{"id":7787,"date":"2025-11-13T08:42:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T06:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sailing-amira.de\/our-amira\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T07:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T05:23:08","slug":"our-amira","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sailing-amira.de\/en\/our-amira\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Amira"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Amira is the middle name of one of our daughters. She was named after a little girl in Cairo whom Renate met in 1995 during a scholarship in Egypt. She liked the name immediately. <\/p>

Amira is also the name of a ship we went on a diving safari with in West Papua \u2013 a special tour, our belated honeymoon.<\/p>

The name Amira is easy to understand in many languages and quick to spell out in the radio alphabet: Alpha \u2013 Mike \u2013 India \u2013 Romeo \u2013 Alpha. This is an unbeatable advantage when it comes to checking in over the radio. That’s why it was quickly clear to us that Amira is the ideal name for our sailboat, a Lagoon 450S. <\/p>

Our Amira is a French catamaran. We find a chic monohull \u2013 perhaps even with two masts \u2013 much more beautiful to look at. Our Amira cannot glide through the waves as elegantly as a monohull. But on the other hand, she doesn’t heel. While books are already falling off the shelves and unsecured glasses are sliding off the table on a monohull, everything stays where it is with us. We only wobble back and forth a little \u2013 which doesn’t mean that it can’t get uncomfortable on our Amira in unfavorable winds and waves. But basically, a catamaran is better suited for someone with Parkinson’s, whose muscles are becoming increasingly rigid and who struggles with stability. We even hope for the opposite effect: that Peter can maintain his sense of balance longer through permanent practice on a swaying ship than on land. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Type: Lagoon 450SYear of construction: 2019, Belleville-sur-VieTwo engines: Yanmar 4JH57 with 57 hp (41.9 KW) eachLength: 13.96 m \/ 45 ftLength overall: 14.66 mBeam: 7.81 mDraft: 1.30 mWeight: 15.5 tWater tank: 4 x 175 lFuel tank: 2 x 520 lGenerator: Fischer Panda 10kVA and solar cells from Solbian<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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We upgraded the boat with a generator, the Panda 10000i 10kVA from Fischer Panda. Because it only draws its diesel from the fuel tank on the starboard side, which leads to an imbalance in the boat in the long run, we connected the fuel tanks to each other. We can now manually pump diesel from the port side to the starboard side if needed. We also installed a Bavaria compressor (FT100) in Cura\u00e7ao for filling diving tanks. Via Starlink, we can also receive internet and download weather data on the open sea. For sailing, we have a mainsail (79 m\u00b2) and genoa (50 m\u00b2) as well as a Wingaker (168 m\u00b2) and a Code 0 (93 m\u00b2) available. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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More about Sailing Amira:<\/strong><\/p>

THE CREW<\/span><\/a><\/p>

PARKINSON’S & OUR STORY<\/span><\/a><\/p>

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