Summer holidays

2020 – summer holiday - Denmark followed by the refit in Sweden

We've called at the following ports:

(Bruinisse) - Volkeraksluizen - IJmuiden - Brunsbüttel - Kiel - Orth - Grossenbode - Warnemünde - Hesnæs - Femø - Verjø - Korshavn - Samsø - Gillejeje - Helsingør - Ven - Copenhagen - three anchorages in Sweden - Adams Boat Care on Vindön - Vlieland - Harlingen - Lelystad - Amsterdam - Dordrecht (our winter mooring)

Travel duration: 4 weeks

For the travel report click HERE.


2019 - summer holiday - Ireland and Scotland via roundtrip UK

We've called at the following ports:

(Bruinisse) - Breskens - Dun Laoghaire - Bangor - Loch Ryan - Aran - Rothesay - beginning Crinan - end Crinan - Craobh Haven - Puilldobhrain - Corpach - Loch Loch Lochy - Loch Ness - North Shields - Bruinisse

Travel duration: 4 weeks

Distance: 1500 nm

For the travel report click HERE.


2016 – summer holiday - South Brittany

We've called at the following ports:

(Bruinisse) - Breskens - Camaret- Concarneau - Iles les Glenan - Île d'Houat - Courtesty - Île d'Arz - Île d'Houat - Belle Île - Île de Groix - La Forret - Iles les Glenan - Quiberon - Vannes - Bénodet - Morgat - Yarmouth - Newton River - Folley Inn - Bruinisse

Travel duration: 4 weeks

Distance: 1250 nm

For the travel report click HERE.


2015 - summer holiday - South Brittany

We've called at the following ports:

(Bruinisse) - Breskens - Guernsey - 'l Aber Wrac'h - Bénodet - Lorient - Belle Île - Île d'Houat - Trinité-sur-Mer - Gulf of Morbihan - Île de Groix - River Odet - Douarnenez - Morgat - Darthmouth - Yarmouth - Lake Veere - Bruinisse

Travel duration: 4 weeks

Distance: 1120 nm

For the travel report click HERE.


2014 - summer holiday - Roundtrip North Scotland

We've called at the following ports:

(Bruinisse) - Stellendam - Inverness - Caledonian Canal - Fort William - Tobermory - Cana - Maillag - Rona - Stornaway - Stromness - Stellendam - Willemstad - Bruinisse

Travel duration: 4 weeks

Distance: 1370 nm

For the travel report click HERE.

This trip was easy to do in 4 weeks, mainly because we did the outbound and inbound trip in 1 stage of 3 days.


2013- summer holiday - Illes of Scilly and South England

We've called at the following ports:

(Bruinisse) - Veere - Vlissingen - Pont Cressa (Scillie Islands) - St Agnes / The Cove - Tresco - St Helen's Pool - Tean Sound - Great Ganilly - St Agnes / The Cove - Helford River - Plymouth - Salcombe - Veer Lake - Bruinisse

Travel duration: 4 weeks

Distance: 900 nm

We made this trip with the Brandaan.

For the travel report click HERE.

This voyage was easy to do in 4 weeks because we sailed in 1 stage of 3 stops to the Scilly Islands. After that it was nice anchor weather for 10 days. We did the return voyage in 1,5 weeks with from Salcombe in 1 stage of 2 stops back to Bru.


2012 - summer holiday - Denmark 

We've called at the following ports:

(Bruinisse) - Vlieland - Brunsbüttel - Laboe - Søby - Avernakø - Arø - Middelfart - (Legoland) - Juelsminde - Als - Hørup - Kielerkanaal anchorage - Cuxhaven - Roompot lock - Bruinisse

Travel duration: 3 weeks

Distance: 750 nm

We made this trip with the Brandaan. 

For the travel report click HERE.  

For us a short holiday with a 'slow' way to Denmark, a not so long stay in Denmark itself and a very effective way back by estimating the good weather from the Baltic Sea and sailing back to Zeeland in 1 stage of 2 stops from Cuxhaven.


2011 - summer holiday - southwest Norway

We've called at the following ports:

(Bruinisse) - Peterhead - Bergen - (Sognefjord) - Lysevagen (Hardangerfjord) - Bjornafjord - Sundall - Husnes - abandoned anchor bay - Rovear - Haugesund - Tau - (Pulpit) - Lysefjord - Stavanger - Hellevoetsluis - Bruinisse

Travel duration: 4 weeks

Distance: 1270 nm

We made this trip with the Brandaan.

For the travel report click HERE.

This trip was very easy to do in just under 4 weeks with 1 week for the outward trip to Bergen, two weeks in Norway itself and the return trip in 1 leg of 2.5 days.


2008 - summer holiday - West Brittany

We've called at the following ports:

(Bruinisse) - Breskens - Dunkirk - Boulogne - Dieppe - Cherbourg - Alderney - Guernsey - 'l Aberwrac'h - Brest - Camaret - Boulogne - Bruinisse

Travel duration: 4 weeks (with 1 week back to the Netherlands)

Distance: 950 nm

We made this trip with the Brandaan.

For the travel report click HERE.

A trip with some bad luck. On the way back bad weather in the first part of the Channel. From Brest a week home due to family circumstances. Saved it in 4 weeks by sailing back home from Camaret in 1 stage of 3.


2007 - summer holiday - roundtrip Scandinavia

We've called at the following ports:

(Bruinisse) - Roompot - Vlieland - Mandal - Norwegian archipelago - Rigor - Swedish archipelago - Marstrand - Anholt - Limfjord - Thyboron - IJmuiden - Hellevoetsluis - Bruinisse 

Travel duration: 4 weeks

Distance: 1250 nm

We made this trip with the Brandaan.

For the travel report click HERE.

In order to make this trip in 4 weeks, it is important to be able to sail from the Netherlands to Norway in 1 stage of 2 stages. After that, it is a quiet schedule, where the return journey takes 1.5 stages from Thyboron to the Netherlands.


2006 - summer holiday - Roundtrip English Channel

We've called at the following ports:

(Bruinisse) - Breskens - Newport - Dover - Eastborn - Brighton - various places Solent - Cherbourg - Guernsey - Sark - Alderney - Cherbourg - St Vase - Dieppe - Boulogne - Newport - Roompot - Bruinisse

Travel duration: 3.5 weeks

Distance: 750 nm

We made this trip with the Brandaan.

For the travel report click HERE.