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The 'Oosterschelde' has left Puerto de Sóller at 15:30, to sail to Benicarló on the Spanish mainland. Here she will be undergoing maintenance at the dockyard for a number ...

We left Cabrera under sail. The wind was weak at first, but later that morning it increased up to 4 Bft and under full sail we sailed into the bay of Palma. At the end of ...

The storm did not reach Mallorca. In the Gulf of Lyon there was 50 knots of wind, on Menorca 8 à 9 Bft, but we only had 30 knots, 7 Bft. We used our time to visit the old ...

Weather predictions became a bit worse. Mallorca's south coast has a gale warning now as well, with a predicted wave height of 3 to 4 meters.
We thought it would be ...

After another sunny (and hot) day yesterday, we dropped anchor at Isla de Formentor, near the cape with the same name. There is still little wind, but for the coming night...

We visited some great bays of Mallorca. Last night we visited the Cala de Sa Calobra, where we used our recently reconditioned wooden boat.
Early this morning we left...

The harbour of Soller is situated beautifully in a small natural bay at the northern side of the island Mallorca. Directly after departure we set the sails and with a ...

We left Alicante yesterday afternoon. With a nice 5 Bft in the back, we had a nice sailing day towards the Islas Baleares. A few minutes ago (22:30 CEST) we dropped anchor...

Almost one year ago our crew and trainees prepared themselves for one of the most challenging parts of the global circumnavigation: the Cape Horn voyage.
On the 6th ...