Hopefully for the last time during our GLYWO around the world rally, we haul out the boat in Mackay for new BLACK antifouling and Greatcircle gets an additional welness treatment sponsored by Outremer
The Grand Large Yachting Team flies Down Under to meet the GLYWO boats visiting Australia. Gives us a perfect opportunity to meet new members of the Outremer family and have a lot of fun both on and off the water.
After the excitement in Hills Inlet we continu cruising through the Whitsundays and visit Tongue Bay, Butterfly Bay, Bait Reef, One Foot Island and Nara Inlet before heading to Airlie Beach
We follow Nick's recommendations along the coast of Queensland towards Cairns. Beautiful stops. especially the ones at Zoe Bay, Magnetic Island and Kent Island.
Marijke flies home to celebrate new life and Thomas joins us for the crossing from Australia over the Arafura Sea towards Kei Islands in Indonesia. Not easy to avoid the numerous fishing vessels and their nets in the dark at an average speed of close to 10...
Marijke flies back to Bau Bau and we have some very nice winds helping us to catch up with the rest of the group. In order to avoid all the fishing pontoons we use the speed of Greatcircle to make the necessary crossings during daylight.
After the busy busy Labuan Bajo it's good to be cruising around Indonesia on our own boat again. We visit very nice spots on times that they're not over populated like the Seven Mushrooms, Komodo, Wera and Satonda Island.
A couple of stops after leaving Satonda we arrive at Medana Bay Marina where we prepare the boats for the Indian Ocean crossing and say goodbye to a couple of boats that will follow a different program. 13 boats left in the GLYWO to cross the next ocean .....
After a couple of days on Christmas Islands it's time for the second leg of the Indian Ocean crossing. 550 nm towards the marvelous turquoise waters of Cocos Keeling Islands
It's time for another big crossing, 2000 nm from Cocos Keeling islands to Rodrigues. Luckily the Outremer makes big oceans a lot smaller and we're not even the fastest Outremer with Saga, POM III and BioTrek around us
Even if the combined swell and wind waves on the Indian Ocean are quite annoying we realize that it could have been a lot worse as we are able to maintain a decent average over the second thousand of nautical miles towards Rodrigues
After speeding across the Indian Ocean we enjoy a week on the authentic and cosy island of Rodrigues. From there it's just a short 350 miles crossing to Mauritius
After a couple of days in the busy Port Louis we sail around the corner to the northern Grand Baie. As the name says it's a pretty big bay with plenty of space for a lot of boats to anchor. We anchor close to the GBYC who has invited us and who will organi...
We complete the tour around the island of Mauritius to Port Louis where the next technical stop is planned. The technicians of Grand Large will fly in to prepare the boats for one of the more complex passages we will face in the upcoming weeks : crossing f...
After the technical stop in Port Louis, Mauritius we sail to France (even though still a long way from Europe) where we prepare for a very challenging crossing to Richard's Bay, South Africa
Well it is kind of interesting to be pushed to the max to choose an optimal weather window and routing when crossing an ocean. This time it's only 1400 miles, but still a significant amount of water to cross. Changing forecasts and approaching weather syst...
After crossing the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean it is now time to cross the Indian Ocean. Maybe not the biggest ocean of the three but for sure the one that impressed us the most upfront
In this half year from July 23 until December 23 we sail from the ...
We return from Holland and have some time left to prepare the boat for the upcoming legs crossing the South Atlantic. The first leg goes from Cape Town over 700 miles north to Walvis Bay in Namibia which will take us 3,5 days accompagnied by Aline, whales,...
We didn't realize ourselves that the influence of the arctic Benguela current is that big in Namibia. Locals tell us we're even lucky with a couple of warm and very blue days. Perfect conditions to play in the sand before crossing the South Atlantic in the...
Our arrival on Saint Helena is magnificent. With the rising sun on Barn Rock it just looks like it has been polished the day before. Very special this rock in the middle of the ocean, 1300 miles from Namibia and 1750 from Recife. I guess they wanted to be ...
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