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Christian

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Name: Christian
Date registered: September 21, 2010

Latest posts

  1. Unterwasserfotos! — November 17, 2024
  2. Underwater pictures! — November 17, 2024
  3. Fotogalerie: Smurfy ist ein geborener Segler! — September 21, 2024
  4. Foto gallery: Smurfy’s a natural-born sailor! — September 21, 2024
  5. Smurfys erste Woche bei uns an Bord! — September 5, 2024

Most commented posts

  1. Change of plans — 10 comments
  2. Prevailing Ocean Winds — 6 comments
  3. Spenden für die Matuku Riffschutz-Zone! — 6 comments
  4. Anchor windlass overhaul — 5 comments
  5. Beitrag in den OÖNachrichten — 5 comments

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2019
12
Jan

Part 2 of our Anchoring Article in All-at-Sea January 19

by Christian

Birgit Hackl, Christian Feldbauer: Anchoring Games: Part Two–Techniques for Special Conditions, All At Sea Caribbean, January 2019, p. 36–40. Free download from allatsea.net.

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2019
06
Jan

New article in Ocean7

by Christian

Birgit Hackl, Christian Feldbauer: Die kleinen Dinge des Bootslebens, OCEAN7 1 (Jan./Feb.) 2019, p. 48–50

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2018
23
Dec

2018–A year full of adventures

by Christian

For Pitufa and her crew, 2018 was a very exciting year. We visited many new places, some of them were rather off the beaten track and some were real nature paradises. We made several new friends with locals and enjoyed Polynesian hospitality over and over. We started our tour in January 2018 from Rapa Iti in the Austral Islands and we are back in Rapa… Continue reading »

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2018
20
Dec

Photos of our stop in Tubuai

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2018
08
Dec

Article on Anchoring in All-at-Sea Magazine

by Christian

Birgit Hackl, Christian Feldbauer: Anchoring Games: Part One–Material and Basic Maneuvers, All At Sea Caribbean, December 2018, p. 30–34. Free download from allatsea.net.

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2018
21
Nov

Weather forecasts for cruising in and around French Polynesia

by Christian

I’ve just put a page on our blog that, on the one hand, summarizes all weather forecasts we’re using on Pitufa. It includes weather bulletins, surface-analysis charts, cyclone warnings, El-Niño discussions, and of course how all those can be requested via Saildocs. On the other hand, the page also embeds all those current forecasts, so it may be a convenient all-in-one weather site for cruisers… Continue reading »

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2018
06
Nov

Photos of Rurutu

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2018
31
Oct

Photos of Maria (Austral Islands)

by Christian

And here’s yet another one:

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2018
30
Oct

Cruising info on Rurutu

by Christian

We added a small cruising guide about Rurutu (Austral Islands) to our blog, click here to read it.

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2018
28
Oct

Article about Pitufa’s Atlantic crossing

by Christian

There is a new article in the current issue (Nov./Dec.) of Ocean7 as well as in the November issue of All at Sea Caribbean. It’s about our Atlantic crossing in 2011/12 and what we think about the ARC. Birgit Hackl, Christian Feldbauer: Why we chose not to join an organized rally, All At Sea Caribbean, November 2018, p. 36–38. Free download from allatsea.net. Birgit Hackl,… Continue reading »

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2018
25
Oct

Pics from Rarotonga

by Christian

And here’s the next delayed one:

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2018
23
Oct

Photos of Aitutaki

by Christian

At the moment our galleries are quite delayed because we are either at remote places without any Internet or busy exploring and taking new pictures Here a few snapshots from Aitutaki in the Southern Cook Islands.

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2018
18
Oct

Touring around the Austral Islands

by Christian

After an excursion through the Cook Islands, Pitufa is back in French Polynesia! We are currently in the ‘Archipel des Australes’ and hop from island to island, starting with Maria in the Northwest and finishing with Rapa Iti in the Southeast.

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2018
16
Oct

Time for a new generation?

by Christian

When we bought Pitufa 10 years ago, she was equipped with navigation instruments by Robertson/Simrad which were already 10 years old then. We are still using these instruments, despite their growing need for life-sustaining measures. About five years ago, the mast top unit of the wind instrument was the first component to quit. On the passage from Galapagos to French Polynesia we soon learned to… Continue reading »

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2018
25
Sep

Leaving Aitutaki

by Christian

It looks like we finally have a weather window to sail down to Rarotonga. We leave tomorrow morning–140 nm to go!

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