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Dates and numbers on the last trip

dafdaf — Fri, 13 Jun 2014 00:40:59 +0000

This is a post for the sailing nerds – so to say. I like to look at the numbers and as this was our fastest trip of the last three years it’s even more fun.

Ok here comes: From Tanna, around NewCal towards Brisbane we travelled a total of 1238nm and it took us 219 hours to do that. This gives an awesome average speed of 5,70 knots ! Top speed (with a wave pushing from behind) was 9.9kn. The daily logs (24hours from noon to noon) were: 141, 144, 150, 126, 136, 142, 125, 130 and 123nm.

The wind on average came from SE with a force of 5. Minimum of S2 and maximum of S9 (measured: 42 knots). We never met more ships than on this trip. Out on the open ocean we met two fishing vessels, two tankers and one cruise ship. And during the approach to Brisbane we met another six ships. The drive up the river was a whole different story. We that we have stayed on tropical islands for these last years and never saw a real city… now suddenly we have to navigate a river with speed ferries zomming in and out, hundereds of ships anchored everywhere, buoys, moorings, jetties…. a lot of current. And everything is so bright ! And the eyes as well as the skipper who hasn’t slept the last 48 hours are a bit overwhelmed… But everything goes well, we find a nice spot to anchor and sleep the best sleep ever. The one of sailors who arrive in a safe harbour after a rough trip.

Oh. And I’ve got a little video too. It’s a bit boring but sailors might enjoy it anyways…

Storm sailing – the video

dafdaf — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 02:15:57 +0000

Just a very short clip made during the front that hit us on the way to Tonga:

Underwater damage, a movie

dafdaf — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 00:52:58 +0000

A few days after our accident, I tried to capture the damages on film. You can’t see much unless you pause the movie a lot of times, I guess. But anyway, here it is.

A fresh breeze brings fresh thoughts

dafdaf — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 01:30:25 +0000

To escape the depressing life on a shipwreck and the endless ToDo-lists, we had a visit to the blowhole on the east side of Tahiti some days ago. Here’s a short clip. Enjoy.

The big splash – she’s in the water again

dafdaf — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 02:32:34 +0000

As I personally couldn’t take part of the rescue operation, I concentrated on documenting this incredible undertaking. The outcome: 830 pictures and 13 HD videos. Because internet here is way too slow to upload a lot, here’s a small snippet of the big moment:

The passage through the Panama Canal – timelapse

dafdaf — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 00:17:25 +0000

Better late than never. I finally found the time to put together this little movie of our canal passage. We had the GoPro mounted on the wind generator and it made about 1400 pictures during our passage. Now I’ve put them together as a little movie. Enjoy:

For Wendy, our windsteering

dafdaf — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:34:14 +0000

A little boring for non-sailors. But we had to upload a video showing our most hardworking crewmember: Wendy, our Windpilot. She keeps the Rancho Relaxo of the Seas on course, while the laziest crew of the world is lying in the shadow. Well – that’s for you, Wendy:

A view of the Carlisle Bay from the top of the mast

dafdaf — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:26:40 +0000

Yeah ! Today I’m really motivated. The internet connection is good and so here comes the next batch of photos:

A little view around the anchorage. The beach, our lovely neighbour-friends, etc. And the captain who removes his Atlantic-beard. Sad – but with that much hair in the face it’s impossible to go diving. So the sacrifice had to be made and now the Rancho Relaxo is with a skipper who’s white in the face. Hehehe.

And especially for you: A video of the captain climbing the mast to get you a nice view of our surroundings. Beautiful – isn’t it ?

Snorkeling at the anchorage

dafdaf — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:37:40 +0000

Finally I’ve found some time to write about Barbados. I thought I’m gonna start with a little snorkeling tour. Yesterday the LosLocos picked up Tim at the SY Kira and we took the dinghy to drive about half a mile to the other side of the bay.

There are three wrecks in very shallow water. Plenty of fish but unfortunately the sight was quite bad. Well, enjoy the videos:

Our Christmas storm

dafdaf — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:01:54 +0000

A few pics and two short videos from our christmas storm on the 25th of December 2011.

The storm started at 0900UTC from a flat calm and increased to 8-9 Beaufort. It stayed like this for approximately five hours. The sea got really bad after a few hours and we had to steer by hand most of the time. We were carried north for about 30 miles while riding in front of the wind. After that the wind almost immediately fell to a calm again and we were left in a confuse sea for a couple of hours. Next day the tradewind was back with a steady force six that lasted until we arrived in Barbados.

Mit Actionvideo:

Und noch ein kleiner Clip:

Baking bread on the Atlantic

dafdaf — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:21:56 +0000

A short clip showing Wolfgang while preparing to bake bread. Cooking is quite funny while sailing in a force six wind. Hehe.

Even more Dolphins !

dafdaf — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 22:30:57 +0000

On our way from Lanzarote to Teneriffe we had something in between 30 and 50 Dolphins circling and playing around the Rancho Relaxo of the Seas. I’ve made another underwater video as well as one from above. Enjoy:

First the dolphins from above:

And the new underwater video:

…sorry for the dalayed post but it took me a couple of tries and endless hours to upload the video.

Dolphins leading the Rancho Relaxo towards Lanzarote

dafdaf — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 23:56:23 +0000

An nice littele Dolphin video. I’m really sorry that the camera was not ready (or I’m just too slow) but the video is really quite short. But nice water quality anyway. See for yourself:

Uh, I think I feel sick…

dafdaf — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:26:21 +0000

When I’m writing that we’ve shakey sailing, it looks something like this. Enjoy (that you’re not on bord).

The kids of course don’t even think about the movement. They are looking a book about fishing while waiting for someone to cook dinner. Hehehe.

The Rancho Relaxo of the Seas running ultra high speed

dafdaf — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 01:57:05 +0000

We’ve never been this fast. 157 nautical miles in one day ! Here’s the video:

The Rancho Relaxo races around Cabo Raso

dafdaf — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 10:52:40 +0000

A short clip showing the Rancho Relaxo of the Seas in her element: racing downwind with 5-6 Beaufort while going 7-8 knots. That truly was a wonderful trip !

…and up the Rio Tejo towards Lisboa:

School starts on bord the Rancho Relaxo

dafdaf — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 10:38:49 +0000

This is actually one week old. – The first minutes of bord school with Bruno, Viola and Gui. Enjoy !

Dolphins – the (promised) video

dafdaf — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 11:41:58 +0000

On the way from Spain to Portugal once more Dolphins payed us a visit. And this time I got our GoPro cam mounted on the boat hook and tried to film them while they were playing around the ship. The video is a little short as I didn’t know whether it would work at all and also we were going quite fast and it was difficult to not loose the boat hook… Enjoy.

Rancho Relaxo – the Video (of the Solent)

dafdaf — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:59:50 +0000

Michael just sent us this great video he made during our last week’s trip through the solent. Uuuh, that really was a nice week. I’m gonna watch it again….

Video Cuxhaven -> Borkum

dafdaf — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:15:03 +0000

Today in the morning we arrived in Den Helder (Netherlands) and right now I’m enjoying the fast internet connection of a hotel in the neighbourhood and am uploading a short video of our Trip from Cuxhaven to Borkum.

The trip from Borkum to Den Helder was quite uneventful. There was little to no wind and we had to use the engine a lot. But the night was beautiful – we saw our first dolphins (?) and during the night the waves surrounding the Rancho Relaxo were full of floursescent light. Fantastic !

Just a few moments ago our friends Silke and Dieter stopped next to the Rancho Relaxo and invited us to a BBQ at 19h. Yay !! So we’ll spend the evening discussing the events of the last weeks and planning our trip towards England. There should be favourable winds in the next 2-3 days so actually we probably will not really stop for Amsterdam but head South to Belgium. Well, we’ll see. The weather seems to be full of surprises.

You have to tidy up your room !!

dafdaf — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 09:12:37 +0000

Breakfast with the LosLocos. Despite all the chaos, I still put the video. Hehehe. Enjoy the music ! Bruno rocks. ;-)

Ah ! And in this instant Mr. Freudenstein of the equally named company and he makes my day because he will do the mount for our Cutter-stay ! Yay !!!

Two more short video clips

dafdaf — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 20:35:27 +0000

Two more completely uneventful short clips from our last trip. Next time, there’ll be action and sound. Promised !

I also wanted to do a little video-tour through the Rancho Relaxo but before that we’d have to eliminate all the chaos here… We’ll see… remind me later…

Arrived in Flensburg

dafdaf — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:52:00 +0000

Another nice ride across the Baltic sea. It always amazes me: there’s wind with a force of 5 and the waves are 1 to 2.5 meters BUT the distance between the waves is less than our ship’s length. This makes sailing in the baltic always quite ‘interesting’. But our ancient windvane was steering well and we had a really nice and fast sail.

We started about 12:30 from Fehmarn and arrived 64nm later at 03h in the morning in Flensburg. Here we try to get a new main sail and improve our rigging – a necessity for the North sea. Well here’s a short clip from our trip:

Anti-foul !!

dafdaf — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 20:19:32 +0000

Mmmmh. Every boat owner likes it ! Doing anti-fouling once a year. This saturday we spent scraping the old paint from last season off the hull. Niiiiiice work ! Here’s a stop motion video done with our new Go-Pro cam: (to be continued)

Rancho Relaxo on fire ?!?

dafdaf — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:59:40 +0000

Just received horrible news via Email: It seems that there was a catastrophic fire in the shipyard where the Rancho Relaxo currently resides. I do not have much information but it seems that one of the main halls has burned down and so have the ships being inside.

Here are some pics, I found on the internets Pics are made by Andreas Meyer, (C) Berliner Tagesspiegel:

Pics deleted on Request of Mr. Meyer.

The Berliner Morgenpost also has a short Video of the fire:

Update: And a couple of more pictures, found on the webpage of the RBB. As one can see the ship in font of ours as well as the big crane at the waterside, I guess, the Rancho Relaxo is safe. Uff !

From the Hanseboot

dafdaf — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 22:30:58 +0000

Well, the Hanseboot… Before I went, I didn’t really know what to do there – and yet, somehow it was fun. I once again met with Silke and Dieter, who will start their journey with Tamora around the same time, we’re planning to. We always have a lot to discuss – Watermaker, Solar Panels, what courses to take during the last months… I hope we’ll meet many people as warmhearted and helpful !

Together with Michael I was strolling the exhibition halls talking to sailmakers and looking at shiny new boats.

What else ? There wasn’t much. See for yourself ! ;-)

Gemuetlich segeln durch’s Stettiner Haff (mit Video)

dafdaf — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:14:13 +0000

Vergangenes Wochenende waren wir mit Tala, Wolfgang, Jan und der Rancho Relaxo unterwegs auf dem Stettiner Haff. Zwischenziel: Stettin in Polen. Das war ein verdammt lustiges Wochenende. Eine etwas laengere Beschreibung mit Fotos folgt spaeter. Erst mal ein kurzes Video mit Wolfgang am Steuer, Tala an der Gitarre und Jan im Cockpit liegend ;-)

Biddesehr:

Bruno, auf dem Weg zur Kita.

dafdaf — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:03:00 +0000

Ja, Bruno faehrt jetzt selbst mit dem Rad zur Kita. Mit Video: