We explore the small island Little Curacao and set sails to Los Aves Sotavento, the western Los Aves island group in Venezuela.
Marlin is sailing upwind for some 24 hours, tacking along constantly heeled over some 20 degrees. The conditions are perfect an...
The crew is complete and we lift anchor in Curacao for our first sail to the neighboring island Small Curacao. The conditions are perfect and we sail a sporty closed hauled trip to grove into life at an angle of twenty degrees.
Enjoy and Ahoy,
Nike c/o SY...
Back in warmer latitudes, back in the Caribbean Sea! Not quite back on Karl, yet...he is still waiting patiently in Ecuador for my return.
Michael, the owner of SV Marlin, has asked me to work as a co-skipper for two weeks for a charter sail from Curacao ...
After five weeks of traveling the Pacific North West, our voyage comes to an end. We travelled a total of 1.600 nautical miles along the most stunning coast lines of Washington, British Columbia and Alaska.
On our last leg down from Lowe Inlet to Campbell...
At the moment we are eight boats in the bay of which three are run by women: Maria, Holly and myself. Since those two ladies are pretty bad ass sailors, I have invited them over to Karl this Friday to share some of their stories with you. We hope to see yo...
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As most of you know, our videos are not real time and I am actually not in Canada at the moment. Some of you have written me and asked me if I was doing okay, so I decided to do a little live feed with you to give you and updated about the ...
Ahoy,
Nike c/o SV Persistence
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After motoring most of the way up north along the coast of the picturesque British Columbia, we set all canvas to sail across the border to Alaska!
We are greeted with a bunch of thick fog and a mesmerizing underwater world that is taking up all my atten...
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After the pretty anchorage Fury Cove we continue further north to Sheerwater Marina and Get to sail Pesistance with full sails up. What a treat!!!
We have a spare day to plan and the Captain lets me chose a destination, how exciting! I decide for the pict...
We stop at Alert Bay to visit the U’mista Cultural Center and are super exited when we find out that there will be some local dance performances at the long house.
After a hearty Poutine we cast off again to a night stop in the Cattle Group before we se...
There is not much sailing in B.C. in the summer months, but there us surely great wild life! We travel from Cameleon Harbour onward to Spout Bay where we are greeted by a mystic foggy landscape. We watch a pod of orcas speed through the water and have a bu...
British Columbia is doing its magic again! Humpback whales splashing their tales left and right and beautiful SV Persistance is cruising past steep dark cliffs, through narrow passes and into picturesque and protected anchorages. I finally get to stretch m...
A huge THANK YOU to Stanley who was so kind to take me out in his little boat to give me a crash course in how to catch Salmon.
This episode is all about meeting people during my travels. I am always amazed how many beautiful souls cross my wake. Wildlife...
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When I told people that I was going to trav...
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From Penn Cove we travel up to Nanaimo, Cana...
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We are doing a little geographical jump i...
Karl and his sailor girls are off the hook in Cabo San Lorenzo (Ecuador) and headded to Bahía Caraquez. We have a georgous sail and launch our trawler to take another Microplastic sample. And what great news: we find 0 plastic in our sample. Quite interes...
Maria and I are sailing from bay to bay along the pretty coast of Ecuador. Isla Salango does not look too enviting to explore by land, so we decide to take a slow boat day and just hang out, swim, watch the local tourist boats pull up and enjoy the quiet o...
Boobies are just the cutest, especially the blue-footed ones. The way they dance and pick up sticks to show how good of a nest they can build...Just super sweet! I could watch them for hours...
Isla Plata is a very pretty island, just off the coast of Ecu...
We sail peacfully through the night and suddenly the boat stops! The rudder and prop got caught in a massive floating fishing net that extends for miles and was not lit. My sailboat Karl is hanging in the net whilst a 2 knot current is pushing the boat in...
Upsi, my sailboat is sitting aground on a sandbank in a river. But no worries, I did this on purpose...to clean my hull. My sailboat has one speciality: TWIN KEELS. This enables me to dryfall with my boat in tidal water bodies to inspect my hull, to clean ...
As a sailor, I live on and of the ocean. This vast body of water has always fascinated me, I have always felt magically drawn to it since early childhood. During the last years, I have seen the drastic effects that plastic pollution has on our oceans. Shor...
Wanna know how to change a transmission oil seal? Check out how I did it on my sailboat.
My Transmission oil seal had been leaking for a while and I finally decided to change the seal. Unfortunately, I did not have the right tool to do the job and had to...
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