Follow Dominik Lenk and his campaign for the 2013 edition of the Transat 6.50, a single-handed transatlantic sailing race in extremely small 21-foot high-performance sailing yachts.

More about the race, the skipper and the boat…

UK Mini Fastnet 2011

Posted 243 days ago · 1 Comment

Once again a bit of everything, not only in terms of weather, but also in terms of things that can break and ways to fix them: GPS, winch, bowsprit—in that order.

UK Mini Fastnet Preparations

Posted 258 days ago · 0 Comments

The UK Mini Fastnet will start at 15:30 today from Plymouth. I will be sailing the 600 nautical mile to Ireland and back on Prim Avel with Andy Olliver.

There is a live tracker and a newsfeed for the race.

MOD70 Race for Water

MOD70 Christening

Posted 304 days ago · 0 Comments

Lorient, the silicon-valley of sailing. I arrived here a little more than a week ago and have been knocking on lots of doors since, to get more experience with the technical side of maintaining boats. One of the highlights so far has been the christening of a new type of trimaran, the MOD70, on Friday…

IJsselmeer Training

Posted 368 days ago · 0 Comments

Fresh pictures from the first training this year after the ice melted…

Mini Fastnet 2010

Posted 583 days ago · 0 Comments

A little bit of everything for the 600 mile Mini Fastnet on Mini 435: Gale force winds on the nose in the English Channel and light wind parkups in the Bay of Biscay.

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