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

Bali, Indonesia to Victoria, Seychelles  Total: ~ 4800 nm If you draw a straight line from Bali to the Seychelles and measure the distance – this will show you around 3800 Nautical miles. That’s the theory but unfortunately not feasible, at least not in the month of March. The s

Three months at anchor at the Northern Pacific Coast of Costa Rica on board Moonwave

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

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

[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

On board Moonwave we are on an “almost” constant quest of innovations and improvements. This not only manifests itself in the following areas – see related blog entries:  Hybrid Propulsion System – Moonwave – Torqeedo talking about our new system Titanium/ceramic rudder be

This year, as we were not on the way to the Caribbean – we went to The Bahamas instead – the timing worked out to fly to Amsterdam for the biggest Marine Tradeshow – METS. At least in the end it worked out for one of use but that’s a different story.  We had been to

Time is flying by and it’s now one year that we left France in May 2018. It’s time for reflexion and feedback regarding Moonwave’s Hybrid System. First of all – we love it. The system has proven itself reliable and mastered the first 14.000 nautical miles – half a turn aro