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Christian

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Name: Christian
Date registered: September 21, 2010

Latest posts

  1. Finally! Photos of our mooring project in Rapa Iti — February 10, 2019
  2. Part 2 of our Anchoring Article in All-at-Sea January 19 — January 12, 2019
  3. New article in Ocean7 — January 6, 2019
  4. 2018 — ein abenteuerreiches Jahr — December 23, 2018
  5. 2018–A year full of adventures — December 23, 2018

Most commented posts

  1. Change of plans — 10 comments
  2. Prevailing Ocean Winds — 6 comments
  3. Anchor windlass overhaul — 5 comments
  4. We are sailing! — 4 comments
  5. Boa Vista — 4 comments

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Feb
10

Finally! Photos of our mooring project in Rapa Iti

by Christian

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Jan
12

Part 2 of our Anchoring Article in All-at-Sea January 19

by Christian

Birgit Hackl, Christian Feldbauer: Anchoring Games: Part Two–Techniques for Special Conditions, All At Sea Caribbean, January 2019, p. 36–40. Free download from allatsea.net.

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Jan
06

New article in Ocean7

by Christian

Birgit Hackl, Christian Feldbauer: Die kleinen Dinge des Bootslebens, OCEAN7 1 (Jan./Feb.) 2019, p. 48–50

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Dec
23

2018–A year full of adventures

by Christian

For Pitufa and her crew, 2018 was a very exciting year. We visited many new places, some of them were rather off the beaten track and some were real nature paradises. We made several new friends with locals and enjoyed Polynesian hospitality over and over. We started our tour in January 2018 from Rapa Iti in the Austral Islands and we are back in Rapa… Continue reading »

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Dec
20

Photos of our stop in Tubuai

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Dec
08

Article on Anchoring in All-at-Sea Magazine

by Christian

Birgit Hackl, Christian Feldbauer: Anchoring Games: Part One–Material and Basic Maneuvers, All At Sea Caribbean, December 2018, p. 30–34. Free download from allatsea.net.

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Nov
21

Weather forecasts for cruising in and around French Polynesia

by Christian

I’ve just put a page on our blog that, on the one hand, summarizes all weather forecasts we’re using on Pitufa. It includes weather bulletins, surface-analysis charts, cyclone warnings, El-Niño discussions, and of course all Saildocs codes. On the other hand, the page also embeds all those current forecasts, so it may be a convenient all-in-one weather site for cruisers in French Polynesia.… Continue reading »

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Nov
06

Photos of Rurutu

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Oct
31

Photos of Maria (Austral Islands)

by Christian

And here’s yet another one:

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Oct
30

Cruising info on Rurutu

by Christian

We added a small cruising guide about Rurutu (Austral Islands) to our blog, click here to read it.

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Oct
28

Article about Pitufa’s Atlantic crossing

by Christian

There is a new article in the current issue (Nov./Dec.) of Ocean7 as well as in the November issue of All at Sea Caribbean. It’s about our Atlantic crossing in 2011/12 and what we think about the ARC. Birgit Hackl, Christian Feldbauer: Why we chose not to join an organized rally, All At Sea Caribbean, November 2018, p. 36–38. Free… Continue reading »

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Oct
25

Pics from Rarotonga

by Christian

And here’s the next delayed one:

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Oct
23

Photos of Aitutaki

by Christian

At the moment our galleries are quite delayed because we are either at remote places without any Internet or busy exploring and taking new pictures Here a few snapshots from Aitutaki in the Southern Cook Islands.

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Oct
18

Touring around the Austral Islands

by Christian

After an excursion through the Cook Islands, Pitufa is back in French Polynesia! We are currently in the ‘Archipel des Australes’ and hop from island to island, starting with Maria in the Northwest and finishing with Rapa Iti in the Southeast.

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Oct
16

Time for a new generation?

by Christian

When we bought Pitufa 10 years ago, she was equipped with navigation instruments by Robertson/Simrad which were already 10 years old then. We are still using these instruments, despite their growing need for life-sustaining measures. About five years ago, the mast top unit of the wind instrument was the first component to quit. On the passage from Galapagos to French Polynesia we soon learned to… Continue reading »

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