My son Seb joins me for the next leg of my journey.We would Canary island hop. After some final work to my anchor bowsprit, we would leave Lanzarote island for good and head to La Graciosa. I didn't know how my son would deal with the first journey. But he...
La Graciosa Island has the best anchorage in all the Canaries. And some of the best local sights. I take a walk up a volcano to get a good view of the island and I'm not disappointed! It's beautiful! Then I make my way back sailing down to Arrecife in grea...
La Graciosa island is a favorite to many sailors and Canary natives. It has one of the few good anchorages of all the archipelago. The island has no roads because only the few residents living there have the right to have a car. After several months in the...
The solo sail continues as do the anchor tests. I revisit the naked beach, Playa Mujeres, to drop the hook for another test and a swim ashore. Then I go to spend a night a Marina Rubicon and visit my friends Pilou & Aurelie. The next day we go and sail...
It's back to solo sailing. But before that I install my new anchor bow sprit and go off to help my neighbor crew with some guest on his boat Chica. Later I sail south to test out my Mantus anchor at Isla de Lobos. Great downwind sailing to the island and a...
I'm pretty good at making videos, sailing I've still got a lot to learn. So I go out and sail as much as I can. The wind is always present in Lanzarote, so it's great practice. But since I've been asked how I make my videos, I show off my gear, and I take ...
The truth is you're never really living alone when living aboard. At Marina Lanzarote, there's plenty of people to make friends with. And the marina staff is really cool. And you rarely solo sail naked. But if you're going to do it, it's best to do it when...
I'm back on dear old Galopin. And it's a good thing, he seemed to have missed me, and I sure missed him. I hang out with some friends I met through YouTube. Socializing thanks to social media. Dan comes down with his girlfriend for a short visit and we sai...
Jack Sparrow is alive and well and going on his last raid. With his crew up in the mountains and back down. It's in fact my cousin who's playing the part for his bachelor party. He happens to be a sailor and we grabbed him for his boat and took him on a wi...
There's more ways to sail. This time it's in the air with my friend Jean Yves on his Ultra Light Delta Wing. Amazing experience, yet a bit freaky. Along with some bow sprit repair, this episode also takes us to a music festival in the volcanic vineyards. T...
Lanzarote is the island of 100 volcanoes. So we cruise down volcano road, in Timanfaya national park. A most amazing landscape. Which is the case of much of Lanzarote. Artist Cesar Manrique took advantage of the volcanic geology of the island and created s...
We discover Cesar Manrique's Lanzarote. The island's destiny was modelled by the brillant artist. His idea was to conceptualise the island for tourism in harmony with its unique landscape. Sort of like a concept art theme park set in nature. The attraction...
Me and Steph make a pretty good crew on Galopin. We sailed from Arrecife to Playa Blanca along the western coast of Lanzarote. It was a great sail downwind but on the way back we had a problem and had to turn back. So we had a look at the town of Playa Bla...
Lanzarote Island in the Canaries. The island of 100 volcanoes and many wonderful people. I explore part of the island and meet a fellow Swiss for cheese fondue on his Joshua sailboat as well as a former Parisian who’s been on the island ever he since he ...
Just about everybody at one point or another has had either the dream or the passing notion of getting on a boat and doing what I'm doing. And now after more than 2000 nautical miles along the coast of Spain, across to Africa and out into the Atlantic Ocea...
We had a good weather forecast for the next 4 to 5 days. So we left Tangier Morocco out into the Atlantic to the Canary Island about 600 nautical miles south. It was quite a change from the Mediterranean. Big soft rolling waves, steady wind and lots of su...
Winded Voyage is on the African continent. Legendary Tangier Morocco, where spies hid, rockstars partied and poets got high. A favorite city for travellers and the two man crew of Galopin. We discover and get lost in the old city to find a bounty of goods ...
Gibraltar. The Rock. A tiny piece of the UK on the fringe of the Iberian Peninsula. What’s is it like? For us it was place to fix our steering cable. To get there, you have to cross a border then an airport runway, on foot! We got the parts fixed the ste...
We tried to stay ahead of the low pressure system coming behind us, but it came faster and stronger than we thought. With the wind topping at more than 35kt with a big swell, we took refuge just at nightfall. We made a wise decision as it rained and the wi...
Having the will to sail away is one thing. Having the boat to do it with is another. My engine is fixed and we're ready to go. We meet friends who have sailed from far. Sweden and Finland. Then it's our turn to go. Conditions are good, but in the Med that ...
Galopin gets towed back to Cartagena and the quest to the mystery of the runaway Perkins gets resolved thanks to the help of a very capable neighbor. Meanwhile, I take a break from the engine room to explore a tiny hidden pirate village and we meet Ray who...
The ambiance is fantastic in Cartagena during Semana Santa. The Dutch family is getting ready to go with some final preparations on their boat, which makes me think about my engine. Then back in the city, Roman soldiers parade through the streets and me an...
This episode takes place in Cartagena Spain. It was a destination I’d been hoping to get to from my frigid days in France and made it to Yacht Port Cartagena in the dark of night. I was also there at the right time, it was Semana Santa or Easter Week. Ca...
Just as I'm about to leave Alicante, I meet Diana Ross in person, as well as her husband Paul. They happen to be Winded Voyage followers. My journey continues along the coast until I get to Mare Menor where I have to get me and Galopin under a drawbridge t...
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