Embarking on a live-aboard life or a part-time live aboard life (meaning you move onboard for the time of the sailing season) imposes a change on the whole family and often radical decisions on the children's education. Often, while you are engaged full time in a corporate life and cruising only on weekends, the question...
Unless it is a brand-new boat and you took all the manufacturer’s options, know that your boat is a project boat. The learning is never over. We have to carve this time out to read and experiment. This time means safety at sea and will avoid you a painful couple counselling. Doing yourself a...
Logo Island Cruising family To us, the sea turtle incarnates all the endangered marine species and reminds us of our mission for wildlife and ocean preservation In the Polynesian culture the turtle symbolises the well-being, the union, the family but also a less known symbol: the navigator. We needed no more for it to become our emblem. OUR...
To us, the best travel memories are often the encounters with wildlife. In Malta and the Mediterranean Sea where we are sailing, the most impressive encounters still are with the dolphins. Travelling at sea and practicing water sports, we are lucky to meet different species of dolphins and whales, turtles, seahorses, or more exotically penguins or lion...
It was the end of the summer season and we were doing sailboats’ visits in Malta dreaming of our yacht but simply could not find anything right for us. Left with no other option, we considered the foreign market. But as newbies the simple questions ‘Where can we find a good boat?’ and “Where can...
1. Remember the helm is his. Don’t get close except if you have been invited to. 2. The sails can always be adjusted a little bit more. We could well sail half a knot faster. 3. Unless you have a PhD in marine mechanics, you don’t know his inboard engine. 4. There no such thing as helping him a beer...