From Porto we sail in two long stages of 30 and 24 hours to the Algarve (south coast of Portugal). These trips are characterized by little wind (where is the Portuguese North of 4-6 Bft. that is supposed to blow here?) and...
Hello everyone! I'm in Porto orphans playing basketball with Giel, he's from the barbarossa and he's also sailing with us. I learned a difficult trick from Giel, and now I can do it very well. You have to do the...
Dear everyone. How are you? I'm fine. We're in portugal now. I really enjoyed skyping with the class. But it was also exciting. It was really nice to see everyone again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...
We are located right in the centre of Porto on the quay wall which is not really intended for sailing boats. The Reeds and our other pilot advise against taking a sailboat to Porto. The river entrance can be dangerous,....
At the moment we are in Baiona; the last Spanish place we visit before we go to Portugal. Last week we made very quiet and short sailing trips on sheltered water, which will be different soon, because....
Ria de Arosa is a very beautiful Ria. We have had wonderful days here last week, together with the Valentine, the Barbarossa and the Nebulea. The Ria is a bit more to the south again than the previous Ria and that's just...
We went to school in the morning. I liked school. In the afternoon we went to play Valentine's Day. Then we went to watch a movie with us. In the evening we went on the...
Last night we played barbarosa and nebula on the beach with the valentine. That was fun. I also played football with big boys. See you next year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! xxx Marinthe
We've been in Portosin for over 5 days now and that's a long time for us to do so, so it's starting to tickle to move on and it looks like we'll be going to Portosin tomorrow afternoon....
We are in the marina of Portosin in Ria de Muros with good facilities such as a good internet connection and good washing machines. Today we are busy with all kinds of jobs. The girls do school first and Mira helps them....
Dear. Family and friends. How are you? I'm fine. We're in Portosin now. We had to sail 3 hours. It's not that long. Mommy's cooking now. She's making spasms. That's...
We have four wonderful days in La Coruna that for the first time feel like the real 'departing' life: messing around on our own boat, swimming in the harbour, hanging out with other departing boats and children going back and forth to each other...
We're in spain now. A few days ago we arrived in spain. It was 3 days sailing. Yesterday and the day before yesterday we swam. That was great fun. I jumped off a very high wall. Because if...
We arrived safe and sound in Spain after a trip of 57 hours. The last 28 hours we only sailed with in the beginning wind force 3 to 4 and the last few hours wind force 6 to 7 with gusts...
We are currently sailing on the Bay of Biscay and are already well over half. The weather is fine. The wind is coming from behind and was very weak at first so we motored. But now such a wind force...