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It's already 6 months ago that we were in Arrecife/Canary Island/Spain. Since then we sailed to Capo Verde, Senegal, Gambia and back to capo verde. In December 2018 we crossed the Atlantic Ocean for the

After Portugal and Marocco we are now back in spain: Arrecife/Lanzarote. It is a really great Island. In 2011 we sailed already in this area and visited with a charter yacht all Islands except of Lanzarote

After having every broken part repaired and back in place we are heading for Morocco. From Lagos to Mohammedia it is 210 nm, so we plan two days for the trip. We are far from the street of Gibraltar, so

Yes, we are already in Lagos. Originally we thought to sail the way down with around 5 to seven stops like Nazaré. Lisboa, Sines. But we got a weather forecast promising north wind for a couple of days.

Eventually we got the right wind force from the right direction for our 67 nm trip from Baiona/Spain to Porto/Portugal. We are happy now to be here since the weather changed to a sunny and warm one and

Now we have reached our presumably last spanish marina before we are crossing the portuguese border. Since we are happy about getting visited by some of our family we will stay here the remaining days

The day we sailed to Combarro was quite nice as I mentiond in my last blog. But since the day after arrival we have a lot of rain and wind. In gusts more than 40 kn (44,5 as you can see on the picture,

After spending a couple of days in Ribeira we continued our sailing south to Combarro. According to our sailing guide for this area it would be a "shame" not visiting Combarro once being around

Arrived in Ribeira. Instead of sailing the engine was on and the sea was a bit rough. But no real issues. The only issue is the bad weather here. I thought March in Spain would be already sunny with more

Bevor we are leaving Muros for the next Ria, here two pictures of Muros.

After one week in Camariñas we sailed into the next Ria, Ria Muros. Not exactly sailing, because at the beginning the wind was not enough for sailing and for the last about 15 nm there was almost to much

Nice walk along "Costa del Morte" from Camariñas to Cape Villano with its light house.. Sunny, 15 to 20 degrees Celsius. Last nice day before the cold wind from Central Europe is coming down

After 4 months in A Coruña we started into 2018 sailing which shall bring us at the end of the year into the carribean. But that is a long way which we want sail step by step. The first one are the around

We are still in A Coruña. But the work on the boat is done (at least the most important parts) and now we are just waiting for a parcel which needs a bit longer to arrive than expected. So as soon as it

Living on a boat means to have (almost) everything within a small place similar to an appartement or house on land. Unless you go for diner each and every day a kitchen, which is called pantry on a boat,

June 2014, two months before we bought Luna Mare, the boat we are now living on, we did our first baltic sea sailing. We sailed two weeks from Travemünde/Germany to Swinoujście/Poland, Bornholm/Denmark,

This map shows our sailing so far. Beginning of June 2017 we started in Travemünde/Germany. After sailing the Baltic sea for two months we headed south and arrived end of October in A Coruña, where we

Midsummer fest 2017 in Sweden on the Island Gotland.

This picture shows us on Luna Mare just arriving at Gotland/Sweden. Someone from a camping ground nearby took it and came later to the marina, where we stayed, to give it to us. Thank you.

Our Luna Mare in June 2017 in Ystad/Sweden.