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Reaching Mainland Europe

28. April 2021 von Ingo Kommentar verfassen

Faule Haut left Tenerife on April 12, 2021 heading for Gibraltar. She made a five day stop at Madeira, where she departured on April 22. After another six days of sailing she is nearing the southwest tip of Portugal, getting cell phone connection so that Skipper Ingo can make this post. More important however is the possibility now to get weather information via the Internet. Faule Haut does not have a Satelliten phone on board. This makes sailing sometimes a lottery game because she can’t avoid any bad weather areas and has to take the weather as it comes. Often, this resulted in encountering heavy thunderstorms and high waves. But the crew has been lucky on this leg. They just had rain for a few hours during this 17 days cruise from Tenerife.

FH just crossed the TSS (Traffic Separation Scheme)

Probably only two more days and Faule Haut will reach La Linea/Gibraltar, where the current crew will get off the boat. ETA (Estimated Time of Arrival) Gibraltar is Friday, April 30, 2021.

From Gibraltar on, Skipper Ingo will keep on sailing singlehand again towards his home port Vinaròs, 70 nm north of Valencia.
This means:
A GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO JOIN FAULE HAUL
TWO DOUBLE BERTH AVAILABLE ON FROM GIBRALTAR TO VINAROS (Valencia)
SAIL WITH FAULE HAUT! BECOME A PART OF THE CREW FOR A WEEK OR MORE.
Departure from La Linea/Gibraltar: May 1st or 2nd, 2021.
ETA Vinaros: May 5th, 2021
If potential crew wants, Faule Haut could make a three or four days stop at Ibiza or Mallorca.
More information about the boat on www.faule-haut.de and on
www.faule-haut.de/cruising-plan
Skipper Ingo, on Faule Haut, currently sailing along the southern coast of Portugal

Leaving Porto Santo

23. April 2021 von Ingo Kommentar verfassen

Faule Haut spent last night at anchor at the Island of Porto Santo (belonging to the Archipelago Da Madeira), and left, heading for La Linea/Gibraltar.

ETA Gibraltar: May 1st, 2021

This means:

TWO DOUBLE BERTH AVAILABLE ON FROM GIBRALTAR TO VINAROS (Valencia)

SAIL WITH FAULE HAUT! BECOME A PART OF THE CREW FOR A WEEK OR MORE.Departure from La Linea/Gibraltar: around 02.05.2021.

ETA Vinaros

: May 7th, 2021

If crew wants, Faule Haut could make a three or four days stop at Ibiza or Mallorca.

More information about the boat on www.faule-haut.de and on

www.faule-haut.de/cruising-plan

Skipper Ingo, on Faule Haut

Leaving Madeira

22. April 2021 von Ingo Kommentar verfassen

Faule Haut spent two days at anchor after the crew made their required COVID Test.

When the authorities send the negative test results via WhatsApp, the crew could take down the quarantine flag and pulled into the Port of Funchal for two days. After having spent four days at Madeira, Faule Haut just left the Marina Funchal, heading for La Linea/Gibraltar. Wind conditions are perfect, if the forecast is right.

Faule Haut should reach Gibraltar in about seven days. The crew (Ben, Till, Paul and

Skipper Ingo) might make a short stop at the Island of Porto Santo (belonging to the Archipelago Da Madeira) and anchor there for the night. They do have a real nice beach there. The current crew will get off the boat at Gibraltar. This means:

TWO DOUBLE BERTH AVAILABLE ON FROM GIBRALTAR TO VINAROS (Valencia)

SAIL WITH FAULE HAUT! BECOME A PART OF THE CREW FOR A WEEK OR MORE.
Departure from La Linea/Gibraltar: around 02.05.2021.

ETA Vinaros: 07.05.2021

If crew wants, Faule Haut could make a three or four days stop at Ibiza or Mallorca.

More information about the boat on www.faule-haut.de and on

www.faule-haut.de/cruising-plan

Skipper Ingo, on Faule Haut, currently leaving Madeira

Madeira

18. April 2021 von Ingo Kommentar verfassen

Faule Haut has reached Madeira, today in the morning at 01:15.

The cruise was exhausting, because they were facing the wind for five days in a row. But the crew was astonishing tough and managed to do the cooking every day on a rocking and rolling boat. Distance from Tenerife to Madeira is only 270 nm, but they had to tack (zigzag) all the way, so they actually sailed over 430 nm.

Right now they are anchoring in front of the Marina Funchal, waiting to get permission to enter the port and go ashore. The Police came to the boat already and checked the crew’s papers and later the coast guard came and did the same.

The crew is in good spirits and takes it as it comes and is happy that Madeira is open and not in a state of lock down

Leaving Tenerife

13. April 2021 von Ingo Kommentar verfassen

After having spent exactly three month at the Canary Islands, SY Faule Haut is leaving Tenerife. Skipper Ingo spent two month there with his wife and one week with his niece and two lovely kids.

Faule Haut has new crew on Board: Lucien, a French guy and three German „Wandergesellen“, Ben, Till & Paul. Lucien is sailing to Madeira, the other three sail until Gibraltar.

They startet from at the port of San Miguel and sailed and motored to Santa Cruz, where they are relaxing right now at the port being in limbo because there is no wind. The forecast is bad – too little wind, and blowing in the wrong direction. The crew can only hope the forecast is wrong, because if if comes as predicted, it would take them forever to reach Madeira.

Anyway, the crew is in good spirits and ready to take whatever comes.

Already the new crew showed their skills. They are not just good handymen but also know how to cook. Under the guidance of Paul, they prepared a traditionell meal from the town of Hamburg.

And now: waiting for the right wind.

And… there is room available for the cruise from Gibraltar to Vinaros (Valencia). And one place available from Madeira already. ETA Madeira is Saturday, 17th of April.

leaving Madeira on Monday 19th. ETA Gibraltar is 27th of April. Leaving Gibraltar the next day.

If you want to join, send a WhatsApp message or email. Be aware that that Skipper Ingo can only receive it when he is close to the shore and has network connection.

European Mainland

1. März 2021 von Ingo Kommentar verfassen

More important however is the possibility now to get weather information via the Internet. Faule Haut does not have a Satelliten phone on board. This makes sailing sometimes a lottery game because she can’t avoid any bad weather areas and has to take the weather as it comes. Often, this resulted in encountering heavy thunderstorms and high waves. But the crew has been lucky on this leg. They just had rain for a few hours during this 17 days cruise from Tenerife.

Probably only two more days and Faule Haut will reach La Linea/Gibraltar, where the current crew will get off the boat. ETA (Estimated Time of Arrival) Gibraltar is Friday, April 30, 2021.

Faule Haut sabotaged

23. Januar 2021 von Ingo Kommentar verfassen

After her circumnavigation which she completed in July 2020, Faule Haut made two cruises from her homeport Vinaròs to Mallorca, Menorca and one cruise to Ibiza. After that, on Dec. 22, 2020 she left Vinaros again and sailed to Tenerife, Canary Islands. On bord was Skipper Ingo with a guest. The guest (who was supposed to sail all the way to Tenerife) turned out to be a dumb, useless and wicked guy and Skipper Ingo had to kick him off the boat at Cartagena (mainland Spain). That guy felt pissed and took revenge and even sabotaged Faule Haut by stealing/dismounting a part of the main winch on board so the winch could no be used manually any more, only electrically. This caused a lot of trouble during the 15 day cruise from Cartagena to Tenerife, because the Skipper experienced four days of rain and heavy storms

in a row, leaving his batteries uncharged by the photo voltaic panels. Batteries were drained by using the electric winch for days.

The Skipper was gonna start the motor to charge the batteries but the starter failed. It was broken.

Being unable to start the motor, Skipper Ingo set up his generator in the cockpit on three consecutive nights in the rain to charge his batteries. Batterie power was/is essential for the autopilot to work and for the electronic navigation systems.

So Skipper Ingo continued sailing singlehand to the Canary Islands reaching Tenerife on January 11, 2021, exhausted but safe and sound. Well – not really safe yet – because he could not start the motor. Getting close to the coast with a sailing yacht without having motor power can be pretty dangerous, so the skipper decided to set up a “Pan Pan Call” – a call for help. That Pan Pan Call was picked up by the “Salvavida Maritimo”, the Spanish maritime rescue organization.

An hour later they came with their tug boat and pulled Faule Haut into the port of Santa Cruz.

Luckily – already the next day – a new starter was delivered from Las Palmas and was installed successfully by the skipper on the Volvo motor.

Spray painting the new starter/solenoid.

Two men crew flew in from Germany – Thorsten and Joel. These guys were so easy going, smart and a blessing for having them on the boat. We did some skipper training and had a wonderful time together.

The genoa got a tear again. Joel and Thorsten did a great job to stich it with a patch.

Unfortunately – the fock furler broke. So right now Faule Haut is waiting for spare parts again to get that fixed.

A few days later the crew flew back to Germany and Skipper Ingo’s wife arrived on the same plane.

Since then, they lived happily ever after.

They sailed south, looking for a good anchorage, which they found at Las Galletas and later at Los Cristianos at the southern coast of Tenerife.

Ibiza – here we are

30. November 2020 von Ingo 2 Kommentare

Skipper Ingo and crew have reached Ibiza. The cruise became a nightmare for the crew – all newbies into sailing.

Shortly after Faule Haut left her homeport Vinaros, she ran into heavy weather. Winds up to 38 kn and high waves made sailing very uncomfortable.

When the entire crew got seasick, Skipper Ingo wanted to give them some relief and suggested to make a stop at Islas Columbretes for the night. Everybody welcomed that and agreed. But it was the wrong decision as they all soon found out.

The swell inside the main (horseshoe shaped) island was immens. It took the Skipper 40 minutes to get the boat attached to one of the installed mooring balls.

Then the night was a PITA for everybody. Nobody was able to sleep a single minute on that rocking and rolling boat during the night. Two of the crew even chose to sleep in the salon, on the small seats, because the rocking and rolling was unbearable in their aft cabins. 30 to 35 knots of wind was blowing straight into the bay during the entire night. So right when the sun came up, they left the Columbretes. Luckily, shortly after, the wind calmed down to 15 knots and they had a calm cruise to Ibiza. The crew fell asleep and stayed in bed, having a hard time to recuperate during the next 24 hours leaving the Skipper on guard for the second day and night in a row. Nobody was able to do their share of the night watch.

Finally short before they reached Ibiza all felt well again and the skipper could sleep for two hours. Skipper Ingo had prepared bread during the night and in the morning the wind died down and they took all sails down and stopped for breakfast with fresh baked bread and rolls, 3 nm off the coast of Ibiza. After breakfast they waited a few hours for the wind to show up again, but in vain.

Jonas – the tough one. 18,5° water temperatur.

Jonas made the best of the break and went for a swim. He even had the power to dive down a few times in 18,5° water to scrap the barnacles from the prop. No wind showed up, so they decided to motor the last three miles to the island.

They were relieved to reach Ibiza and all crew had regained their strength and started to cook some vegetable stew.