A few words from our amazing cook Frederick: We are coming closer—“only” some 540 miles until Faial, island of the Azores, where we plan to stay for one or two days—depending on the weather. Everything here on board depends on…
Today a few words from Maria: The concept of time is slowly changing. Instead of hours and dates, I now think in watch shifts. With the recent change in watches, now being on the 4 to 8 watch, I get…
Today, words of deckhand Nils: Is it dream or reality ? Standing on the deck and feeling this fresh cold breeze in the neck. Being aware that there is only water for days and days. The mighty ocean we sailed…
After a lovely afternoon of French chansons and happy vibes, we were treated with another astonishing sunset. We almost get used to it, but never quite enough. We still gather on the aft deck, postpone other tasks, and take a…
Sun’s up. Sail’s up. Sea’s calm. The beautiful thing about having an easterly course is that you sail towards the sun. If the sky is clear blue, like we have it now, the sun rises like a golden ball out…
Everybody is enjoying the sailing enormously. We had another beautiful night of sailing and spotting shooting stars. With the arrival of the first daylight of the morning, we took the reefs out of the main sail and schooner sail. All…
We are sailing! This morning at 0630 the wind came back even stronger than yesterday’s breeze. With the never-ending enthusiasm of all awake, we hoisted and trimmed the sails to get Twister into her rhythm. During yesterday’s morning watch from…
We continue our way to the wind under engine. This includes hoisting and lowering sails to train and to catch breeze when possible. Time under engine is used to learn about stars, clean the ship and dance on the aft…
Last night at 2000 o’clock, we had to put the engine on. We are now motorsailing our way to some fresh winds that will bring us to the Azores. In the meantime, the days are filled with yoga classes by…
