An easy day, wind 3 Westerly, last night an excellent meaty cook up with Mark’s spice set. Tomorrow into Verse…
Weather forecast is atrocious with Bft 9 being mentioned, gusts 55 Kts for tomorrow. Hung about in port, better weather…
Departed Dordrecht 13:30 to take advantage of the current flowing down the Dordtsche Kil, 5-6 Bft under mainsail, Voitec helming…
Mark and Voitec aboard now. Was windy and nasty on departure Hellevoetsluis but once under way we could sail a…
Three hour baking hot passage, bit of current to help on the way up the Dordtsche Kil, runs up to…
Longer day than I thought, lock out at Verse Meer took 1:45 including waiting. Tired and hot, a cold beer.
All going swimmingly in Hanswert canal when phut phut engine stopped. Grrrrr. Stabilised under sail heading back south, identify problem,…
Delightful stay, originally planned 10-14 days here but heck, she delivers well. Hansweert lock and canal to Yerseke is my…
He writes this on his blog, leaving from Guinea-Bissau. Bubaque is a pleasant town on the island of the same…
Passage up here was fine, fairly serpentine, not that much heavy traffic during our time on the Scheldt. The docks…
As my feet touched the floor this morning a visit from immigration! No worries, all documents good. Arrived Antwerp Willemdok…
My original plan, to overnight at the lock of the Zuid Beveland Kanal got blown out after a phone call…
I had made contact with Freddie, a really nice chap in the Tram Hafen, a retired physio with a passion…
Well, the old one was second hand around ten years ago so it has had a pretty good innings. Took…
Not terribly dense but normally a predictor of changing weather. Warm occluded front in the post.
I put the Genoa on, the one that Walter of Bezemer sails condemned and after a bit of feeling the…
My nephew Adam and family came to visit for two nights. A real joy to see them, part of my…
It is certainly one of the biggest cliches in the literature of boating. What the Water Rat said to the…
With massive thanks to my back door neighbour the soil was changed out to his super best growing medium, the…
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Sorting out materials in the shed and looking ahead to tart up of ship. I only bought the turtle wax…
When you stare at a job for a long time and don’t do it! The starboard piece of teak is…
As ever too much thinking time and not enough “making mistakes to speed up the learning process”.. well, that’s life,…
Eeeeek! I’ve had this thing for over thirty years and last week it just stopped. A call to Jan at…
Another one of those jobs you put off again and again. Eventually made a start somewhat spurred on by positive…