Vedran

I believe all of you reading this article already know who St. Nicholas is and what he represents to all sailors and seamen. Him and me are pretty close, I must say he

For most people it's green, yellow or red. For farmers it's Jonagold, Golden Delishes, Idared or Granny Smith. And for 16 years in a row sailors know it as a waypoint input in

It's been a while since our last story. Few are the reasons, and all of them pretty, pretty, pretty good. The Mini Transat craze has blown off a bit and it feels like

..bend? .. mess with me? .. break? It is the 1st of November - Halloween in Las Palmas. Hot as usual, but getting even hotter seeing we are getting ready to leave the marina and

It's been a while since I've entered the "relax" mode, 10 days to be exact. The first five of which I was sleeping, eating and drinking and the latter five I was cruising

It's 4 am, Saturday.. Light drizzle in La Rochelle, 36 hours to the start of the Mini Transat 2017 La Boulangere. I just came back from picking up Šime (Stipaničev) at the "40

Well, well.. You know the feeling when time goes by so fast and you feel you don't have any control? This was the feeling I had this time two years ago.. and again

With just three months left to the start of the Mini Transat, we got encouraging news - a new sponsor joined our team. It's the Specialty hospital [Medico](http://www.medico.hr/) -

Crowdfunding - ˈkraʊdfʌndɪŋ - is a financing method that involves funding a project with relatively modest contributions from a large group of individuals. In our case, the funds are raised to help us

Less than 140 days to the start of the Mini Transat. I'm stuck in a traffic jam on my way to Genova, on an Italian highway, the second time today.. I'll do my

Squid are cephalopods of the order Teuthida, they can be caught by pescafondo and different kind of fishing nets. In the GPI (Gran Premio d'Italia) we found out another way of doing it.

Where there is an [aperitif](http://www.adriatic-atlantic.com/season-2016-preparations/), there should be a digestif, too. The main course being the [Trophee MAP](http://www.adriatic-atlantic.com/trophee-marie-agnes-peron-2016-2/) and the [Mini Fastnet](http:

Doaurenez is a small village in Brittany, France. 20.000 souls, most of them sea oriented. What a beautiful sight to see - every day at least 30 boats out sailing in the

It's for Marie Agnes Peron, a sailor that went missing in the Bay of Biscay during the Mini Transat 1991., that this [regatta](http://map.winchesclub.org/) is a hommage to. A 220

After all the winter works, Eloa was shiny and ready for some serious sea trials. My friend Dado and his Mini Transat project companion "Sisa II" - a Pogo2, CRO 602 - came

After a season of fantastic sailing experiences, Eloa begged for some changes and improvements. As Christmas was just around the corner, we decided to reward ourselves with a major facelifting procedure.. All deck

Every month one regatta to be sailed, that was our plan. But in September, our plan failed as I got sick just before Viska Regatta, so no races in September. It's not easy

After the solo qualif experience, I had to return to the everyday life routine. It wasn't easy, as in the solo qualif one passes through an emotional catharsis and realizes that many things

The hardest part of a Mini Transat project is getting to the starting line in France. One of the big steps in getting there is the solo qualifier, a 1000 nm journey in

Our dreamgoal: The Mini Transat 2017. Still a long way to go.. But, in order to participate in the Mini Transat, we must complete our qualifying cycle. Amongst other things, it consists of

Eloa is refreshed. She is ready, but are we? That's what we wanted to find out, so Eloa took us sailing around Croatian islands to show us what she was capable of. We

Not being such an old lady, Eloa didn’t need big facelifting procedures, just minor aesthetics and functional tweaks. It took us 25 days to optimize and refresh both Eloa’s interior and

After a year’s negotiating and fund raising, Mini serie Tip Top 704 finally found a new homeport – Mali Losinj / island Losinj in Croatia. A few days before Christmas, in Ancona (Italy) we