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• Our experiences cruising Papua New Guinea

  I’ve just finished a short summary of our visit to the Eastern and Northeastern Islands of PNG. This area used to be quite popular, but for the last decade rumours of violence and crime (that are certainly true for parts of the mainland) have kept sailboats kept away. We enjoyed the little islands very much and would like to encourage more cruisers to visit–the islanders… Continue reading »

• Cruising Info Papua New Guinea

  In 2024 and 2025 we spent a few months cruising the outer atolls and islands in the NE and N of Papua New Guinea. We were hesitant at first whether we should sail there at all, because of negative reports about crime and harassment of sailors. We were positively surprised to get a very friendly welcome wherever we went, the only complaint the locals had… Continue reading »

• 15% discount on all Pitufino models!

  The season-start discount is coming to an end–just one more week Order your Pitufino now and get 15% discount! There’s a brandnew model out: Pitufino V1.2 comes with analogue inputs, digital outputs and Victron ports for battery monitors, etc. More info on the Pitufino webpage

• 30 years together

  … and the last 14 of these years 24/7 365 aboard our Pitufa–I suppose these count double?? We got lucky and found each other as teenagers, so we got to grow (up) together

• Installing a solar system for Simon’s Nature Reserve

  We’ve been busy all week, but now the solar installation for Simon is finished! Christian (and plenty of helping hands) mounted 3 of our used panels together to have one big panel Then Simon’s brother Charles built a post where the panel will have a maximum of sunshine Then we had to lead a mighty long cable high up to keep it safe from playing… Continue reading »

• A shipment from Australia to the Solomons

  We ordered a new chain and new solar panels from Australia and had them sent to a freightforwarding company and they were meant to send them here on a containership. Sounds simple, but it turned into an epic story when OPFL in Brisbane after being super responsive suddenly no longer reacted to emails or calls. Just when we were convinced that they had sold all… Continue reading »

• Shopping in Honiara

  We’ve just spent 3 days on Honiara’s dusty roads chasing parts for the mooring and solar installation and of course we’ve done some more provisioning for ourselves. Once again everything went fine, nothing got stolen and yesterday we sailed over to Simon’s bay again! We didn’t get much sleep in the loud and rolly anchorage in Honiara and this time Christian caught a big-city bug,… Continue reading »

• Photos of Simon’s Nature Reserve

• Support for Simon’s nature reserve

  Google maps shows a place called “Simon’s Nature Reserve” in a bay on the Florida Islands just north of Honiara and intrigued by the name we anchored, not knowing what to expect. An eco lodge? A nature park with a guard? Turns out Simon is just a local man living in a hut ashore, but he has dedicated the past 20 years to protecting the… Continue reading »

• Honiara, capital of the Solomons

  Anchoring We were warned not to go to Honiara by sailboat as the anchorage has a bad reputation for bad holding, bouncy conditions and crime. Well, I suppose we got lucky: we found a good anchor spot off the breakwater cafe (a big thank you to Fred, the owner, who let us use their dock and helped with advice) and with a few days of… Continue reading »

• Sailing towards Honiara

  The only times we get north or northwest wind is when a cyclone or low passes south of us. With some patience we managed to sail all the way down from northern PNG riding those winds. This week a low south of Guadalcanal brought strong winds and floodings to Honiara–and brought us a weather window to sail down from New Georgia to the Florida Islands… Continue reading »

• 8 months of Smurfy aboard

  Incredible, but true, our kitten’s already grown up. He’s still a bit crazy, but getting better (or so we tell ourselves). Unfortunately there’s no veterinary in the Solomon Islands, so we still haven’t been able to have him neutered. For now we just hope that he won’t start marking his territory anytime soon as he can smell neither competing rivals nor lady cats out here… Continue reading »

• Convergence Zone weather sailing (motoring)

  We have a shipment arriving in Honiara, the capital of the Solomons, mid May (new solar panels, a new anchor chain, etc. coming on a container ship), so we should slowly make our way southeast towards Honiara before the trade winds set in. No problem, we thought, even though there’s not much wind we’ll just do short hops with little puffs of wind, it’s only… Continue reading »

• Squid egg spread

  We often have groups of squid and cuttlefish hanging out around the boat. They are really interesting to watch communicating with each other with intricate changes of colour, swimming forwards, backwards and even sideways looking like aliens. We always wondered why they were so interested in the anchor chain, now we know: they are looking for a convenient substrate to attach their eggs! The poor… Continue reading »

• Shopping in Gizo

  We’ve just spent two days anchored off Gizo, one of the bigger towns of the Solomons, but it’s really just a village. The anchorage would be rough in trade wind conditions, but it was nicely calm and protected in NW winds (when we were there). Gizo has the mouldy charm of one of the less charming Caribbean islands with (corroded) corrogated iron everywhere, muddy streets… Continue reading »