The period in Bruinisse after returning from our summer vacation until the end of October flies by. By now we are completely used to living on the boat and are no longer concerned with the difference with living in a house. It goes […]
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The return trip to the Netherlands takes a special turn halfway through. Never a dull moment as a long distance sailor ☺️. Now, sailing back from Sweden is always a challenge because of finding a good weather hole with prevailing winds from the […]
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We are having a wonderful 11 day vacation with our daughters on the west coast of Sweden. How lucky we are with the weather 😃. Lots of sunshine, regular fine winds for sailing short stretches, almost no rain and no […]
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The rebuilding of the entrance will eventually take 3.5 weeks. During that time we are moored at the yard and just working ourselves. In the evenings we occasionally go out for dinner in Henän or Ellös, or we […]
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We have a beautiful new entrance with a retractable door instead of the two separate hatches that you have to slide in and out each time. That took a lot of perseverance from Toine 😎!!! Hallberg Rassy was very […]
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We have been docked at Adams Boat Care for 2 weeks now for the remodeling of the entrance. That is still quite a job. Carl had previously mentioned about 6 days, we were already taking into account 2 weeks and it […]
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On the way to Sweden we decide to buy a new navigation screen. The current screen (E120) fails at least once a day and seems to be getting slower ☺️. Now we often watch TV on the iPad outside and […]
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We are back in Sweden for the last part of the refit at Adams Boat Care. For a new entrance we are replacing the two separate hatches by one retractable hatch. The materials for this were delivered a few weeks ago. There are bets at the Hallberg Rassy yard whether this will be […]
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We are very happy with our new furling gennaker and bowsprit. With this sail we can sail in light and prevailing winds. The bowsprit ensures a good mounting of the gennaker as far forward as possible on the […]
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The rest of the spring in Bruinisse flies by. Toine goes to the office regularly but I still work completely from 'home'. Fortunately that goes fine on the boat ☺️. Although it will probably be good for me to have a break after the […]
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From Wednesday morning until Friday afternoon we will be on the shore at Van Ast in Brouwershaven for the big spring cleaning. We can just live on the boat, accessible with a ladder 😃 […]
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We have replaced our galvanized Rocna anchor of 40 kg and 65 m chain with an Ultra stainless steel anchor of 35 kg and 100 m chain. Why? The Rocna has never let us down in the past 7 years […]
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How do you like living on the boat in Bruinisse? The whole month of April is pretty cold. Out of the wind in the sun it is lovely. But the wind, mostly from the north, makes it very unpleasant and causes cold nights. We leave the cockpit tent up for now 🤔 […]
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We have been living on the boat for 9 weeks now and we like it very much. It feels very natural, like it has been a long time since we lived in a house ☺️. The weeks in Dordrecht fly by. With working at home, occasionally some friends for dinner, the girls regularly visiting in the weekends […]
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Today the house is really sold. In the morning we drive from Dordrecht to Tilburg, first to the notary in Rijen to sign a power of attorney. Due to corona we are not allowed to be at the signing this afternoon. Hence the […]
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De eerste week wonen op de boot maken we meteen voor Nederlands begrippen heftige wintercondities mee met een flinke laag sneeuw en temperaturen tussen de -3 C overdag en -10 C ‘s nachts. Wij zijn er blij mee, het is meteen een mooie test van alle systemen. Later op reis gaan we dit soort condities […]
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This weekend, we are going from 450 square metres in our house back to 67 square metres (45 square metres on the boat and 12 square metres in storage). It's a good thing we have already sold, given away or taken quite a few things to the tip. Will it all fit 😊? We have been preparing as much as possible over the past week. Just a few last things […]
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It is the whole month of January a real trade on marketplace. We don't keep count anymore but the total number of advertisements is at least over 150, the total number of packages sent is at least over 70 and the total number of [...]
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Moving from a big house to a boat ... 'what do you do with all your stuff', we are regularly asked. The boat is already nicely furnished, so there's not much more we can go there. We'll take some of it with us [...]
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