WELELDREIS IN MINIFORMAT

Op wereldreis gaan, maar wel om zes uur thuis zijn voor het eten. Zo voelt het voor Titus Bekkering als hij in een vakantie van Nederland naar de Azoren en terug zeilt. En als een oefening in nietigheid in een oneindige ruimte.
Here is the publication in the Dutch sailing magazin ZEILEN  Continue reading →

Hi Peter

a wonderful sailing season came to ceize due to the start of the hurricane season. Our boat went on the hard in Chaguaramas / Trindad and we will proceed to Panama during next season time.

The Pacific has served us perfectly, no idea how we would be able to manage without this excellent piece of equipment.

with warm regards
Hans Geilinger
SV Tuvalu    continue please >

FISHY, FISHY – IDENTIFIED, FISHY, FISHY – BAKED, STEAMED OR FRIED?

Sailors at sea are always looking for a bit of variety, at least as far as the menu goes. Often that variety comes in the form of a stroke of fortune – or misfortune, if you prefer to look at it from the fish’s point of view – with the fishing gear. Eating the catch is one thing though, identifying it quite another!

Hamburg-based fisherman and graphic designer OLIVER FRIEL has been working away patiently for years to help seafarers put a name to a face (or fillet). His book fishfinder names and identifies – in 25 European languages – 180 fish regularly found in Europe, grouping them by region for ease of use. Catching, preparing and, in due course, devouring fish need not be such an impersonal experience after all: from restaurant table to cockpit floor, with fishfinder you know who you are eating.

Thanks to the efforts of Oliver Friel, yachtsman and former layouter for German sailing magazine YACHT, and database and web developer Dr. Jens Teich Filemaker Engineer , the book is now also available electronically as the FishfinderPro APP. Sailors on shore leave in foreign parts need no longer feel quite so isolated: the rest of the menu may be a mystery, but with this new app in your pocket you can at least identify the fish on your plate. His number’s up anyway; the least you can do is get his name right!

KALKUTTA – BLUE SKY – WEISSWASSER – HOW DOES THIS FIT?

A puzzle hardly to recognize – at least in case you have been unable to meet two happy persons – a complete family though!
Griselle – temperament from Mexiko spent some time in KALKUTTA / MUMBAI for social mission work for Mother Theresa sometime in 2008. During one of her sundowners in her daily Pub named “BLUE SKY” – she met her Alter Ego – Tino Schumann, pharmacist from WEISSHAAR / Oberlausitz / Eastern Germany – working in mission in Kalkutta as well. A very special meeting – with perfect consequences, millions of people are dreaming about – without ever getting this dream to reality!

A lucky day – two minds running the same wide way to fulfill their dreams…

Living together since now 4 years, luck has got a name “ENYA” – running around like a tumbling ball on her three year old legs – and cross their yacht.

Their dreams become true – the family intending to head for the wide oceans for at least the next 4 years – when the school demanding yet another kind of life again. The Pharmacy has been sold, shor life being converted to boat life.

The adventure will start on May 7th 2012 in TRAVEMÜNDE Germany.
How about future plans? Very certainly the story will not end back into normal life, as this family will be capable to accomodate at nearly any other place in the world easily – as they are happy and wide open to other people all over the world. Continue>