Nr 66. Boat out of the water
Usually the following picture is not good news: a boat being hoisted out of the water….. But in this case, it’s a known necessity. Because every once a while the underwatership of a boat has get new antifouling (special paint to prevent a growth of algae under your boat). And a haul-out is always a […]
Nr 65. High in the Sky: Les Sables d’Olonne
After island hopping at the south coast of Bretagne, we came back to the mainland of France again. In Les Sables d’Olonne. We left Bretagne now: les Sables is a seaside resort and part of La Vendee. And les Sables is familiar terrain for us: on 20. June 2019 we picked up our catamaran in […]
Nr 64. Islands of South Bretagne
In June the weather has been great in Europe! Also in France, it is sunny and sailing along the south coast of Bretagne, we decided to go islandhopping to get the extra summer feeling! We explored 3 islands, and on those islands, each time we stayed there in a different way with our catamaran. L’île […]
Nr 63. Coast of Bretagne
‘The French really can’t sail’, Reinhold sighed, ‘look at them!’. The German points at a boat that makes a turn for the third time in the harbor of Roscoff to park their boat in a box. A harbor is sometimes just like a drive-in cinema: you ‘drive’ in with your own vehicle, park your boat […]
Nr 62. Saint-Malo and Le-Mont-Saint-Michel
We sailed south from Jersey to Saint-Malo, that’s at the coast of Bretagne. It’s also called Côte d’Émeraude, because of the green or emerald color of the water. It’s still so amazing to see this kind of color in the northern part of France, because it is still the North Sea. We were surprised by […]
Nr 61. Jersey
When we sailed out of the harbor of Cherbourg at 7.00h in the morning, ‘waved’ goodbye by a group of 15 dolphins that swam in front of the bow of the ship, we were excited to go to Jersey! The excitement had 2 sides: we heart so many good stories about Jersey by people that […]
Nr 60. Dolphins in Cherbourg
Cherbourg is a harbor many sailors know: it is on a strategic point in the Street of Dover, close to south coast of England. So it’s a popular harbor for English sailors to make the crossing to the mainland of Europe. When we arrived in the port of Cherbourg we noticed a lot of English […]
Nr 59. D-day in Normandy
We left Le Havre and sailed further along the French coast. We came into the heart of Normandy, which is famous for the ‘Invasion beaches’. We sailed into the harbor of Quistreham and the contrast could not be greater with what happened on the 6th of June 1944 when the British, American and Canadian allies […]
Nr 58. Visiting the Lagoon factory
When we were in Le Havre, we made an appointment with Hemmo Dijkstra, our boat dealer in the Netherlands, to visit the Lagoon factory in Bellevigny which is about 4 hours driving south of le Havre, in the province of the Vendée. Hemmo was there with some new catamaran clients who have their ship build in […]
Nr 57. Le Havre
While sailing along the coast of France, we have good weather: sunshine and wind of around 20 knots coming from north/east. So that means we have the wind at the back of our catamaran and we can use our new big ‘kite’, the parasailor! When sailing here, you have to pay attention to fishermen though. […]