, the engine falls silent, then the generator. Quiet. After more than 80 hours of constant noise and vibration.

In the night we could set sail again, and now TWISTER glides at over six knots across a mirror-calm sea. We flies every sail— It feels like a miracle, as if an unseen force carries us over the water: the 35 meters and more than 20 tons of our tall ship, the passengers, the crew—our whole little world we’ve shared for over four weeks on the Atlantic Ocean.

Now we sail from the English coast to Holland, crossing the Channel from west to east. The bow wave ripples softly; otherwise, all is silent: no rattling rigging, no flapping sails— only the pure magic of the elements.

To experience this, maybe sometimes you need more than 80 hours of engine noise and vibration.