This is us!
Welcome to Boatnotes! We are a patchwork family of 4 from Germany. More about us…
This website is about how we bought an old sailboat, refitted her, traversed the Mediterranean and circumnavigated the North Atlantic 2016-19.
Find out more about our adventures, boat life hacks and boat schooling!
Videos
Boat Life (Hacks)
Planning a route
Routes: Circles and Zigzags! Many of those who set out to go long term sailing have the plan to do the whole thing: They want to circumnavigate the globe. For a whole circumnavigation there is basically one route most cruisers will take: the coconut milk run or as you...
How to choose a boat for Bluewater Sailing
Well well well, many people have said many things about the perfect boat to cruise safely and comfortably and how to find it. Logically enough most came to the conclusion that it depends on people and plans. And budget, of course. We didn't really have any and had to...
How to prepare fresh caught fish! (Boat Cooking with Boatnotes #1)
We get asked how and what we cook left, center and right so I decided to start a cooking channel additionally to our adventure show. This is our first cooking video and I have to apologize the not ideal quality and lack of footage but to my defense: I was practically...
These 3 steps will save you from seasickness
Your dream is to go off sailing but you get seasick easily? This is annoying or intimidating you? Then this post is for you! I will explain how you can avoid to get seasick. Did you know that lots of people out there sailing do get seasick? Of course there are those...
Read this before renting a car online (through a portal)!
Since we are traveling by boat and there is four of us, renting a car to get to inland destinations makes sense. We like public transport a lot but the boys are at an age where they pay full price for tickets in most countries, hence it's just more economic to rent a...
4 things that can make traveling by boat a challenge
One of the many upsides of cruising in a sailboat is the freedom you have to go almost anywhere. Beautiful beaches, charming port towns and secluded bays – there you go. 1) 'Pleasure crafts' prohibited to berth on public quays Exept a place is overdeveloped and many...
Our Adventures (Blog Posts)
What about the kids? Infos about education and traveling with teens
Coding Resources for kids
How to help your kids learn coding and programming The search for good learning material just never ends! We are trying more and more to cater to our kids' interests besides working on the respective German curricula. That's really fun but often time consuming -...
How to take your kids out of school if you are German!
For Germans it can be difficult to get their children out of school to go traveling as the German school system demands kids to be present at school and homeschooling is illegal. That's why we get many questions, from Germans especially, about how we do it, what's...
5 tips for happy travel with teens
Traveling with teens - are we crazy?! We have always been traveling with kids. First as single parents, respectively, and after Ric and I had met, together as a family. Our experience ranges from traveling with babies and toddlers, kindergarten and preschool children...