I bought a boat! A little update..

While I am writing this update, I am sitting at the back of my boat, on my cosy bean bag, watching the wake of my new little rocket. We are on a nice reaching course, only under J2 and full main since we have no Code 0 yet, in 20 knots of westerly breeze, blue sky, bright sunshine, halfway across the Biscay on our way from Muros in Spain to our winter refit home in Pwllheli in North Wales. What a beautiful first sail! I love it. I could watch her surfing down the waves forever..  And I catch myself all the time reminding myself that she’s mine now.

„She“ is a Class 40, hull #93 – more precisely an Akilaria RC2, so she’s a second generation Class 40. Just perfectly perfect for our plans in the next years!

Her name is Wilson. She crossed the Atlantic Ocean several times already, saw many famous skippers, did a lot of races and sadly ended up in Muros last year after her rudders had been eaten by some Orcas. Since then she’d been waiting for her new skipper (me!) in beautiful Galicia. So of course, Jade – my favourite Co-skipper and partner - and I went there to see her. She’s the perfect project. She needs a lot of love over the next months of refit and I can’t wait to start. She‘s going to teach me a lot of technical skills, since we are going to do most of the work ourselves and my main goal is to know her inside out before racing her around the world.

Yes, around the world!

The plan is to do the Globe 40 race with my Co-Skipper Jade, which starts end of August 2025 already! The Globe 40 is a doublehanded race around the world with stopovers, on Class 40s. Lots of work to be done in that short period of time until the start. A big part of it will also be finding sponsors and partners for this Globe 40 project, but we love being busy and focused since everything is possible.

After this, my ultimate goal with Wilson is to do the Global Solo Challenge in 2027, which is a solo and nonstop race around the world. That’s the plan!

Since my arrival with my Mini 650 Mojo in Guadeloupe in the Mini Transat 2023, it was all about finding the right boat for my next challenges. In those last 8 months I fell in love with some of them, and am very glad to call Wilson mine now. It was a big up and down, not knowing if I’ll manage to find sponsors and supporters, doubting all the plans inbetween, but never close to giving up. There’s only one way, and that is forward! So luckily, it happened that I met the awesome right people at the perfect time and here we are now – in the middle of the Biscay, watching the wake of my rocket… so curios and excited about everything that is to come!

Thanks to all the people helping me find the perfect name for my boat in the social media! I loved all of them and it was so much fun going through them all! I am very happy I found the perfect name, thanks to you!