Pentecost with Canadian family
The Whitsun weekend we spend most of the time on the SeaQuest, on Saturday just the four of us, sailing the Grevelingen just past Ouddorp and casting anchor in a nice quiet spot where we are all alone with a view....
Ascension with family visit
Between the hockey tournament, tennis district championships and the last tennis competition day we will spend a day and a half at the SeaQuest with Pieter, Eline, Hugo and Lars... Super fun!
May holiday to Antwerp
In the May holidays we go between all the companies of especially the work of Toine to Antwerp. On Friday and Saturday the 2nd and 3rd of May via Wemeldinge to Antwerp. Both days we can sail very well with wind from the north....
First experiences
In the second, third and fourth weekend of April we do our first sailing, anchor and sailing experiences. Very nice and exciting again. Many things work the same as at the Brandaan, but some things are also...
Proud owner of the SeaQuest
Today we became the proud owners of the SeaQuest. A fantastic feeling and not yet to be believed. Until now the SeaQuest stood in the hall and outside on the side. Now for the first time in the water...
Brandaan is for sale
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 ....
Summer holidays 2011 part 1 - Via Scotland to western Norway
Well, what do you do if you want to go to west Norway and the first week of the holiday is against the wind if we sailed straight there ... well, then you just make a 'detour' via east Scotland...
WE'RE BACK HOME!!!!!!!!!!
What a fantastic reception in Bruinisse! When we enter the lock already halfway the Keeten, suddenly a very fast motorboat comes towards us ... is that customs or ...? No, surprise Ralph and Chris ....
On the way home ... and almost home !!!!!
Now for the first time it feels like we're really sailing home. Although theoretically that could have been a lot sooner. A friend of ours even said when we left over a year ago that from the beginning...