Arnold on Aruba
While Arnold was on the plane to Aruba on Monday, Mark Rutte announced a strict lockdown for the whole of the Netherlands, and travel abroad was immediately and strongly discouraged. So Arnold really picked his date …
Sailing around the world on Merrimac, a Stadtship 56.
The sky is falling
Yesterday I came aboard and saw that one of the ceiling panels in the deckhouse had come down. It was still hanging from the autopilot control, but otherwise it had come completely loose.
The next season ...
Well, so there we were, back in the Netherlands again, a strange summer full of highs and lows. Back in Harlingen, straight to the Brouwdok of course, which had opened its doors just a few days earlier. Luckily Gerard …
Home again
After we flew home on 13 June, following an eventful week, things went (understandably) quiet here on the blog. Nobody wants to be bored with posts about how we’re getting on at home. Spoiler: two weeks of very …
Is it really going to happen?
We’re ready for it! A stopover in Curaçao and then straight on to the Netherlands!
Not home yet
My plan was to be in the air right now, 6:37 pm Aruba time, on the plane home, telling you all about the fantastic week we’ve had here with our new family members Jeannette and Jeroen from Fidelis and Luuke and …
Lovely pictures
SY Eight, Luuke and Robbert, taking lovely pictures of us🥰
Visitors
We’re lying at anchor off the marina. While we’re busy rigging the dinghy alongside so I can go for a swim, an official-looking RIB turns up. We wonder which authority has come to give us the third degree …
Aruba!
Our lovely little boat has once again carried us safely and swiftly to Aruba, across a Caribbean sea that was rather boisterous at times (30+ knots). Off Curaçao, at half past eleven at night, we were called up by the …
Guadeloupe - Aruba
Squall dead ahead, otherwise all good. The Gendarmerie also popped by to say hello. But we missed the worst of it. We even managed to stay dry. Nice breeze though, up to 25 knots. Good for our speed, which crept towards …
Departure
Tomorrow’s the day, we’re finally off. We’re heading for Aruba. The past week has been a flurry of Facebook posts back and forth about when the various countries would open up. In the end we decided on …
Change of Address
We just wanted to let you all know that we’ve moved. As of today we no longer live in Baie Mahault, but in Marina Bas-du-Fort in Point-à-Pitre. That’s the capital of Guadeloupe, named after a Dutchman called …