Looks a bit bumpy out, Thursday and Friday too but, perhaps Saturday down to Amsterdam, Sunday night passage stellendam. Bit…
Easy trip, felt a bit off on way so motored down to Den Ouvre, sailed down to enkhuizen. Shopping done,…
Around 35km, good little museum at the airport where they had parachuting going on. I could not but wonder if…
It brings it home how little one knows about such fascinating places. A major part of the Atlantic wall Texel…
Great sail over, 7-8 knots with the current, a couple of dolphins accompanied me for part of the trip. Arrived…
High point I guess has been food, a well loved fish handle visshandle, with superb fish at 15.70 a kilo.…
I booked in the below bar, when I arrived later to watch the football it seems the amplifier had broken…
Piss Poor Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance. Amazed to read that the “lift table’s” used my Boy Browning and Miles…
My favourite book shop, good stock of a wide variety. https://www.bookexchange.nl/
Ijmuiden 1530, bit of a delay for lock perhaps 30 minutes and then up to Amsterdam marina. Its packed. Grrrr.…
First drama; I had forgotten about the height restrictions at Goreesluis, the air draft is restricted depending upon the height…
Well, it looks positive, ran for half an hour and in the green. I am not throwing my hands up…
The primary side seemed quite clear, now, running fluid through secondary I get a load of frothing!
From one of uk’s top political journalists BBC News – Marr on catching Covid after being double vaccinatedhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-57640550
I saw yard today, it really looks like they can’t pull me out and get back me in the water…
https://www.rivm.nl/nieuws/deltavariant-rukt-op
It’s great that unlocking is happening but I do feel the threat posed by the Indian variant is a serious…
I guess Joe the boy Biden.
Ran various tests on the installed Lowrance vhf transceiver and, eventually, have taken the view that it is unserviceable with…
The announcement of USA “buying” 1/2 billion doses for the world’s most disadvantaged countries causes me a pause for thought.…
I have had food out since January / February and whilst not denying the jackdaws access to the fat balls…
The more I think about this topic the less clear becomes my focus. Focus initially ww2 demolitions which is of…
I have planned for some house guests early May and needed another bed; I had actually booked a shopping slot…
Happy I did not face the pain associated with working in a very confined space to define engine issues! Minor…
Seems this cooling issue has been my biet noir since the start. Hindsight is a wonderful thing and I should…
Lowered fluid level in header tank and ran motor for perhaps 30 minutes without any change in level. Leave it…
Jan was right, I tried with springs and wire but the jubilee aced it. I don’t know the correct location…
Next port of call the heat exchanger. I’ll pump out all I can get out from overflow tank, add some…
On inspection I noticed a small leakage of “blue” water from primary cooling system. Header tank now full to brim.…
This story of the development, production and distribution really does have a ring of Empire about it. Developed by devoted,…
Letter came through just now, 20th April. Second date is TBA so I will presume 12 weeks out but I…
I took off the fiddle block with cam cleat port rear stanchion, was difficult to uncleat, just ordered a auto…
Bft 8 in the gusts, a good day for the Red corpuscles! And now we have inner harbour almost to…
Bft 8 forecast at Hook of Holland and Zierikzee. Now we lie again in Steenberg, nicely sheltered and plan a…