Dutch heroes of the North Sea
We were enjoying a comfortable close reach out of the Elbe, passing Brunsbüttel, Cuxhaven and all the East Frisian Islands but in the night we got the wind right in the nose and started to…
We were enjoying a comfortable close reach out of the Elbe, passing Brunsbüttel, Cuxhaven and all the East Frisian Islands but in the night we got the wind right in the nose and started to…
We sailed to Hamburg while waiting for the new inverter to the generator and docked in the City Marina of Hamburg harbour, right opposite of the beautiful Elbphilharmonie with wavelengths in the architects drawings. Hamburg…
We were lucky enough to get in contact with the skilful Fisher Panda technician Hans de Bol in Glückstadt and he ordered a new PCB board for our generator. We are quite dependent on the…
“Besser auf einem neuen Weg etwas stolpern als in alten Pfaden auf der Stelle treten” “Better to stumble a little along new pathing than follow old without moving” This was the message in a Chinese…
Last year we visited the little German town Rendsburg in the Kiel Canal as we sailed home from London and we were happy to meet the friendly harbour master Silke again. Nillas German family; Ule,…
After a short but peaceful night, we left Klintholm and Denmark as early as the morning broke and sailed away at 3:30 AM. With headwinds of 10-16knots, we had to run the engine and went…
On Saturday we sailed four hours to Malmö together with Modesty and Skyline and we shared plans and weather forecasts for the coming long trip to the Kiel canal. Anders cousin Ia joined us for…
On July 10th, we sailed five hours to Helsingborg. We met SY Modesty, another boat from our “sailaway”-group from Gothenburg. All good things are three and in Helsingborg SY Skyline made the group complete. This…
Some hours of deep sleep together with calmer winds gave us a great sail from eight in the morning until 4 AM next morning. The sun was shining and we relaxed and did some sewing…