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• New Tattoo

  Wherever you go in French Polynesia, almost everybody has tattoos. Their traditional symbols are deeply embedded in the Polynesian culture. I got a small manta tattooed two years ago and this year I could not resist and got him a bigger brother.

• Article on Improvisation in All-at-Sea magazine

  Living on a small boat on a small budget in remote places requires a great deal of improvisation skills. This article shows some of our improvised repairs. Those were usually just temporary fixes, although some became permanent ones… Birgit Hackl, Christian Feldbauer: Mad Max Makeshift Magic, All At Sea Caribbean, August 2017, p. 36–40. Free download from allatsea.net.

• New Article in All-at-Sea: Interview with female single hander

  A couple of months ago in the Gambier Islands we met the young, French single hander Charlotte Guillemot. As she is the first female single hander we have met in the Pacific, we interviewed her. Birgit Hackl: Girl Power: Interviewing Charlotte Guillemot, All At Sea Caribbean, June 2017, p. 40–42. Free download from allatsea.net.

• Anchoring around Coral

  Each year sailboats cruising in the Tuamotus get into trouble at anchor: they get trapped on lee shores after a shift in the wind direction and foul their anchor and/or chain in coral. Having just a short piece of free chain left while pitching madly is a dangerous situation and the results are stressful maneuvers to get the anchor back up, bent bow rollers and… Continue reading »

• Boatgarden Article in Ocean7 Magazine

  Birgit Hackl: Mein kleiner Garten an Bord, OCEAN7 03 (Mai/Juni) 2017, p. 28–31. download PDF (in German only)

• Location Report WordPress Plugin

  Several fellow cruisers asked me whether I can recommend a WordPress plugin for position reporting, that is, a plugin to show the latest position of your vessel on a map and normally also to show the route traveled so far. The truth is I cannot really recommend one. But what do you use on Pitufa.at? On Pitufa.at I use Geo Mashup, or rather a highly… Continue reading »

• Location Report WordPress Plugin

  Several fellow cruisers asked me whether I can recommend a WordPress plugin for position reporting, that is, a plugin to show the latest position of your vessel on a map and normally also to show the route traveled so far. The truth is I cannot really recommend one. But what do you use on Pitufa.at? On Pitufa.at I use Geo Mashup, or rather a highly… Continue reading »

• Article about the Austrian Fleet in the South Pacific

  Birgit Hackl, Christian Feldbauer: Die Österreicherflotte in der Südsee, OCEAN7 02 (März/April) 2017, p. 34–37. download PDF (in German only)

• Article about Using Satellite Imagery in All-at-Sea magazine

  We are using satellite imagery for reef navigation a lot, so we wrote a short article about that topic a while ago and it got published in the All-at-Sea magazine this February. Christian Feldbauer, Birgit Hackl: Reef Navigation Using Satellite Images, All At Sea Caribbean, February 2017, p. 36–38. Free download from allatsea.net.

• New article in Ocean7 magazine

  Birgit Hackl, Christian Feldbauer: Ausrüstung auf einer Fahrtenyacht — Was hunzt, was funzt?, OCEAN7 01 (Jan./Feb.) 2017, p. 44–49.

• Bug-fixing days on Pitufa.at

  The last days we were busy with internet tasks. After almost two months without internet acces (except for emails via SSB radio) the list of tasks is long. The i-net access here in Hao is slow but we certainly won’t complain as it is free!!! I used this opportunity to fix some bugs on our web page. There were some issues concerning mobile friendliness, now… Continue reading »

• Two new articles in All-at-Sea magazine

  Birgit Hackl, Christian Feldbauer: Communication at Sea, All At Sea Caribbean, December 2016, p. 42–44. Free download from allatsea.net. Birgit Hackl: Cruisers cook creatively, All At Sea Caribbean, November 2016, p. 52–54. Free download from allatsea.net.

• Article on Communication at Sea in new Ocean7 Magazine

  Birgit Hackl, Christian Feldbauer: Kommunikation auf Langfahrt, OCEAN7 06 (Nov./Dez.) 2016, p. 40–43.

• Sailing with Cats–a Summary after 5 years of Cruising

  When we set out from Europe 5 years ago we were slightly worried how our cat, Leeloo, would cope with long passages, whether we’d have problems when clearing into countries with her, if we’d be able to find cat food in remote places, etc. Despite the fact that Leeloo was already 11 years old when we moved to the boat she adapted quite quickly to… Continue reading »

• Pitufa’s Cruising Guides

  We enjoy travelling off the beaten track and quite often we cannot find info about destinations before we go there. Whenever we like a place and would like to recommend it for other cruisers, we put short cruising guides together. We treat the environment with respect and we hope that those who follow in our paths do the same. Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing… Continue reading »