#sailing #solosailing #atlanticcrossing
I'm getting close to my end destination. But the closer we get, the slower I seem to go. The engine wont stay running for more that an hour or so. As well, a strong current is pushing me in the wrong direction. I slo...
#sailing #solosailing #galeforce
I'm a little more than halfway to French Guyana, and entering a different weather zone. I'm in the tropics. It's blistering hot and clouds are forming all around me and the 40ft. boat I'm delivering. As well I'm in the Sara...
#sailing #solosailing #atlanticcrossing
I was contacted to see if I would be interested in delivering a sailboat to French Guyana. There had a captain, but he bailed last minute. We settled on a price. I said I’d be ready to go in a couple of days. That ...
#sailing #sailinglifestyle #domperignon
We went out sailing during a tropical depression around the Cabo Verde Archipelago to test out the boat and for some storm chasing. We came back with a few injuries to my boat Galopin. And then I took on the 25th bi...
#sailing #sailinglifestyle #deejaytelio
Going from a sea of people to the wide ocean. It’s the final day of Baia Festival. And the final act is performing loud and clear at 7AM and the crowd is crazy and it’s hot. A fresh swim in the bay before we go...
#sailinglifestyle #musicfestival #caboverdeyoutuber
Festival de Baia de Gatas is the big event of the year in Cabo Verde. Ten of thousands of music lovers come to dance to the hottest artists from Cape Verde and worldwide. Three days of celebration with ar...
#sailinglifestyle #caboverde #kizomba
We go to the much anticipated concert of Elji Beatzkilla, Cape Verdean music superstar. He performs to a full house at Laginha Beach his famous hits. And I take Galopin out for a cruise north of the islands to test out...
#offgrid #livingfree #bikinis
So across the canal is this incredible island called Santo Antao. Its rugged yet sweet. It produces some of the best grog, fruits and vegetables and tough women. We brought some tough women with us and took to a green fresh w...
#sailinglifestyle #caboverde #caboverdeyoutuber
Santa Antao is the most western island of the Cabo Verde archipelago, and the most spectacular. Its volcanic mountains rise nearly 2000 meters above sea level. And me and my buddy Fanny, or kumat in Creole, ...
#sailing #sailinglifestyle #festivalseason
It's summer in Mindelo, Cabo Verde. And there's something going on every weekend, like Feastival de Kavala Fresk, or Mackerel Fish Festival. They celebrate the fish with Mackerel recipes, live music and more. As w...
#sailing #sailinglifestyle #boatfails
Many stories unfold here in Cabo Verde. Like the women friends who show up to let loose on Galopin. A strange lobster called a Locust Lobster. And a boat on its way across the ocean that ended up sinking just a few mil...
#sailing #sailinglifestyle #bikinis
So I met a German sailor who said I had a bad reputation. I was intrigued and surprised by his answer. Meanwhile, Wendy, Lori and I went about on our adventures on the island of Santa Antao.
Some say it’s The Best Sai...
#sailing #livingfree #sailboatlifestyle
Wendy had asked me if we could go to Santa Antao for a yearly festival. How could I refuse. Galopin was ready to go, and it was just a few nautical miles away. She asked if her friend Lori could come. Galopin has thr...
#sailing #sailinglifestyle #retirement
Two points of view of living in Cabo Verde, Africa. Young people enjoying the May Day Holiday and glimpse of life in retirement for a Rolls Royce engineer. Life is not easy for everyone on the island of Sao Vicente, b...
#sailing #sailinglifestyle #sailife
Arguably Mads and I are creators of two of the best sailing channels. I personally am a big fan of his channel Sail Life and the incredible work he's done on his boat Athena. But best of all, he sailed it with his lovely...
#sailing #livingfree #sailboatlifestyle
It's the final leg of our journey sailing around Cabo Verde with our guest Ferdi. We return where we started from two weeks prior. There he talks of his experience in a one-on-one interview in our segment Galopin's G...
#sailing #sailinglifestyle #swelll
I’ve been to this anchorage many times before. And it’s usually a pretty laid back spot. But the past few days were different. Because of the incoming swell. It’s a shallow bay and the waves can break at any moment ...
#sailing #marizia #sailinglifestyle
In our continuing series with Ferdi on his journey to get his ocean sailing license on Galopin. He's come with me to accumulate nautical miles and knowledge on the ocean. We do some safety training, like anchoring in a s...
#sailing #sailinglifestyle #seamanship
Seamanship, can it be taught? In my opinion no. You either got it or you don't. Like talent. You can't teach an artist, musician or athlete to be great. They just are. And should one have a sailing license? I didn't f...
#sailing #solosailing #howto
Let me start by saying that I’m Swiss. So how can someone like me, Swiss, get one of those? We’ve got no ocean, no sea, no coastline. I’m from a country that is landlocked. So how do we do it? Precisely how did I do it? R...
#sailing #sailinglifestyle #bikini
We were about twenty miles away, and it was getting dark. The wind had dropped so I started my engine. But it was not running right. I spent several hours trying to purge the injectors. It didn’t work. Thorfinn kept on ...
#adventurer #sailinglifestyle #sailing
The latest of Galopin’s Guest interview is with Thorfinn who rode his bicycle from the most Northwestern point in Scotland to Senegal. Riding all the way through England, France, Northern Spain, Portugal, Morocco, W...
#sailing #sailinglifestyle #roughsea
We say "Au revoir" to all the beautiful people I met in Dakar. The dilema for us sailors. But "Au revoir" means "See you". We head out in the afternoon to beat the fishermen who lay out their nets in the late afternoon...
#sailing #livingfree #boatmaintenance
I wanted to do some shopping at the popular Colombane market. So the ladies, Chantal and Sorna offered to take me there to protect me and to help in negotiating. When they see a foreigner the prices double. We still g...
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