Folie A2 sailing yacht: more than a wake.
Folie A2 sailing yacht is the archive behind Aurelia Blue: ocean passages, practical yacht systems, hard-earned lessons and the people who shaped the journey.
VOYAGES
SYSTEMS
PEOPLE
A different kind of archive
Oceans in chapters
From coastal hops to longer passages: routes, anchorages, weather decisions and what we learned by staying long enough to understand a place.
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Lessons that keep us sailing
Watermaker, antifouling, deck gear and repairs: real-world systems, failures and fixes from a yacht that is both transport and home.
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The people behind the passages
Sarah’s technical perspective, Christian’s professional kitchen life and the sailors, makers and friends who shaped the route.
Meet the people →Selected from the logbook
These are not generic destination pages. They are first-hand records of routes, systems, costs and decisions — including the stories Google readers already return to.
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Melilla to Nador: the other experience
Border crossing, taxi and bus questions, Nador and the practical reality behind one of the archive’s strongest search routes.
Hempel Globic 9000: our experience
What we expected, what we observed and why real use matters more than a product promise.
Two months of bay-hopping
Bays, swell, real marina prices and the freedom to change coast when the conditions changed.
Folie A2 is the yacht. Aurelia Blue is the current chapter.
Folie A2 remains the name of our Hanse 540e and the archive built from years of sailing, maintenance and life aboard. Aurelia Blue is where current guest voyages, dates and route formats now live. Keeping those roles separate lets the archive stay useful without rewriting old experience as current sales copy.
The archive keeps routes with dates and conditions, technical reports after real use, and stories about the people behind the miles. That includes practical subjects such as watermaker maintenance and Hempel Globic 9000, as well as voyage reports from Ibiza, Melilla, Nador and the Caribbean.
Read the transition story →Why the Folie A2 sailing yacht archive still matters
The value of Folie A2 is continuity. The same yacht, the same people and years of first-hand decisions connect older Mediterranean passages with later Caribbean sailing. That makes this archive useful beyond a single season: equipment reports can be revisited after months of use, routes can be compared with what actually happened, and technical choices remain documented instead of disappearing when a trip ends.
For readers researching a Hanse 540e, independent cruising or life aboard, the archive provides context that a sales page cannot. For guests interested in sailing with us today, it also explains where the experience behind Aurelia Blue comes from.
Looking for current guest voyages? Dates, routes and today’s sailing formats are published on Aurelia Blue. Folie A2 remains the yacht and the documented history behind them.