Dead downwind behind our heavy cloth polyester spi towards Barbados. Cape Verde to Mindelo in 9 days and a couple of hours, mostly just along the great circle ...

After stoppping for 2 days in Mindelo, Cabo Verde, we continue towards Barbados. The forecast looks great. Following the great circle course we shouldn't sail ...

Now the bigger crossings are starting. We have a nice build up with first the 650 miles from Sevilla to the Canaries, now the 850 miles to Cabo Verde and next ...

The Outremer After-sales service team flies in to fix the final issues before the crossing while we prepare the boat, check the rig, provision and visit the ...

Let's have a holiday as well and visit the beautiful island of La Gomera for a couple of days together with the crews of Spekeend and Inky Blue.

Cruising through the Canaries without a main towards Marina Santa Cruz on Tenerife from where we will start our Atlantic crossing

Halfway the crossing and 50 miles out of the Moroccan coast we continue heading for Graciosa

After a week in Sevilla it's time for the historical start down river to go all around the world.

We sail from Cadiz to Sevilla, 45 miles up river and celibrate the historical start of the Grand Large World Odyssey, sailing around the world.

It's already getting busy in Gibraltar with GLYWO boats on their way to Cadiz. Tina and I leave around noon, maybe still a bit early for the current but it ...

Sailing without the captain from Almeria to Gibraltar

We leave Fromentera in the direction of Gibraltar and decide to drop Marijke in Alméria to fly home for a couple of days

Next stop after Mallorca is Ibiza. Close haul from Mallorca to the NE corner of Ibiza and then clockwise via Santa Eularia to Formentera with enough wind for a ...

In the second segment of the first leg sailing around the world we visit the north coast of Mallorca, have some first arguments with our genset and gennaker ...

Yes, we're on our way for a 30.000 miles adventure sailing around the world. In the first leg we will sail to the center of Seville, with stops on the ...

Final preparations for the world rally, it looks like we will finish all action points before the departure on September 27. Tina arrives and joins us during ...

Bonus : As we were too busy preparing for the GLYWO I haven’t been able to finish the nee episode. To make up for it, I’ll publish a private video of our ...

We're still preparing for the around the world rally, finishing the after sales list and doing the safety check. But we do find the time to travel by train to ...

This time we're sailing in just a tiny bit of wind and the boat still wants to move. Still working on after sales support items and preparing the boat for our ...

Back in La Grande Motte the preparation for the around the world rally continues as Outremers' After Sales Service team solves the issue list after the shake ...

While preparing the boat back in La Grande Motte in the South of France for our tour around the world we show you around the whole cat and list the options ...

Together with Spekeend we sail back to the south of France, with stops in Palámos and Collioure

After sailing from LGM to Mallorca we have fun around this beautiful island with our sailing and soon sailing friends.

After the delivery and the handover week we're ready to test the boat for a couple of weeks. On the first trip O51 Spekeend joins us towards Rosas in Spain, we ...