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…
After starting my solo round-the- world journey I get hit by the first big challenge to overcome.
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…
The interior of SV Wolf needs a refit and new exciting equipment has to be installed. We drove 1,100 km from Austria back to the Netherlands to work on the boat and prepare it for what is coming.
The English Channel is one of the most treacherous bodies of water in the world. With several internationally important cargo ports in its region, it is one of the densest shipping routes worldwide and the strong low-pressure systems coming in from the North Atlantic provide rough weather. The English Channel is known for being a…
The North Sea is famous for its often heavy and extreme weather. Seen worldwide the North Sea has one of the highest storm averages and huge, aggressive waves can build up fast. And that’s what we got to experience firsthand. Why did the storm catch us? The original plan was to sail from the Netherlands…
The last half year was a lot of work and the refit is ultimately finished. Wolf was lifted out of the water back in autumn last year. We worked on her for months and now, just at the start of the season she finally got craned back into the water. You can read the full…
refit of a old sailboat. making a new interior and a new electric installation on the boat.
Last summer we transited the Kiel Canal from the Baltic Sea to the North Sea on Wolf. At first, it might seem scary and overwhelming to go through the Canal together with huge cargo vessels that also pass through, but in reality, it really isn’t that complicated, and pretty much everyone can do it on…