The May holiday starts with a flying start. On Friday afternoon Toine comes home from a week in San Francisco. I (Mira) have already prepared everything at home so we can drive to Bruinisse right after. Just in time for the new edition of...
Easter 2009
It's a lovely sunny Easter weekend. Perfect as the first sailing weekend of the season. Grandma will join us all weekend. On Good Friday we take it easy. We sail the short stretch to Mosselbank and make the boat...
March 2009
The month of March flies by. With busy jobs, family life with sports activities and also the necessary hours in preparation for the trip. We make huge steps. All the technical stuff is placed on the Brandaan. The installer assembles...
February 2009
We are busy with the preparations for the trip. Every now and then we have to make some adjustments to the website, but it's starting to become quite complete anyway. More time is spent on ordering all kinds of technical things...
Summer holidays 2008 - Brittany
In the summer of 2008 we make a special trip to Brittany, special in the sense that for the first time we experience a storm on the North Sea with wind force 8-9. But more special because from the furthest point of...
Summer holiday 2007 - Tour Scandinavia
In the summer of 2007 we make a beautiful trip to Norway, Sweden and Denmark. This year the weather is good for us as well. Not as sunny and warm as last year, but very good sailing weather for this trip through...
Summer holiday 2006 - Canal tour
In the summer of 2006 we make a beautiful trip through the Channel. This is our first voyage with the Brandaan at sea. We have sailed many times at sea, but then in the Caribbean, and that sails anyway...
Purchase Brandaan
In the spring of 2004 we bought the Brandaan. We searched the internet for a couple of weeks and looked at a number of boats at shipyards. Our main requirement was that the boat had to be suitable for the four of us and for longer sailing trips....