We are spending the whole summer on the Grevelingen. After all, we are going to stop working November 1 this year so we don't have a summer vacation planned. Instead, we are making it a "working vacation. The first part of the...
New sails
The last major maintenance before our sailing trip is new sails. We are forced to do this because our old EPEX laminate sails have completely delaminated after 8 years, leaving holes in them. Completely unusable. Toine goes on...
New rigging
The boat is now 17 years old and that is how long the rigging has been on it. Usually 15-20 years is given for the lifetime of the stay. For us a reason to switch to new rigging now so that also...
Coppercoat
We did hesitate for a while ... are we going for coppercoat or not? For those who don't know what that is ... coppercoat is an underwater paint that consists of an epoxy resin supplemented with a good amount of copper powder. Hence ...
New composite valves
When the underwater hull is completely bare, Toine finds out that many of the valves in the hull penetration are no longer good. These were put in new in 2017. Does that happen so fast? We apparently suffered from galvanic current....
Spring 2024 - including trip to Chatham and London
Spring, like last winter and fall, is also relatively cold and very wet. Never before has so much rain fallen in the Netherlands in spring 🌧️. That's because last year was an El Niño year which made...
Starlink antenna installed
For when we leave next year, having a Starlink antenna on board will come in very handy. For those who do not know what Starlink is ... "it is satellite constellation under construction by the U.S. space company SpaceX (Elon Musk) for providing...