How far can you go?

Electric motors run reliably as long as they have enough power supplied to them. The question of “how good are they?” is just the incorrectly asked question “how good are the batteries?”

We have crossed the Atlantic twice and visited many ports along the way. We have managed this on just eight 100ah batteries hooked up in series and parallel to give us 200ah at 48v. As a result, we have practically no range and as a result do not count on our electric motor to take us far. We have been using it just for docking and maybe for maneuvering around an anchorage, otherwise we rely solely on the sails to get us from port to port.
After 4.5 years, we have never actually done a proper range test to see how it works. Now is the time to see what this baby battery setup can do!

Sailing during COVID

Long after the pandemic has calmed down, Sailing is still affected by policies and policing in the name of COVID. See how it affected us while sailing around the open waters of the US Virgin Islands.

Maggots in your food!

What do you do when you are on an ocean crossing and discover that all of your eggs are crawling with maggots?

Downeast Thunder Creations Interview

We had a great chat with Paul Bennett from Downeast Thunder Creations about cruising on a sailboat full time!

Back to Wisdom

It has been a while since we have sailed on Wisdom! First we took a van trip for several months, then we hopped onto a friends boat to sail to the Balearic Islands for another month, but now we are finally home and doing what we do best!

The thing that makes this video extra special is this is the first video of wisdom with our new cameras. We used to film everything with a GoPro Hero 5. It worked but it has its limitations as a camera.
Now we are filming with a combination of GoPro Hero 8 and a Nikon D7500. The video quality is just miles ahead of our old GoPro which means that the videos are just stunningly beautiful. I really could have just watched the yard worker power wash the hull all day through the lens, it was just beautiful!

Enjoy this video and be prepared for from here on out, we are sailing all the time! We are leaving Europe and heading back across the Atlantic for a second time. Every leg we sail is well over 1000 nautical miles and the videos are purely about sailing once again!