To stay true to our Explore - Learn – Share, we had to try the Kava of the South Pacific. We read up on it long before we dropped anchor in Fiji in September 2023. Now was time to EXPLORE it and LEARN something about a 3.000-year-old tradition.
After arriving Fiji in the beginning of September 2023, we spent three weeks back and forth between marina life at Vuda Marina and tourist life in Musket cove. After having Escape on land for maintenance Read more…
Vetle had an encounter with a Grey Shark in Tahanea in French Polynesia. He did not panic, kept hands and feet together always facing the shark. Exactly what to do.
We are members of Ocean Cruising Club (OCC). It is a club for blue water cruisers with some miles under the keel. We regularly publish articles in the club magazine – the Flying Fish. Below Read more…
It sneaked up on us yesterday evening. At night. Late. Ten minutes before midnight. It starts in Kiribati, a small island group just west of the international date line. In 1994 the government of Kiribati Read more…
I sat on the side of our dinghy with my feet already in the water. We, Theresa, Morgan from Nomadica and myself, had just arrived the false pass at Totegegie, an island in the Gambier Read more…
We have had request for ‘The ESCAPE red cap’ ever since we wrote about it in our blog here. It is a cool cap that can be used for sun or rain We then decided Read more…
Time has passed since we published our first YouTube video and we have learnt more about making the videos. Here is our new intro that shall be used on all our episodes – shorter, more Read more…
Today is New Year 2021/22. New year 2020 we spent on the Atlantic on our way to Barbados. This episode show our crossing – how we make and break routines and how we spend our Read more…
S1E4 is out. This time we enjoy the fantastic Islands of Cape Verde, Mindelo. Now we are 16N and in trade wind latitudes. Before setting sail for The Atlantic, we celebrated Christmas 2019 and prepared Read more…
S1E4 is out. This time we sail from Portugal to Madeira and make a stopover in Gran Canaria for lots of stainless work on sy Escape. Follow the link and read up on it. We Read more…
S1E3 is out and we push on. This time we leave the north behind and arrive warmer waters after a bumpy ride across the Bay of Biscay. Click on the video (below) to see our Read more…
Statsraad Lehmkuhl arrived Wilhelmstadt / Curacao this morning as a part of their One Ocean Expedition. The video is a teaser for our Season 3. We have spent August – December 2021 in Curacao getting Read more…
we finally arrived Curacao after 14 months of waiting. We are ready for the next chapter in our Explore- Learn - Share
‘On behalf of the entire Ocean Cruising Club I’m delighted to congratulate you onbeing chosen to receive the David Wallis Trophy for 2020 for your delightfulFlying Fish story entitled, Voyagin With Vetle’. To our big Read more…
The VHF radio sparked again. It was 4 am on March 20th. I was setteling in for the final approach to Curacao. ‘sy Escape, this is the Curacao coast guard. Please answer‘. I pushed the Read more…
read about the events on an uneventful Atlantic crossing...
We now have the nicest bowsprit not only in Pasito Blanco, but sy Escape is the first First to have such a solid base for anchor, gennaker and whatever else we decide to fly from Read more…
It started with a ‘Hola‘. I was in the boat in Pasito Blanco, sweating it out after doing some cleaning downstairs. ‘Hola‘ I heard back and then I stuck my head out from under the Read more…
There is a place in the Kruger National Park in South Africa where one can sit and overlook the savanna. I do not remember exactly where in the park it is, but it is north. Read more…
It hit us yesterday breakfast time. Hit like too much red hot chili peppers. It is one year since we put out the ‘it is time‘ post. We had to re-read it to see what Read more…
We dont plan too much, but it is good to know where to put up the boat in Gran Canary preparing for the January 2020 crossing. We needed to know where we would put up Read more…
You have probably seen it. The guys – yes mostly guys – in their red trousers strolling dockside. Occasionally the red trousers are accompanied with a navy blue sweater over the shoulders. Smooth, but there Read more…
We are approaching 2019 and it is the kick-off for the Escape West 1st season. Until now, it has been preparations, but come spring – it is for real. We have now updated our 2019 and Read more…
sy Escape has instruments from Navico / Brookes & Gatehouse (B&G). They have worked well and our trusted autopilot – Seid – have steered us through calm and choppy waters since 2000. But, on a Read more…
It is time now. Time to go, time to EXPLORE, time to LEARN and time to share. It is not like we have not explored or learned from the previous ten years of zigzagging the Read more…