The time has finally come. I can now say that the English Channel is finally a thing of the past. It was a much tougher fight from the Netherlands down to Brest during the North European winter time than I expected and the Bay of Biscay Crossing marks the transition into a whole new chapter….
It has been four months since the collision with the unlit buoy at night during the last hours of the passage through the English Channel to Brest. A lot has happened, but the main and most important thing is, that Wolf is ready to go again and stronger than ever before. What Happened? On the…
While entering the Rade de Brest shortly after nightfall, a collision with an object occurs in the dark between the island of O’ussant and the French mainland. With every damage below the waterline in the bow section, a mayday call gets set off. Later, the object turned out to be an unlit buoy. At approximately…
Today, on the 28. of September I’m starting on Leg 1 which leads us from the Netherlands to Brest in France. But the weather wants so otherwise. The first named autumn storm “Aito” just hit the Dutch coast. To avoid that I stayed two days longer in Amsterdam than anticipated upfront. But now it is…
Three years. A longer preparation phase than the planned duration of the actual plan: Sailing around the world. Over roughly the last three years I’ve prepared myself and the boat to sail solo around the world, taking the long and rough route around Cape Horn and through the wilderness of Patagonia. Below I want to…