AWEN is really excited to get to Miami, she's sailing like a thoroughbred and we share how we hove to on our sailboat to both fix and break more things :-) ⚓ ...

We are back on track and making progress, little by little, hour by hour. But will it be enough to get there on time? Sailing under deadline always has it's ...

We had a big dilemma and had to leave DR so we needed to make some tough choices. Life is never as expected when you choose to sail. ⚓ Join us as we learn ...

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 ...

Another twist! We are trying to check in and check out in Luperon to sail out early the next day, but immigration and navy technicalities could mean we are ...

We had a last minute change of plans in our sheltering location to get a better exit from a mooring ball and shelter in Luperon. Unexpected gusts and we ...

Too much wind, not enough wind, so it is with sailing on our catamaran above the Dominican Republic. ⚓ Join us as we learn what it takes to circumnavigate ...

Fuel anxiety is a real thing on a sailboat, trust me. Especially through the Mona Passage. It's a nail-biter as to whether we will make it to the fuel dock at ...

Learning to accept that you can't control the weather and the conditions is one of the hardest things about sailing! Join us as we remind ourselves of this ...

AWEN is back in the water and headed to Miami, but will we get there on time for the Outremer 52 US debut at the Miami Boat Show? Join our sailing journey and ...

Champagne sailing in less than 6 days, 1300 miles from Walvis Bay in Namibia to a lonely rock in the middle of the South Atlantic ocean

A lot of progress underway at the boat yard to fix our Outremer 52! We walk you through AWEN's healing process and share more boat projects in Martinique on ...

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 ...

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 ...

There's a hole in our sailboat and we don't know if we will still be able to make the deadline to the Miami Boat Show. There's still so much work to do to get ...

We discuss what we learned during our transatlantic sailing passage on our performance catamaran, Outremer 52, and cover our highs and lows of the journey. ...

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 ...

What an unexpected bummer getting hit by another sailboat while at anchor, but it could have certainly been so much worse! ⚓ Join us as we learn what it takes ...

On our last day Nikki had something EPIC in store for us; the QUAD! It was our final exam in the Nikki Henderson School of Sailing before our transatlantic ...

Just one day out from landfall we take a moment to reflect on whether making the change to a performance cruising catamaran from a production catamaran was ...

Summary of episodes 267 to 303, year 2 out of 3 of our circumnavigation. This part is covering the period from July 2022 to July 2023.

JOIN OUR CREW LIVESTREAM on January 1 live from sailing in the MIDDLE OF THE ATLANTIC OCEAN...assuming our starlink Dotty is in a good mood that day. We will ...

We learn more about our sailboat today and go over all the lines and ropes, which definitely come in handy in a transatlantic passage. This is a special ...

We get the staysail out today to do a test to see if sailing with the staysail and Code 65 gain us any speed in very light winds. This is a special PASSAGE ...