We just left for our summer vacation to the Baltic Sea. The first week we can take it easy without the girls. That gives me time to look back at the past two months ...
Weekends on board during Corona lockdown
Despite the crazy time now during the Corona lockdown we are on board for many weekends. That is a wonderful change after a busy week at home. We feel very privileged that we can do this 😊. Especially because the Belgians...
On the boat in times of the corona virus
We have been hauled in the water on March 17th 😄. Because of the corona virus we both work at home from March 10th. So we decided to go in the water just a week earlier. Every day the situation changes, so...
Winter maintenance
This winter we spend most of our time polishing the white polyester. The superstructure and the cockpit have never been so shiny 😉. Van Ast polishes the rest of the boat for us and paints the underwater hull....
Planned rebuilding of beds
As we get closer to living on the boat this makes us think about the layout of our bed at the back and the bunk bed in Marinthe's room. We now have the model with two beds...
Winter berth in Dordrecht?
This weekend we visit some marinas to get an idea of a suitable place for a berth in the winter. We already know the Veerhaven in Rotterdam, definitely a beautiful place for a winter berth. We...
Our house is for sale
Our house is for sale! For 2 weeks now. The day the pictures and film were made feels like a special milestone. We are there all day. Toine compares it to the feeling of the wedding day...
Metamorphosis of the artificial grass
We won't sit still this weekend either. On Saturday the plasterer (top guy 👍) comes to clean the window frames in the storeroom and the door of the 'behind the TV' room. Toine cleans up the storeroom and I make the...
Metamorphosis of the room 'behind the TV'
Also the room 'behind the TV', as we call this room, is undergoing an enormous metamorphosis in a few weeks time. From a room impossible to walk because of all the stuff, to a reasonably empty room, to...
Metamorphosis of the garage
The garage is undergoing a major metamorphosis in just a few weeks time. From a place where a lot of rubbish has been collected, to a place where we collect stuff for recycling and dumping, to a completely empty place, to a nicely painted place and again ...
Ready for hibernation
The sailing season is over and the SeaQuest is ready for hibernation in the hall at Van Ast. We were pleasantly surprised by the good condition of the underwater hull and the propeller shaft ... almost no growth 👍👍.
10 times with the trailer to the dump
We borrow Pieter's car (with tow bar, our cars don't have one) and drive 10 times with a full trailer and full car to the dump and recycle. We start cleaning up the mess behind the...
Cleaning the storage room and attic upstairs
After picking up a first load through the circuit and bringing it to the dump ourselves, we will go upstairs this weekend to clean up the attic and storage. In the attic there is still a lot of...
Appointment with the Realtor
The first appointment with the real estate agent teaches us that we still have something to do before we can put the house up for sale. Because we have a lot of space we have collected a lot of junk over the years...
Moving to our boat
The plan to sell our house and live on the boat has been in our minds for a while. We think living on the boat is going to be great for us. Life is so easy there and...