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 ...

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 ...

I continue south from Marina Denia along the coast. My spinnaker gets all tangled up and have to moore at Marina Calpe. There's a big rock mountain over ...

The climax of Fallas is about to happen when they burn down the sculptures all over town. But before that I enjoy the last weekend of Fallas in fabulous ...

This episode takes us out of Valencia to see a show in honour of women and two different wineries. A small artisanal cellar and a large producer with our ...

Please be advised there is a bit of vulgarity in this episode. (At about 5:48 for a few seconds. You have been warned if you want to skip it:-) I've been ...

Valencia in full Fallas. The city literally explodes every day at 14:00. And we get first row look at the big bang. Before that we visit the stunning Mercado ...

Mickey's back. And there's more of him literally. About 10 more kilos. But he's still fun and loves to eat. This time Mom is with us. We discover more ...

Valencia! What a city. Me and Steph dock in Marina Real Juan Carlos, home of the 33rd America's Cup and go off to discover the city. We make a first stop at ...

We left Barcelona to continue south to Valencia. On the the way we stop one port after another into light headwinds. On the last day we get the perfect wind to ...

Galopin goes from gale force winds to super mega yacht haven in OneOcean Port Bell marina in Barcelona. Little 40ft Galopin is surrounded by yachts 50m and ...

This week’s episode is epic. As the title suggests, me and Galopin navigate in 45knt gales. I left Estartit on the north coast of Catalonia with already 20knt ...

Galopin is finally ready to sail the seas. We make some final adjustments and I stock up on French food before setting off. Me and the gang go to a French ...

Good old Galopin is refitted, renewed and refreshed! We finish most of the final details and test him out in hospitality and on the water. he's happy, and so ...

The mast goes up, and so do I go up on the mast. I have to get used to it, as well as many other challenges we face being sailors. My sailboat refit education ...

In this episode I deal with some people trying to steal my dinghy from a beach in Spain. I have the worst day being ill, get invaded with flies and repair a ...

Finally back in the water after 6 weeks on dry dock. But before then we finish with swing keel, polish and paint the hull with anti-fouling. Then the big crane ...

It's the holiday week but we're not on holiday. Got to keep on keeping on with the swing keel which I get delivered by Daniel the man of steel. He takes me to ...

Since I’ve departed on my Winded Voyage, I’ve become reacquainted with sayings like “Getting Even Keeled” in the context they originated. In this case getting ...

The eternal question of shaving or not. Will I or will I not? The beard does not keep me from continuing on with Galopin's projects. It's almost the holidays ...

Life on the hard it certainly is. I even got locked in one day and had to make a run for it. And got down and very dirty in that keel pit. But it's not a very ...

Living the dream of sailing off into the sunset means that sometimes you have to live high and dry. Galopin is on the dry dock and so am I. While we’re getting ...

I'm not the only one to have a dream of sailing off into the sunset. Here you'll meet several others who are preparing their boat for a big voyage. And I'm ...

Work, work, work. After a quick stint in Switzerland to do a paying gig, I board a train to my dear Galopin to do more work. And thanks to Neptune, I’m working ...