We are spending the whole summer on the Grevelingen. After all, we are going to stop working November 1 this year so we don't have a summer vacation planned. Instead, we are making it a "working vacation. The first part of the...
New sails
The last major maintenance before our sailing trip is new sails. We are forced to do this because our old EPEX laminate sails have completely delaminated after 8 years, leaving holes in them. Completely unusable. Toine goes on...
New rigging
The boat is now 17 years old and that is how long the rigging has been on it. Usually 15-20 years is given for the lifetime of the stay. For us a reason to switch to new rigging now so that also...
Coppercoat
We did hesitate for a while ... are we going for coppercoat or not? For those who don't know what that is ... coppercoat is an underwater paint that consists of an epoxy resin supplemented with a good amount of copper powder. Hence ...
New composite valves
When the underwater hull is completely bare, Toine finds out that many of the valves in the hull penetration are no longer good. These were put in new in 2017. Does that happen so fast? We apparently suffered from galvanic current....
Spring 2024 - including trip to Chatham and London
Spring, like last winter and fall, is also relatively cold and very wet. Never before has so much rain fallen in the Netherlands in spring 🌧️. That's because last year was an El Niño year which made...
Starlink antenna installed
For when we leave next year, having a Starlink antenna on board will come in very handy. For those who do not know what Starlink is ... "it is satellite constellation under construction by the U.S. space company SpaceX (Elon Musk) for providing...
Winter 2024 as landlubbers with three sailing weekends
It is a cold and especially wet winter. It has not rained so much and heavily in years. Therefore, we don't mind living in our fine apartment and not on the boat. Partly because our daughters are there...
Temporary 'landlubbers' again 😉 🏠
We are temporarily 'landlubbers' again now that we have been living in our fine newly completed apartment since December 8 😊. We call this the 'family rescue zone'; a place where we can always be 'home' as a family during our future traveling existence....
Indian summer and autumn in Bruinisse with lots of time for our family 😊
How time flies. It is almost November already and winter time has just started. The boat is back in "winter mode"; the cockpit tent is up (enlarging the living space), the plexiglass windows are fixed in the top windows, the...
Solar panel on the davits
On top of the davits is a great place for a solar panel with a standard size of 2×1 meters. We got tips from other boats on how to attach the panel. Toine finally chooses a way he made up himself. The mounting pieces are made according to...
With unstable summer weather to southern Brittany 🌦️💨
It has been 5 years since we have been to Southern Brittany, so we think it would be fun to go there again. Partly because friends boats also go that way. The challenge is to go in a summer vacation....
Simpson Davits and new Highfield dinghy
The improvements of 2023 are the Simpson davits and a new Highfield dinghy. We already bought the davits last year from HR parts, type S10 electric with remote control. The whole winter they are at Nova in the hall. In...
A rollercoaster of events in a first cold/wet and later hot spring
If I were to describe spring 2023 in Bruinisse in one sentence it would be "a first cold/wet and later hot spring with a rollercoaster of events"😊☺️. With the highlight being hiking the West Highland Way in Scotland and the...
Fine winter is over 😃😎, or is it? 🥲
Fine, winter is over again 😃😎. Meteorologically yes, but unfortunately the weather is not showing that picture for the next week 🥲. We are looking forward to the warmer days of spring after this mostly humid winter. Not...