Caribbean

16
Jun
2023
Gallery – Cuba’s South

Gallery – Cuba’s South

The passage from Santiago de Cuba to Cienfuegos is wild! Uninhabited islands, magical reefs, many fish, few people. Provisions are no longer for sale, but finally we fish – and how! – Moreover, the lobster fishermen take us along on the hunt. However, we spend a lot of time not hunting, but looking. We dive in the Jardines de la Reina, the Queen’s Gardens, on fish-rich, wonderfully intact reefs, where we encounter sharks, barracudas and doris.

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10
Jun
2023
Gallery – Cuba Diving I

Gallery – Cuba Diving I

The Jardines de la Reina, the Queen’s Gardens, take our breath away. Coral bleaching seems to be a foreign word to the endless reefs in the south of Cuba. This is probably also due to the fact that the islands are all uninhabited and civilization seems far away. Only thanks to our diving compressor from Bauer Kompressoren we can do more than two dives.

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08
Jun
2023
Gallery – Santiago de Cuba

Gallery – Santiago de Cuba

Coming from the Dominican Republic, we reach Santiago de Cuba after a large arc around Haiti, various thunderstorm fronts and three days and nights. Mabul is stuffed with provisions, as we have already heard that the current supply situation is precarious, especially since the pandemic. We spend four days in Santiago, immerse ourselves in Cuban (night) life and take our friend Christoph on board, who will accompany us for the next few weeks.

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04
Jun
2023
Caribbean and conflicts – life on a sailboat

Caribbean and conflicts – life on a sailboat

Life on a sailing boat is more than just drinking gin and tonic at sunset. Karin Mandy Schielke from Deutschlandfunk Kultur explains how we had to completely rediscover our roles and why we would move back to a sailing boat at any time. Listen to the podcast “Plus Eins”:

https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/aussteiger-paar-zieht-auf-ein-segelboot-karibik-und-konflikte-dlf-kultur-12b7dafb-100.html

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14
May
2023
The finite story of the engine 1

The finite story of the engine 1

We are struggling with persistent engine problems. In retrospect, it has to be said, actually ever since we set out with Mabul in September 2022. Only we hadn’t really noticed it yet and I kept fighting symptoms but never found the causes. In this and the following blog, the failures, misfortunes and breakdowns of the engine will take us through our journey from St. Maarten to the BVIs to the south of the Dominican Republic.

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