On my boat I have an Eberspächer D1LC (12V) from 1996 which never really worked correctly. After taking it apart a couple of times, fixing some loose contacts, trying to understand how it works electrically, etc, I decided to give him a last chance and bought new spares, the last identified dead component was the […]
Author: mirco
Spread your wings and learn to gybe
My dearest reader, and also the rest, time sails away, doesn’t it? I left you in Oban, remember? After that, Yaniv went to Loch Aline, Tobermory, Sanna Bay, Loch Ceann Traigh, Arisaig, Eigg, Mallaig, Loch Na Dal, Balmacara Bay, Raasay, Portree, Rona, Gairloch, Duntulm Bay, Scalpay, Stornoway, Loch Grimshader, Loch Roe, Kinlochbervie, Orkney (Stromness, S. […]
The vessel has set sail
Go! After some try-sailing and try-anchoring, on May 22nd (AD 2023 Ed.) we started our trip, voyage, cruise, vacation, quest, journey, expedition, or whatever you want to call it. Let’s go through what we have done in the first month. Isle of Bute & Tarbert From Ardrossan, where we prepared our boat, we headed to […]
Ready, set, almost go!
Here I am again, no we have not set sail yet, calm down, what’s all this stress? Whose idea was it to live on the boat already in March? Way too cold! The first weeks were freezing cold. During the night the temperatures went down to -5°C, it was so cold that the condensation regularly […]
Sailing 2023
It slowly starts to become real. I quit my job and bought a sailboat, in a couple of months it’s time to start sailing! (Sound’s a little bit cheesy, I know, but it has been my dream for a couple of years, don’t judge me for that)The boat is currently lying in Ardrossan (Scotland) on […]
Summer ’20
Well, this was a special summer. Not particularly because of COVID-19 (I don’t want to call it Corona, I want to keep a professional distance between us), but since my girlfriend and I lived on a sailboat (from the end of May to the beginning of October). A lot of things happened. I don’t want to bore […]
Since the grandparents of Saskia (my girlfriend) have a sailboat, KAJO 6, and are not using it anymore, we decided to try to live on it this summer. KAJO 6 is 9.5 m long steel sailing yacht (or 31 feet in retarded units) and weights about 7 tons. I’ll simply call it sailboat since yacht […]
China ‘19
Cuba ’18
This was originally posted on 2018-02-18 on my sister’s travel blog (dead link) . As you probably not now, I, Marina’s brother, went to Cuba with the intent to visit to my sister on her world trip. My original plan was to visit Urs and Marina in Mexico, but after being a little bit scared […]