Saw the wind direction and it seemed a good option. Not been before. Now a second night here with Bft…
Dropped Ritchie off and then stayed for another night, catch up with some small jobs, shower, clean bilge, shopping and…
Cafe Zevenwouden, a riot of a night and invited back to a thoroughly nice chaps house for after pub drinks.
https://www.skutsjesilen.nl/wedstrijden/2026/sneek/ final match report. Now we lie in the village of Terherne for the night.
Match report day one at Lemmer https://www.skutsjesilen.nl/wedstrijden/2026/lemmer-1/ Match report day two at Lemmer https://www.skutsjesilen.nl/wedstrijden/2026/lemmer-2/
As mad as a balloon, I came through the town, more boats and drinking than you could imagine. I decided…
Not the best view, I think one needs to be a bit more pushy but as a newbie I am…
Some rain squalls in the forecast with gusts 10M a second (Bft 5-6). Possibly the canal is blocked at Stavoren…
Was rough and high winds.
Next day or so, off to the north part of Holland for the SKS.
A really easy fast sail up to this, one of if not the oldest city in the Netherlands. Left Hell…
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Hearing the reports of his unsavoury defamation of Starmer I find it repellent that he is using such boorish tactics…
The Dutch sailors call these Irons, after a smoothing iron, the wider classic boat sailing community anonymous white boats AWB.
A drifter! Expect a sea breeze after 3-4PM. A lot of stalls and people knocking about.
So, oil drained, anode off, bearing carrier removed and shaft pulled out. Old seals out and new oil and water…
Seems like a sensible idea. Think I get out for a sail, carry the snag as aviation parlance would have…
Bara Vi went into the water 23rd April and today I planned sailing with a friend Eimert. Checked oil level…
Joe Popolo, US ambassador to The Netherlands reminds me of Richard Nixon; the smile perhaps a little off?
Diesel done, three half days, water more or less cleaned. Thank goodness, it’s a hard job!
Ahem, a lack of buckets to process the whole trailer load; enough for the brewing of the juice. Tetris. Eeeeek,…
€5 for a box of ten mangoes in the Saturday market here in Hellevoetsluis was too good to turn down.…
That time of year when little onions suitable are in the markets. Grrrr, thought I had found malt vinegar, it’s…
Working on my former home in Brighton.
After some humming and hawing Ritchie decided that since you only live once it was time to give Pollux a…
Used to work fine but performance deteriorated over time. Followed fault finding ideas at KEOGHS.AU and the fridge gets good…
A most difficult problem to diagnose. The engine is freshwater cooled with an electrical circulating pump for the freshwater side…
Some minor electrical work to do. Couple of line fuses corroded over winter. New fuse block to go in with…
I’ve owned the house here for 39 years, the kitchen I fitted when I moved in is still, mostly there,…
That was an old one I didn’t feel fair to publish at the time on the little Bavaria so quite…