Nr 43. Amsterdam & friends
We have started to sail south in the Netherlands, so our voyage to the Mediterranean has officially started! And the weather in the Netherlands has changed towards sunny as well, so it’s happy sailing here! First city after Stavoren was Volendam, we had a spot next to the famous replica ship ‘Halve Maen’. This Dutch […]
Nr 42. Our 10 favorite boat upgrades
We have been in Stavoren harbor for 3 weeks and have started to descend to the South of the Netherlands in the next 3 weeks. When you are in a harbor for a longer period of time (say at least 1 week), you have time to do repairs to your boat and also do some […]
Nr 41. Storm Eunice
On Friday 18th of February, it was announced in the Netherlands that a storm of at least 8 Bft would hit inland and especially the Dutch coast. For us with the catamaran in the inner old harbor of Stavoren, we would be quite sheltered, but still, we had to take precautionary measures to keep the […]
Nr 40. Online training from the catamaran
‘How do you organize your online trainings while sailing?’. I get this question a lot and I like to explain how we arrange this. I tried to explain it to the famous Vrouwtje van Stavoren last week (the statue here in Holland), but she kept staring at the IJsselmeer 😊. How it all startedI have […]
Nr 39. Back to Holland: for 6 weeks
Yes, we are back in Holland (Stavoren) again with the catamaran! Until about the end of March and then we continue our sailtrip again. We want to start sailing south along the coast of Belgium and France to spend the summer at the coast of Portugal. And to do so, we had to make the […]
Nr 38. What does a typical sailing day looks like?
We get many questions about our world trip by boat: ‘how did you chose this ship?’, ‘how long are you planning on sailing around the world’ or ‘ how do you finance your trip?’. We have answered the top 10 questions on our FAQ-page, but 1 question would take so many words to answer, we […]
Nr 37. Newcastle
Have you ever been to Newcastle? We have not, but we are very enthusiastic about the city! After 5 days of visiting, we really appreciated this city. It actually reminded me of Rotterdam during my study time at the Erasmus University from 1994-1999. Rotterdam did not have a good reputation in the 80’s and early […]
Nr 36. Welcome to England!
Berwick-upon-Tweed. That would turn out the be the first harbor in England, since we said goodbye to Scotland and Edinburgh! It’s only 15 miles from the border of Scotland, but Berwick-upon-Tweed sounds already very English 😉. A friend told us: ‘Ah, if you hear about a town called ‘something-upon-something’, you are in England!’. During our […]
Nr 35. Repairs, repairs, repairs
‘Anything that can break on your ship, will break’. That was not a very uplifting remark, a sailor made to me during our conversation! I interviewed 10 sailors in 2020, who had sailed the world seas, in preparation for our catamaran world trip. This sailor made it very clear: ‘the salt water of the seas […]
Nr 34. Goodbye to Scotland: 10 surprising facts we learned about The Scots
After we spend the festivities of Christmas and the New Year in Edinburgh, it is time for us to sail further south. And Edinburgh is one of the last ports of Scotland, only 1 or 2 sailing days away, we will cross the border of England! After 2 months of Sailing in Scotland, we find […]