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Drying out on the Waddenzee
Escape from Makkum Makkum was becoming comfortable. After Reitdiep Jachthaven's busy city feel, the green grass, fresh flush of leaves on the trees and the song of a dozen [...]
The Standing Mast Route – Part 3
Early Sunday morning at the Prinsentuin. Headwind from Leeuwarden The next morning we left early from Leeuwarden, this time with a new crew. The [...]
The Standing Mast Route – Part 2
The beautiful Lauwersmeer The next morning, the wind was still blowing hard from the southwest, the direction (of course) of our travels for the day. Fortunately, the sun was [...]
The Standing Mast Route – Part 1
Farewell to Reitdiephaven After six cold, wet winter months in the Reitdiep Marina in Groningen, our contract was up and it was time to leave. Yuma in Reitdiep Marina. [...]
The last passage of the year
A SMALL WEATHER WINDOW Four days later the winds had dropped and the waves at the river mouth had settled enough to allow us to get out. At the [...]
Where to next?
DENMARK IT IS This hopping along the Norwegian coast had now got us to the country’s southern most point. Here we needed to make a call, is our next [...]
Maybe not the best call
(Note: this time no photos because of weather) WEATHER AND DECISION MAKING All the way down the Norwegian coast, literally from the Arctic to the very south, a distance [...]
Looking for weather windows to the Netherlands
COAST HOPPING SOUTH The journey south from Bergen now descended into a series of even shorter hops along the coast. Ideally, we had wanted to do the crossing south [...]