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Skipper Flensburg – Sønderborg – Svendborg – Faaborg – Aabenraa – Flensburg Denmark · Danish South Sea
Round trip in the western Baltic.
Sailing
I sail as skipper and hold the Austrian ÖSV FB3 licence. The Baltic, Greece and Turkey, Italy, Sardinia and the Balearics, the Seychelles and Thailand. Navigation, weather, seamanship and a crew that works as one.
At sea
Long passages. Quiet craft.
Sailing is seamanship. Reading the weather, keeping the boat in good order, planning the route and adjusting it. Decisions at sea rest on incomplete information, and the sea tests every one of them. The same question runs through my research.
Personal
Map
From the Baltic to the Andaman Sea.
The Baltic, Greece and Turkey, Italy, Sardinia and Corsica, the Balearics, the Seychelles and Thailand. The Caribbean is next.
Sailing areas. Routes are indicative.
Tours
Where the boat has been.
A selection of past tours. Each one with its own waters, weather and crew. Every tour sailed as skipper.
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Skipper Palma – Ibiza Balearics · Mallorca
Across the Balearic Sea.
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Skipper Port d'Alcúdia – Menorca Balearics · Menorca
Across the Menorca Channel.
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Skipper Olbia – Bonifacio Sardinia and Corsica
Across the Strait of Bonifacio to Corsica.
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Skipper Naples – Capri – Amalfi – Salerno Italy · Amalfi Coast
From the Gulf of Naples along the Amalfi Coast.
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Skipper Salerno – Capri – Sorrento – Ischia – Salerno Italy · Gulf of Naples
Round trip through the Gulf of Naples.
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Skipper Athens – Hydra Greece · Saronic Gulf
Through the Saronic Gulf.
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Skipper Athens – Mykonos Greece · Cyclades
Across the Aegean into the Cyclades.
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Skipper Fethiye – Marmaris Turkey · Southwest coast
West along the southwest coast.
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Skipper Fethiye – Kaş Turkey · Lycian coast
East along the Lycian coast.
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Skipper Mahé – Praslin – La Digue – Mahé Seychelles · Inner Islands
Round trip through the granite islands.
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Skipper Phuket – Krabi – Ko Lanta – Ko Muk – Ko Phi Phi – Phuket Thailand · Andaman Sea
Round trip from Phuket.
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Next Next: the Caribbean Caribbean
The next sailing area, in planning.
Seamanship
What the sea demands.
Three parts of the craft. Each one is also a question of deciding under uncertainty.
Navigation · crew · weather.
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Navigation
Charts, instruments and an eye on the water. The forecast shifts, the destination stays. You adjust the route and keep the aim.
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Crew
A small boat is a small organisation. Roles overlap, communication stays precise, and whoever reads the situation best takes the lead.
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Weather
Conditions change, and yesterday's plan becomes the wrong one. Good seamanship means watching, reassessing and acting in time.
A note is enough.
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