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6 months of sailing

It's already 6 months ago that we were in Arrecife/Canary Island/Spain. Since then we sailed to Capo Verde, Senegal, Gambia and back to capo verde. In December ...

Back in Spain

After Portugal and Marocco we are now back in spain: Arrecife/Lanzarote. It is a really great Island. In 2011 we sailed already in this area and visited with a ...

Morocco

After having every broken part repaired and back in place we are heading for Morocco. From Lagos to Mohammedia it is 210 nm, so we plan two days for the trip. W...

South Portugal / Algarve

Yes, we are already in Lagos. Originally we thought to sail the way down with around 5 to seven stops like Nazaré. Lisboa, Sines. But we got a weather forecast ...

Wonderful Porto

Eventually we got the right wind force from the right direction for our 67 nm trip from Baiona/Spain to Porto/Portugal. We are happy now to be here since the we...

7 years 7 seas - Baiona

Now we have reached our presumably last spanish marina before we are crossing the portuguese border. Since we are happy about getting visited by some of our fam...

7 years 7 seas - windy Combarro

The day we sailed to Combarro was quite nice as I mentiond in my last blog. But since the day after arrival we have a lot of rain and wind. In gusts more than 4...

7 years 7 seas - Combarro

After spending a couple of days in Ribeira we continued our sailing south to Combarro. According to our sailing guide for this area it would be a "shame" not vi...

7 years 7 seas - Ribeira, Galicia, Spain

Arrived in Ribeira. Instead of sailing the engine was on and the sea was a bit rough. But no real issues. The only issue is the bad weather here. I thought Marc...

7 years 7 seas - Pictures from Muros

Bevor we are leaving Muros for the next Ria, here two pictures of Muros....

7 years 7 seas - Muros/Spain

After one week in Camariñas we sailed into the next Ria, Ria Muros. Not exactly sailing, because at the beginning the wind was not enough for sailing and for th...

7 years 7 seas - Cape Villano

Nice walk along "Costa del Morte" from Camariñas to Cape Villano with its light house.. Sunny, 15 to 20 degrees Celsius. Last nice day before the cold wind from...

7 years 7 seas - sailing again

After 4 months in A Coruña we started into 2018 sailing which shall bring us at the end of the year into the carribean. But that is a long way which we want sai...

7 years 7 seas - ready to go

We are still in A Coruña. But the work on the boat is done (at least the most important parts) and now we are just waiting for a parcel which needs a bit longer...

7 years 7 seas - pantry stories

Living on a boat means to have (almost) everything within a small place similar to an appartement or house on land. Unless you go for diner each and every day a...

7 years 7 seas - Baltic sea 2014

June 2014, two months before we bought Luna Mare, the boat we are now living on, we did our first baltic sea sailing. We sailed two weeks from Travemünde/German...

7 years 7 seas - Our way so far

This map shows our sailing so far. Beginning of June 2017 we started in Travemünde/Germany. After sailing the Baltic sea for two months we headed south and arri...

7 years 7 seas - midsummer in Sweden

Midsummer fest 2017 in Sweden on the Island Gotland....

7 years 7 seas - Sweden/Gotland

This picture shows us on Luna Mare just arriving at Gotland/Sweden. Someone from a camping ground nearby took it and came later to the marina, where we stayed, ...

7 years 7 seas - Sweden

Our Luna Mare in June 2017 in Ystad/Sweden....