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
Sea trials are continuing. Today was spent testing the hybrid propulsion system. It works perfectly – 9.6 knots boat speed with the electrical motors, and very good regeneration results when sailing. We are happy with the results and the environement will be as well. Thanks to e
The sea trials in Xiamen are continuing & Moonwave is doing great. Each time we are again amazed by her performances. We are looking forward to a bit stronger winds to test her in all kind of conditions. Would you like
Great start of sea trials of Moonwave during last week with Peter Johnstone & Stephan. She looks and is very fast even in light winds … Next episode coming in few weeks You can also enjoy a short video about Moonwave’s first sea trials in our Movie section… Wou