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 is the article on our Pacific crossing in April 2022 – ‘The Pacific drift‘ as 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 decided that all of their 33 small atolls, spread over more than 5 million square 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 travels of look at a previous blog ‘ life after 50+‘ on this page to 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 send button ‘Good morning curacao coast guard, this is sy Escape‘. ‘Please state your intentions 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 North sea and Scandinavia waters, but now we need to cross new horizons together as Read more…