We are having a wonderful 11 day vacation with our daughters on the west coast of Sweden. How lucky we are with the weather 😃. Lots of sunshine, regular fine winds for sailing short stretches, almost no rain and no...
At Adams Boat Care - part 2
The rebuilding of the entrance will eventually take 3.5 weeks. During that time we are moored at the yard and just working ourselves. In the evenings we occasionally go out for dinner in Henän or Ellös, or we...
Refit Sweden - new companionway 😎
We have a beautiful new entrance with a retractable door instead of the two separate hatches that you have to slide in and out each time. That took a lot of perseverance from Toine 😎!!! Hallberg Rassy was very...
At Adams Boat Care - part 1
We have been docked at Adams Boat Care for 2 weeks now for the remodeling of the entrance. That is still quite a job. Carl had previously mentioned about 6 days, we were already taking into account 2 weeks and it...
New navigation screen 😊
On the way to Sweden we decide to buy a new navigation screen. The current screen (E120) fails at least once a day and seems to be getting slower ☺️. Now we often watch TV on the iPad outside and...
Back in Sweden 😊🇸🇪
We are back in Sweden for the last part of the refit at Adams Boat Care. For a new entrance we replaced the two separate hatches by one retractable hatch. The materials for this were delivered a few weeks ago...
Roller sprit with bowsprit
We are very happy with our new furling gennaker and bowsprit. With this sail we can sail in light and prevailing winds. The bowsprit ensures a good mounting of the gennaker as far forward as possible on the...
Spring in Bruinisse
The rest of the spring in Bruinisse flies by. Toine goes to the office regularly but I still work completely from 'home'. Fortunately that goes fine on the boat ☺️. Although it will probably be good for me to have a break after the...
Big spring cleaning
From Wednesday morning until Friday afternoon we will be on the shore at Van Ast in Brouwershaven for the big spring cleaning. We can just live on the boat, with a ladder accessible 😃. Of course, we've been to the shore many times before,...
Change from Rocna to Ultra anchor
We have replaced our galvanized Rocna anchor of 40 kg and 65 m chain with an Ultra stainless steel anchor of 35 kg and 100 m chain. Why? The Rocna has never let us down over the last 7 years...
Cold month of April in Bruinisse
How do you like living on the boat in Bruinisse? The whole month of April is pretty cold. Out of the wind and in the sun it is lovely. But the wind, which comes from the north, often makes it unsafe and...
Moving from Dordt to Bru
We have been living on the boat for 9 weeks now and we like it very much. It feels very natural, like it has been a long time since we lived in a house ☺️. The weeks in Dordrecht fly by. With working at home, off...
The house is really sold 😃🍾🥂
Today the house is really sold. In the morning we drive from Dordrecht to Tilburg, first to the notary in Rijen to sign a power of attorney. Due to corona we are not allowed to be at the signing this afternoon. Hence the...
The first week in winter temperatures ☃️❄️
The first week we live on the boat we experience severe winter conditions with a big layer of snow and temperatures between -3 C during the day and -10 C at night. We are happy with it, it's...
From 450m2 back to 67m2
This weekend we go from 450m2 in our house down to 67m2 (45m2 on the boat and 12m2 in storage). It's a good thing we've already sold, given away or taken to the dump quite a bit of stuff. Is it going to...