Toine arrived in Canada and, after a hectic week, was able to hand over the SeaQuest to the PYD crew yesterday afternoon. The girls and I had a relaxed week with the Canadian family. We are happy...
Striker's off...
After an intensive period of preparation, step 1 of our adventure has been taken and that's it ... the flight of Mira and the girls to Toronto for a family visit to Teun and his kids. The last few weeks are ...
Back in Bru on the side...
We're one step further. The boat is on the shore at yachtservice Van Swaay for the final repair. And we're back home. Now we just have to wait and see how the repair goes and what the planning will be. We hope...
Massive collision...
We thought we could go for three weeks together with the Indian Summer and the No Doubt, but now we are already two days in Dunkirk on the side for a...
USA ... here we come !!!!!
In early May, during a nice dinner with music, the plan arose to go to America for a year with our family. Inspired by "the Sound of Silence" by Simon & Garfunkel that makes me think back to my own experience...
Hallberg Rassy tour 2017
On Saturday the 24th of May we will participate in the Hallberg Rassy tour 2017, with 38 other HR boats in different sizes. We will start at Nova with coffee and tea and then we will all get a white HR tour polo shirt....
May holiday 2017 - Tour Southern Netherlands
In the first week of the May holiday we make a tour around the Southern Netherlands. The weather is not there to go to the Wadden Sea. It will be a tour from Bruinisse to Cadzand, then to Scheveningen and then to the...
'Cheating' in Belize
From the 25th of February until the 4th of March we will spend a week in Belize on a catamaran 404 called Seaing Double. That feels a bit like cheating. We have deliberately chosen a cat to compare it with the SeaQuest...
New heating system
The most beautiful project of the winter 2016-2017 is a new heating system. One of the two Webasto heaters will break down in the autumn of 2016, which is a good reason to make all this radical adjustment now. We are looking for...
A new meter cupboard
Another project on which Toine will spend a lot of time in the winter of 2016/2017 is the renovation of the 'meter cupboard'. A boat is a rather complex whole with a 220v, 24v and 12v electricity system. The 220v system consists of the...
Steering position rearrangement with a new panel
In the summer of 2016 we will visit the Hallberg Rassy shipyard in Sweden, where we will find inspiration for various improvements, such as redesigning the steering position with a new steering position panel, because we want to...
New Lewmar blocks
Also copied from the new Rassy's is the replacement of all existing Lewmar blocks with ball bearing new blocks which makes shots and traps run much better and reduces the double loop for the big shot to a single loop,....
Text images at relevant places
Toine makes beautiful text plates for relevant places. For in the anchor box for the colours of the anchor chain markings. At the steering position with explanations about fast and slower gears. In the meter cupboard on the inside of the door for all relevant measurements of the...
Summer holidays 2016 - South Brittany
We visited the following ports: (Bruinisse) - Breskens - Camaret ⚓️ - Concarneau - Iles les Glenan ⚓️ - Île d'Houat ⚓️ - Courtesty - Île d'Arz ⚓️ - Île d'Houat ⚓️ - Belle Île - Île de Groix...
Summer holidays 2016 - South Brittany
This year our summer holiday is less about destinations where we have never been before ... we choose for nice weather in southern Brittany cozy together with the Indian Summer who left a week earlier ....