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Easy sailing, four days to Fiji. It's one of those great wheater windows you sometimes have. Just a short impression.

We had sailed 6 days and did not want to wait for the right moment to enter the pass as we thought it is a big pass and we would have a look and then decide. We did it anyway.

Just a smal video of a nice swim with a dolphin family that are living in this bay. Not spectaculair jumping around as we have seen in other pictures but it was nice to try to swim with them. A calm day, nice water and a great bay.

The final presentation before the village in the Island Ua Pou. This is the dance group that Ua Pou will send to the Marquesan Art Festival 2022 in Fatu Hiva It is the almost complete performance 45 minutes, I omitted only some parts (8 minutes) We were so honored to be there. It was a complete hypnotizing experience. The drums, men and women were one sea of sound movement and power. Besides the performance, we heard in the end, this is also the youth that is doing a last performance for their elders. At least for some of them, they end school, go study in Tahiti only to come back years later. You could see the proud parents looking at their sons and daughters and the remembrance that they were dancing there one too. This was purely for their own village. I think we and some others where maybe less then 20 tourists. For people who want more, somebody on a Marquesan YouTube channel posted the final performance of Ua Pou during the art festival In Fatu Hiva 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2u62FMoa6o

This Matatiki festival was organized by Marquesas people for Marquesas people. There was nothing organized to show tourist. Very pure and authentic, just a celebration of their traditional art and culture Haka performed by a group of tattoo professionals from all over the Marquesas. The did 3 days of tattooing and performed this as a group on Saturday night. No professional dancers but look at the serious energy, incredible homage to their traditions. More information about this hakas and culture to find on our website: www.sailingsnow.com

This is the group, Mana Haka. A professional dance group. This is a very specific cultural dance. Great performance. You just have to be there to feel it. Fantastic experience, the drums are hypnotizing, so is the women's voices and haka itself. Hard to do it justice with no professional recording equipment, we did the best we could. This is a long video as I found that more respectful. The "Birds Dance" is perfectly seen on the channel of Jacarandayourney; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXr6pRkiMAo&t=266s This video is part of a blog article on our website about this festifal and culture. More info on the Matatiki festifal on our website: www.sailingsnow.net

Our transit of the Panama Canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific in March 2022.

Our last part of the Atlantic Ocean sailing. Up to Panama from Aruba in 5 days. The video is all sailing and being on the ocean. Sailing slow, sailing fast and just sailing great. I left the sound as it is. There is wind in the microphone, that said, you also hear wind in your ears if you sail. At least you can hear the water and waves as they are. Yes there are dolphins too, lots of them. It was a great sailing trip. Made in November 2021 on Snow our Sparkman and Stephens Swan 431 from 1976. Great cruising ship for a couple but we are bias.

Video is used to be in website www.sailingsnow.net

Video is used to be in website www.sailingsnow.net

Remembering how it was to sail before worrying about CV19, we could go everywhere. Sailing in fine weather and excellent conditions, enjoying the Caribbean sea. We could go anywhere. This was a perfect sailing trip. Somedays you have it all. Two weeks later in Bonaire we were locked down because of the corona virus. A couple of weeks later the Panama canal closed and conditionally reopened two months thereafter. We decided it was the ending of our plans in 2020. Doomed to beautiful Bonaire and decided to wait out hurricane season here to see how the world looks like at the end of 2020. New plans have to be made.....

Our first ocean crossing, 25 days from Canary Islands to St. Lucia. Sailing her with just the two of us.

A great sail with this Sparkman and Stephens Swan 431, she was is her element, we could not get her to sail slow. We did many hours 8 to 9 knots. Fantastic sailing. Yes I kept the wind sound there to also hear the sea.

Just departed from the Netherlands to Portugal. Our first sail of a 3 months cruise to Portugal to finish the cruising refit of Snow. Filmed from sailing yacht Easy, another Swan (44 mk2), we met them again in Lagos, Portugal. (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWor4hXCq5VS4DcAlB5Fkpg)

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Short impression of our first long trip, three days sailing. Wind was 15 to 23 knots (5 to 6 bf) waves about 2 meters. It was a great sail.

Finally sailing again as the sun starts shining, first tryout of our gennaker with friends

Winter storm January, Netherlands, beaufort (bf)10, gusts to 78 knots force 12 (bf). First screen is the wind force and direction. Second screen shows the gusts and average windspeed (red number) of the last hour 51 knots bf10. It was even a bit worse than this video, I think this was bf10-11 with gusts to bf11-12. This was in the harbour, we can only imagine how it was outside...

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