One of the “trademarks” of Singapore is the busy shipping traffic. There are hundreds and hundres of cargo ships, tankers, tow boats and ferries in the traffic separation lanes, crossing and at the anchorages. Navigation in this area requires a lot of attention, by day and

We joined the yacht Moonwave off the island of Phuket and within hours we were blasting downwind towards another island. It was a fantastic short hop to blow the cob webs away from the 20 hours of flights from London. In a beautiful bay we anchored and settled into our very comfortabl

Since two days were / are “checking out” the waters around Phuket for our next “family cruise” in February. First we went north to discover the bay of Phang Nga – hundreds of islands, some hidden caves and beautiful landscapes. We cruised very quiet (we l

Moonwave is really a pleasure to sail and cruise. Today we went to Royal Phuket Marina to get some fuel. On the way there we were flying the big yellow kite, just the two of us. She is so well reacting and a real gem. Please see the pics below…   P.S. (30th Jan 2013) : This

Greetings from sunny Phuket, Thailand !!! We had a great trip from Singapore to Phuket with our 10 guests on board. This cruise offered a lot of different aspects of sailing and life on board and lots of fun. Thank you guys – it was a pleasure having you on board!!! Here are som

We had a great sail as close as 3 nm of Raffles Marina under sail only… Must sail that the shipping activity point of view Hong Kong was quiet busy but Singapore is just impressive. None of us had ever seen that many cargo ships and tankers concentrated at such a short coast lin

By the look at the chart plotter, we can notice that Singapore isn’t that far anymore… One of the busiest shipping harbors in the world. All the triangles on the screen show other vessels, some of this cargo ships are over 1100 ft long and really huge. More news from Moonw

We are very lucky of spending a beautiful day on board with sunshine, blue sky and little breeze. The wind has dropped down a bit and finally the water got blue again. We are still on a port tack now flying our red 200sqm spinnaker. With the full mainsail a total of 344sqm of sail, no

Today’s seatrials went great, at the beginning not a lot of wind – perfect conditions to test the integrated MOM-8 Man-Over-Board safety equipment, which worked great – and Sophie got picked up again after the test :-) Later there was a nice light breeze. We continue

Today we had a great day of seatrial. Moonwave doesn’t only look stunning, she also sails amazing: Solent, Screecher, big yellow Spinnaker – we tried them all & did 20.6 knots of boat speed, might have been very close to fly a hull…   Would you like to come