The Brandaan is for sale at Nova Yachting in Bruinisse. We chose it and got the chance to make the step to a bigger brother ... an HR48 which we named SeaQuest. The Brandaan is...
Summer holiday 2013 - Scilly Islands with very nice weather
The first year with the Brandaan (in 2006) we had a beautiful summer with warm weather and a lot of east wind. We then made a canal tour with Wight, Cherbourg and the Channel Islands of Alderney, Guernsey and Sark.... as our furthest western destination.
An unexpected May holiday to London
In the first week of the May holiday we unexpectedly make a very nice sailing trip to London. Unexpectedly because we only chose to go on a week's holiday at the last minute when it became clear that Marinthe had not recovered in time...
Summer holiday 2012 - Denmark via the German Bight
For a long time it is uncertain if we can really make a longer summer holiday trip with the Brandaan because of the situation of my (Mira's) mother. She just moved and is all that going well enough to be able to leave? Fortunately she is and...
Summer holiday 2011 part 4 - Stavanger and the way back home
In Stavanger we're falling in love ... exactly this weekend all the boats of the Tall Ships Races have visited Stavanger. The whole city harbour is full of those beautifully large sailing boats. We find our salvation...
Summer holiday 2011 part 3 - Ryfylkenfjorden and the 'pulpit
The second week in Norway starts with a Sunday with, as usual, a breakfast with an egg. And then a trip of about 15 miles to a beautiful deserted bay where we are all alone. On the way there...
Summer holiday 2011 part 2 - Mountains and the Hardangerfjord
Bergen is a beautiful city, after Olso the biggest, but according to connoisseurs more beautiful than Oslo. It lies in a bay surrounded by 'yes' ... mountains. We are moored at the quay (fortunately to another boat and not ....