🪢 Sunday Boat Tip [13/52] 🪢 These are the apps we use to make our anchor life a little bit smoother and get a little piece of mind at night! Do you use these too or do you have other favorites that should be added to the list, let us know in the comments! 🗺️ Navionics The app which we use for navigation. When it’s time to anchor, we use it to find a good spot and as we drop the anchor the one at the helm pushes the pin button creating a marker for the anchor location. ⚓️ Anchor Pro An app which works as an anchor alarm. We use the position from the Navionics marker and type it into the Anchor Pro app. There is an error margin as we get the position at the helm and the anchor is at the bow, but it works well enough! We then put in an allowed radius depending on the amount of chain and general surroundings. The app sounds an alarm if we go outside that radius. It’s not necessary to have the Pro version, but it allows for the app to send notifications to other units if the alarm goes off. 💬 Telegram It’s an app for chats and communication. For us, we use it to communicate with the Anchor Pro app. As long as we have internet onboard we can send a message in the Telegram app to the unit running the Anchor Pro and we get an instant reply with anchor distance and bearing. We also get instant notifications if there is an alarm. 📍Marine Traffic It’s an app for watching world wide AIS targets. As long as we leave the AIS running (and we are not in a too remote place) then we can watch our boat's position on here. If sh*t were to go really bad and Linnea would for some reason leave the anchorage without us, we could in theory track and find our boat this way. Don’t forget to save this post and share it with a friends who needs to see this 🫶🏼

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After living on a sailboat for 7 years and meeting hundreds of liveaboards along the way, we are confident to have the answer: Most people think sailors quit living aboard because of storms, long passages, or rough seas. That’s rarely the reason. What actually wears people down are the small things, every single day. The constant decision-making. The boat jobs that never really end. Plans changed by weather. The mental load of always adapting. Boatlife doesn’t fail because it’s too hard. It fails when it’s treated like an escape instead of a life that needs structure, recovery, and honesty. Living aboard is sustainable when you allow yourself to slow down, stay longer, dislike it sometimes, and rest when you need to. We wrote a long reflection about what really makes boatlife last, and why stepping back can be part of staying. The full blog post is on our website (link in bio) if you want an honest review of Boatlife. Stay Salty, Greta and Michael video kindy made by wineglasses from location: Zambezi in NYC

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🇫🇷 Changement d'ambiance à bord de D’Ieteren Group ! Le soleil d'hier a laissé place à un ciel gris et humide avec un vent plus fort. 🇬🇧 A change of atmosphere on board the D'Ieteren Group! Yesterday's sunshine has given way to grey, damp skies and stronger winds. ------------------------ ➡️ SUIVEZ-NOUS ! // FOLLOW US ! 🔗 Website : www.vendeeglobe.org 📸 Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/vendeeglobe/ 🐦 Twitter FR : https://twitter.com/VendeeGlobe | Twitter ENG : https://twitter.com/VendeeGlobeENG 🕺 TikTok : https://www.tiktok.com/@vendee_globe 💻 Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/VendeeGlobe 💼 LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/company/vendée-globe/

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