It was an arduous sail for my son Seb to get La Graciosa, but once there he was cured of his ills. Together we discover another part of the island and prepare ...
Winded Voyage Sailing
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This time Im in the Tobago Cays with the Pirates of the Caribbean, well not with them but where they filmed! I do some major chillin meet some rasta park ...
Adventures of an old Seadog
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...