We planned to return to Antipole to do some jobs during October, but there was no spell of good weather, so when we did return on Tuesday of last week, we decided to proceed with having her lifted out for…
Westwards from Dover, Brighton and home!
Having had a good whinge about the prospects west from Dover, the next day the wind gods ignored the earlier forecast and offered us a nice Force 4 starting from the north north west, which gave us a fast passage…
Vlissingen, Dunkerque and the white cliffs of Dover
After the stiff sail down from Scheveningen, we had a relaxing three days in Vlissingen moored in the VVW Schelde yacht club. Vlissingen is a pleasant relaxed town, mainly a port with a sea-front boulevard, behind that an old central…
IJmuiden, Scheveningen & Den Haag and Vlissingen
On Wednesday 12th we left Den Helder at 6:45am and had a very fast sail down to IJmuiden. The wind was west to south west force 5 and force 6 at times and we had one reef down to start…
Stavoren, Hinderloopen, Makkum and Den Helder
We left the Fluessen on Wednesday and had a good sail down the remaining lakes and waterways until we arrived at Stavoren on the IJsselmeer coast. Stavoren claims to be a very ancient town, in its heyday before the Zuiderzee…