As sailors, we are one with the sea and the wind. 

The wind gives us wings to help us traverse the seas.

But if we wing IT, nature will be relentless.

It takes a conscious effort to make the right choices unless you grew up on-board or unless you are a natural.

But when we do make the right choices, life on a boat can be truly invigorating - makes our hearts come alive, makes us younger.

So what are some of those choices:

Of course, our choice of sails is very important. The more sail surface we have, in theory the more wind power we can use. Sailing catamarans is a little different from conventional boats. In a storm, it is important to lower and diminish sail as quickly as possible and there is little room for error.

Milo explains:

If you just think about your catamaran as a place to escape from the stress of society, the hustle- and bustle at the workplace, and the emptiness of living in the concrete jungle, I am with you all the way!

But do we really want to give up all electronics and the convenience, safety, and happiness they provide?

I don't really want to live like a hermit in a cave on the sea or a Robinson Crusoe carving out his own place starting from ground zero.

For safety's sake we have a whole bunch of nautical electronic equipment. This list is an overview of the basics and some more. For the sake of convenience, we have air-conditioning, induction-cooking equipment, desalination watermakers, but also electric winches, scuba-diving gear. On top of that, there are notebooks, app-rich smartphones, i-Phones, i-Pads and a gamut of other electronic devices like cameras, video-cameras, projector-screens, etc.

Yes, as the typically spoiled Westerner, I need my electricity. What about you?

Anyhow, I decided that we live in great and happy times because we can have it all...

We can now install a few highly efficient solar panels, wind turbines and regeneration engines and get away with our 

A secondary way how we can use wind is through wind turbines. We will look at and investigate a variety of wind turbine types to generate electric power.

There are various designs with both typical and atypical types adopted on boats