NEWS-Page
from October 2011: TANIWANI now wintering beneath the airport runway in Madeira.
Since we returned
from our 4+ years circumnavigation in fall of 2008, we had reverted to a four
months per year sailing pattern. In the mean time we also ,moved our land base from
Germany to Austria, and from a house that needs attention, to a virtually care free flat.
This year (2011) we
had a slow start of our sailing season, first moving Taniwani from the Marina in
Albufeira to the Sopromar shipyard at Lagos to get a few jobs done. While
waiting for spares we flew back to Germany to welcome our first grand child 'Bejamin'
and help out at the young family for a week.
Eventually we got
going again and sailed down to Porto Santo where we spent a pleasant week
anchored off the 3 mile long lovely beach. Second half of June we met up with
young son Felix and his friend Floortje. We left the archipelago via a short
visit at the Desertas, from where we moved on to the very interesting Selvagens,
about half way towards the Canaries. Crossed the Canaries from east to west and
left from Gomera for a 1000 mile leg to Flores, the westernmost of the Azores
Islands. Flores was new to us and turned out as one of the most beautiful
islands we had seen around the world. On arrival there we had the nice surprise
of finding Abracadabra with our friends Anne and Phil and their two kids in the
harbor - we had last seen them in South Africa a few years ago. Island
hopping the Azores we leisurely moved eastwards and eventually left the islands
from Santa Maria back to Madeira, where Taniwani was laid up beneath the huge
airport runway.
This year we just
maintained a blog of our progress and you can find short comments and many
pictures on all the places we visited at:
This year we only added 3000 miles to Taniwani's
log which now is at 54,000 miles and
is in the 11th year. Also this year some older equipment was replaced our list
of equipment and our rating has been updated accordingly. What we think of
all our equipment after such extensive testing can be found as always at:
If you want to send us
E-Mail while we are on board, please use the Radio Email below and include the text
"//WL2K" in the subject line:
This address will
send your mail to our Amateur Radio
mailbox, which we can get to via short wave radio. We check this mailbox daily
when we are living on board. But don't send big attachments that way, anything bigger than 20k
will not be transferred. Also, if you haven't received mail from us, or we
have not yet been added to the white-list, don't forget to add "WL2K"
(without the quotes) to the subject line otherwise your mail would be rejected by the
spam filter.
While on land or
near good internet connections we also check our regular mail at, this off
course can take big attachments:
