Your Sail Blue Planet team wishes you a very happy, healthy and brilliant 2012, filled with laughter, good friends, great family moments and lots of unforgettable sailing trips!

Boogie and Marlies

After an Arctic Summer up North and a Racy Autumn in the Mediterranean, your Sail Blue Planet team is heading over for a Sunny Winter in the Caribbean!

Boogie and Marlies will be running the lovely 'Lady Ann', this winter in the Caribbean. They will join the yacht in Antigua after her Transatlantic voyage and invite you to join them for some relaxing cruising in the blue waters of the Windward or Leeward Islands, or some exciting racing in the trade winds under the sun.

'Lady Ann' is a beautiful, elegant yet fast 'modern classic' 65ft sailing yacht designed by the famous yacht designer Gerard Dijkstra & Partners,

19 August, Ittoqqortoormiit (more easily referred to as ITQ, it will prevent you tying your tongue in knots when you try to pronounce it)

It is cold, bitterly cold and still quite dark as we are coming up for our 3-6am watch. Too dark to see. And we need to see as there is ice between us and Ittoqqortoormiit as far as the eye reaches.
There is nothing to it, but to motor back and forth along the coast until we have enough light to weave our way through the ice. At least the fog has lifted a good deal and we have an magnificent view of the mountains on the coast. Steep cliffs rising some 1000m out of the ocean, with high peaks behind it and glaciers making their way to the sea.

Monday 22 August, Bjorne Oer to Harefjord

We're off the next morning under bright blue skies and an amazing sun, making the stunning scenery of mountains, sea and ice even more breathtaking. There are blues everywhere, in the sky, the sea, the ice and even in my music.Again the ice is just astonishingly beautiful as are the mountains and we come across several glaciers that have been pushing their snow and ice into the sea, accounting for some of the floats that we encounter. Others, like the mold of the rockface yesterday, come straight off the mountains while there is also ice that has just broken up.
It is unimaginable that all this around us was solidly frozen only 3 or 4 months ago and will be again by the end of the year...it is just so much water and such a large area! I am very tempted to come back here in winter, or rather, at the end of the winter in April or May when the sun is coming back and there is actually light during the day, to see for myself. See what this all looks like when it is frozen and I am on a dog sledge! I'll have to get yet some more artic clothing though before even thinking about a trip like that...