We had both heard and read about the blues festival on Mustique – or rather about Basil’s Blues Festival, since Basil’s Beach Bar is the sponsor. We thought – what the hell? I mean we’re cruisers and we’ve got nothing else to do. So we set a course for Mustique, a hard sail against…

  We left Union Island and sailed to very nearby Petit Martinique (about 3-4nm in order to buy cheap booze (yes friends – believe it or not, -vinni and I have finally managed to drink all the wine we packed when we left Denmark – so we have to stock up) Petit Martinique is actually…

  Early one morning we weighed anchor from Admiralty Bay, waved good-bye to Bequia and set our genua for Canouan. Canouan is not as well known or visited as the other Grenadines. The northern half of the island is an exclusive resort (very exclusive), which is gated and requires permission and a guide.  It does…

Nice easy overnight sail to Bequia.  Down along the coast of St.  Lucia in lee of the land and then a quick run across the channel behind St. Vincent, another channel then along Bequia and into Admiralty Bay, drop anchor, eat some breakfast, get some sleep and then party all New Year’s eve.  Right? Uhhh.…

  We’re spending chrstmas here on St Lucia. My daughter, AnneSophie, her husband Jamie, son Viggo and the 3 year old terrorist, Frida are coming to visit.  Fortunately they are sensible people and have rented a villas at Windjammer Landings, just a few miles from Rodney Bay.  So they get to be able to be…

  Well across the atlantic, we stayed in Rodney Bay for a week or so. Our “wailing wall” was empty (surprisingly after a 3 week passage), but we needed to provision and recover (read – sleep). Rodney Bay has everything you could want, with 4 supermarkets within walking or dinghy distance so the day after…

Crossing the Atlantic without the trade winds! YES WE DID IT1 Carsten and I crossed the Atlantic – in slowmotion – 25.5 days   1.- 1st leg Day 1 It’s Sunday morning, November 6, 2016. I haven’t slept a wink since 2 a.m.  I’ve been lying here and speculating on exactly what it is we’ve…

We made Capri ready for sea and late morning we sailed out to the starting line. The start was terribly confusing, we could’t see the starting flags and the radio was distorted by a lot of static – it was only when everyone took off that we followed. Yep, that was the start.  Again it…

I’m sitting in our cockpit here in Capri, tied to our berth in Las Palmas harbor. Vinni is up taking a shower and I’m thinking about what we will be undertaking later today. We’ll be crossing the Atlantic in our own boat. Yeah – so what else is new? Yawn.  Been there, done that, got…

We were now in the Canaries, Lanzarote to be exact and we began doing what we’ve been doing every time we made harbor – we started fixing things. We were determined to get our electrical systems functioning properly, regardless of cost or effort – we simply can’t electrical problems hanging over our heads every time…