New 2026: Remote-Work Sailing Trips
Work productively. Sail minimally. Live fully. Imagine waking up, diving straight into crystal-clear water for a morning swim, then enjoying coffee and breakfast on deck before opening your laptop for a focused 3–4 hour work session in the salon. At midday, you relax in the sun with the crew, maybe grab a snack, then finish…
Discover Boatwork and Chill: Affordable DIY Experiences
What is boatwork-and-chill? Learn some boatwork and also chill on the boat, get some boatlife and learning experiences on the cheap – in nice touristy areas of Salamina, Kalamata or Korfu.
2026 Trip Plan is online
The boat is out of the water, the 2025 season is over: Time to make new sailing plans! And I did. Next year I have a nice mix of trips for you guys again. From chill-trips with not-much-sailing to adventure trips with a bit more sailing, from classics like the Ionian Sea and the Saronic…
Watch my interview on sailing around the world
When I got the Trans-Ocean circumnaviation prize at the beginning of November, I was interviewed for 5 minutes on stage in Cuxhaven on my sail around the world. It was in German, but I have subtitled it in English for those who are interested and not German-speaking 🙂
Pressemitteilung Trans-Ocean-Weltumsegler-Preis
Moritz Wichmann hat den Trans-Ocean-Weltumseglerpreis erhalten für seine zweijährige Weltumseglung an Bord der Segelyacht Free Spirit mit der von August 2022 bis Anfang November 2024 von Griechenland aus auf der Barfussroute um die Welt gesegelt ist.
Boote-Yachten.de writing about my sail around the world
„…An Bord der Free Spirit herrschte häufig WG-Atmosphäre mit wechselnden Crews von zwei bis acht Personen. Zu den Höhepunkten der Reise gehörten die Kapverden, abgelegene Karibik-Routen, Französisch-Polynesien, die Vogelinseln im Korallenmeer und die Insel Socotra.
Talks with Trans-Ocean
On Monday, October 27 2025 I held a talk about my sail around the world from August 2022 to October 2024 to the Berlin chapter of German Offshore Sailing association Trans-Ocean – of which I am a member. About 80 people came to the prestigious Potsdamer Yacht Club in Berlin-Wannsee to listen to my talk.…
Newsletter 11 out: A new skipper
In my 11th newsletter, I present you Elisa, Magical Ocean Sailing`s new skipper for summer 2025: How she got into sailing, her recent adventures and why she fits well into our style of sailing. Read into the newsletter here. Even better, subscribe here to get the next one.
New poster available: What a ship is – Freedom!
You need a small gift for somebody? Or you wanna have a stylish reminder of time spent on Free Spirit and what sailing is about? Or you want to support me a tiny bit with winter works on Free Spirit? Then head over to the Magical Ocean Sailing shop that my crew member Timo helped…
Newsletter 10 out: Hustle and change
It has been a while since I got to write something – in my 10th newsletter a write about how and the non-stop hustle and how the boat and me will get some chill-time and some changes that are coming. Read into it here.
Summer 2025 Trip Plan online
Free Spirit will stay in Greece next summer, after a breathless sail around the world it is time to slow down. I have put together a good mix of trips in the 2025 summer trip plan – for those who prefer chill-sailing, some with longer legs and some more adventurous sails too. And a sailing…
Summer & Fall 2024 Sailing Plan updated
Aloha folks! I have updated the summer sailing plan with a few details like the harbor in Albania that we will go to at the end of the Albania trip and that we will start from for the Montenegro trip: Durres. Several people have asked. Most importantly: I have updated and slightly changed the fall…
Newsletter 9 out: A costly engine refit and sailing differently
In my nineth newsletter I describe how sailing in South East Asia is very different to the Pacific, how my Thailand refit went and what my plans for summer are. Read into it here. Subscribe here to get the next newsletters and read into past ones
Why you should sail with Free Spirit and not some standard-charter-yacht
Apart from the fact that Free Spirit has just proved its seaworthyness by sailing more than half-way around the world the last 16 months, completing some 16.000 miles, and apart from the fact that it has a sympatic skipper and owner unlike those anonymous charter companies whose base managers are often overwhelmed servicing too many…
Newsletter No. 8 out: Upgrades!
In my eight newsletter I am talking a bit on works „along the way“ and upgrades that I got in the Pacific, like doing a lot of hand-sewing but also Starlink, and other stuff. Read into it here – and subscribe to my newsletter to get the next one here.
How to be a good crew member
The following is based on the experience of having sailed with about 400 crew members in my part-time professional skipper career and with about 150 men and women who joined me. A lot of this is about typical situations that develop again and again, because people are only humans and simply dont know, are unaware…
Newsletter No. 7 out: Wonders of the Pacific
My seventh newsletter is out where I am recounting some highlights from the last 9000 nautical miles sailing across the Pacific, the real deal. Read into it here. Subscribe here to get the next newsletters every 4-8 weeks.
Newsletter No. 6 out: Panama and a new model
My sixth newsletter is out. I write about the refit in Panama and how it turned out to be really expensive, why a delay because of rigging problems created a crisis with one crew and what the event showed to me – and how I will respont my changing my plans slightly and starting a new…