I’m doubly lucky after a good night’s sleep. In the morning, many ships leave the marina, heading for Hamburg on the up moving tide. Then I can moor directly at the jetty, because I don’t need to leave right away, I want to go west; what’s the point of fighting the […]

If I’m ever in the area, I have to go to Haithabu! – You don’t know Haithabu? Ohoh, then I’ll help out a little: This is where one of the most important long-distance trading centres in Europe at the time was established in the 8th century – this is where the ‘Vikings’ came together after […]

I’m awake before everyone else, showered and in the mood to set off. There’s a gentle breeze today, which is immediately noticeable – today we’re going to ride. But I have to clarify: Vitte is not on Rügen, but on a long island a few hundred metres to the west called Hiddensee! The two islands […]

Now a few days went over, the storm seems to have passed (Martina has returned home 😉 and I don’t like to wait any longer. I don’t like, like many sailors here, to sit in the cockpit all day – this waiting for nothing. I don’t have a cosy cockpit, no […]

Thanks to a tip from a group of sailors from Estonia, we do not sail directly from Gdansk to the Danish holiday island of Bornholm, as initially planned, but to an island north of it called Christiansø!

Check the map – the island is so tiny that it’s hard to find. Thanks to GPS and autopilot, […]

The crossing from Klaipeda to Gdansk is actually no problem, provided the sea is calm, if it weren’t for the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad in between – without this Russian bastion, Poland and the Baltic states would not have been able to leave the Warsaw Pact after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the […]

Today we have only a stone’s throw to go: about 110 km or two hours to Klaipeda, a harbour and cultural city in Lithuania. Previously, we tried to moor at Palanga; Palanga is THE Lithuanian summer holiday destination with many kilometres of white sandy beaches, lots of people and a lively atmosphere – but there […]

The journey to Liepaja, Latvia’s third largest city with a population of around 80,000, proved to be a ‘tough exercise’: at first, the weather was wonderful with almost glassy seas, and we enjoyed doing nothing (after the previous, rather rough night). The ArgoFram did its job easily and led us in […]

Another glorious summer morning awaits us; we stroll into the small ‘old town’ and indulge in specialities from a bakery that seems to have remained unchanged since Martina was a child. But then we set off, wanting to continue to Riga, the capital of Latvia and ‘only’ about three and a […]

I am depressed and excited at the same time! – All plans are wastepaper: First, in early summer, Norway closed the borders because of ‘Corona’, consequently a trip around the North Cape to the White Sea to St. Petersburg was not possible. Then, when I wanted to enter St. Petersburg directly […]