I regularly dial into the webinar series "Blue Water Sailing" run by Grand Large Yachting Group in association with Yachting World. If...

George and Kaci from the US started cruising on their power cat in 2019. As they are planning to cruise much further than a power cat...

From the moment you entered this world, you were utterly dependent on caregivers to tend to your every need. When seeing the first...

“Journeys are the midwives of thought“ says Alain de Botton in his book “The Art of travel”. A creative metaphor that journeys and...

When you write a weekly blog, you eventually get to a point where you can’t think of anything to write. Yes, there should be plenty of...

Romain, Lien, Agathe, Alice & Mia have not cast off yet but are eagerly preparing their world cruising adventure. Little Mia was only...

A personal view on seeking a happy and healthy life. German philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach coined the phrase “We are what we eat”, and he...

Following the successful posts about Sailing Alma, Feel the Breeze and SV Rehua I reached out to some more lovely sailing people to see...

The wind blows with 40 knots gusting 55, surrounded by 8m swells the whitecaps look like bloody mountains. Every now and then, another...

Our oceans cover 71% of our planet and their currents govern the world's weather and churn a multitude of life. As humans, we depend on...

I grew up in Northern Europe and spent a couple of holidays in Sweden and Finland but never had the chance to get to Norway. So when it...

Over the recent months, we have heard more and more news of "Killer Whales attacking Sailing Yachts in the Med". There has indeed been an...

Bikinis, Piña Coladas and white sandy beaches are not his class. At least not when it comes to sailing. Aptly named the "Viking of the...

Bluewater cruising during Covid times has its challenges as any skipper currently underway will tell you. Combine this with daily...

Hi, ho new and old subscribers. I am back online. As many of you know I was posting from my blog page lars.vc for the last 3 years. The...

Next to the catamaran vs. monohull discussion, the debate about old school navigation skills vs. electronic chart plotters and digital...

It’s about time I wrote about sailing again. There is too much going on in our world that could drive the best of us into depression. So...

I think I can hear you. “Not again one of these attention-seeking headlines…” you might be thinking. Don’t worry I actually mean it,...

In 1987 I met Wilfried Erdmann. I was 15 at that time and he had come to my hometown to give a talk about his 1984 to 85 non-stop, solo...

In my previous post I briefly mentioned the most recent bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef. A few people reached out and asked what that...

It is about time to re-focus mind and soul and continue our search for our future home. Being confined to our land based place combined...

Following my last rather aggressive rant I’ll try and tone down in this week’s blog post. That’s not to say I am in any way ok with...

So here we are. Only a few months ago I said to my wife that we are the “lucky generation”. We were lucky because we born into a world in...

21.03.2020 I have to write this down. Even if it is just to keep a historical record. At the time of writing this the SARS COV-2 virus...