Lithium (Lifepo4) batteries on board?
We are all thinking about it. Should we switch on board your boat from standard batteries Lead,AGM or Gel to
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Adventures of a globetrotter
Part of Aerotaxi group
Asmara news
News flashes from various trips
Winter ’23-’24 (EN)
In terms of weather, it was a quiet winter, a bit of ice, but never enough for an eleven-city trip
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Simba and Swedish mice
Simba ate her first Swedish mouse. Day after, she also managed to drop a live mouse on board. It’s becoming
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Just before 1 April, the first misery starts, starter battery seems dead, luckily for me the problem is limited to
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Mice and Simba
Simba of course comes in with mice regularly that is obvious. Luckily for me, she always drops them on the
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Crew wanted July/Aug ’23
My embarkee who had embarked on the Westeinder dropped out and disembarked again in Sneek, she thought it was too
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Summer trip 2023 through Sweden
In 2015, I took a beautiful trip to St.Petersburg. These and many other trips I depicted in my first book,
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Removal Velvet Drive.
This page shows the manual for removing the Velvet Drive (Velvet Drive is Model AS15.72C – 2.91:1) from my engine
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Journey through Sweden (update)
The spontaneous idea for this trip, which originated in February 2022 across Sweden, was too short and not feasible. Despite
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Life on board
Houseboat, Household boat or sailing ship A houseboat is fixed to the shore and cannot sail independently, is usually rectangular
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Asmara website multilingual
I have started to add another language to the website. During my travels I often meet Germans or other Nationalities,
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Update plan’s summer 2019
An update of plan’s for the summer of 2019.
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2018 Bad year for the Asmara
It will not have escaped most of you, the Asmara has been haunted by bad luck this year.
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Lectures on Baltic travel
Skipper Peter Mantel gives lectures on location
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Waiting for less wind
Although the weather is fine with lots of sunshine and temperatures of around 20, the wind is too strong and
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Drinking water tank leaking
Once you have solved one problem, the next one will appear to be working.
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