We want to use this opportunity to say “Goodbye & Au Revoir” to Moonwave and all of you. 10 years ago Moonwave was getting built and I [Sophie] was there to see that, her childhood was not the easiest. Sebastien joined a year later and then all team worked together to straighten h
In Jan 2022 Moonwave and her crew Sébastien & Sophie have officially finished their first circumnavigation with the return to Sint Maarten in the Caribbeans [22 months in total]. The adventure started in March 2020 with a zero-fuel-used sail of 1200 nm from Martinique to Panama. D
Indian Ocean & South. Atlantic Ocean Oct to Dec 2021 To sail around the world without passing through the man-made Suez Canal, there is only one way… around the famous and mythical Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. But first we needed to get south from Mayotte to South Africa thr
France, April 2018 – Seychelles, May 2021 Total: about 40.000 nm About two years back, I published an article with the title “One year feedback of the New Hybrid System” back in May 2019. Now it’s time to give a “Three year/40.000 nm feedback” of the Hybrid System on boa
This article talks about our time of lockdown on board Moonwave due to the Covid19 crises in first half of 2020 and what we learned about life on board… Like many other cruisers and almost everyone world wide our original plans from March to July 2020 have been “boulversée
We are very proud that one of our articles “Delivery – we did it again… [March 2020]” – has been published in the “post card section” of the June/July 2020 edition of Multihulls World Magazine – page 27. We also wrote a French Version fo
Moonwave is featuring on the cover page of the April/May 2020 edition of the American Boat US magazine. Here is the link to their article about “Electric Dreams And Hybrid Solutions” – Boat US Magazine April/May 2020 – https://www.boatus.com/expert-advice/exper
The passage of the Panama Canal was definitively on our bucket list – It was the first time for Moonwave and her crew. Actually Moonwave had already done the canal once before when she got shipped from Hong Kong to Miami back in 2014. She was packed inside a big container ship w
[March 2020] We did it again – we did a great delivery without burning any fuel !!! Last year in May we had a nice trip from Saint Martin to Turks and Caicos [around 600nm] without burning any diesel. This time we doubled the distance. We had a great doublehanded downwind sail f
The indoor helm station is the centerpiece of navigation on board Moonwave. It features the steering wheel, two big Navigation screens and lots of control buttons. Additional screens and controls for sail trimming are placed on the upper section. In the right corner of the overhead se