A Glass of Madeira
Marion came aboard in Tenerife last night, 6 November 2025, arriving on the very same plane that Arnold was taking home. Funny, because they even got to say a quick hello: Arnold was still in the check-in queue when …
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Centro Nautico Algés
It’s Sunday 5 October today, and I’ve been back on the boat for a week already. Plenty of boat jobs have been done again, including yet more changes to the navigation “black box” space. Since the …
Lisbon
On the third day after Porto, Ella and I arrived in the bay that is also home to Lisbon. We spent the first afternoon and evening in the anchorage off Cascais. Ella had already been ashore there with her friends, so we …
Spanish Rías and Porto
Last week we left Sada in “the usual weather”, heading for the western rías (rivers, though low-lying fjords would be a better description). By the usual weather I mean the “Portuguese Northerly”, …
Brittany (France) and Sada (Spain)
The weather in Cherbourg was rather unsettled: frequent rain and a string of depressions marching up the Channel and over England. So when we got a weather window with relatively little wind, but from a direction that …
Cadzand, Ostend and Cherbourg
We set off from Harlingen last Tuesday with a lovely NW wind. Around eight o’clock we reached the start of the Schulpengat, the channel between Den Helder and the North Sea. Oops, there was more of a sea running …
Lisbon, here we come!
Right, we (Arnold, Ella and Kees) are off on our summer holiday and/or leg one of the round-the-world voyage! Marion is looking after Miep, Arnold’s cat, but may well pop by at some point too. This morning, out of …
The Big Departure
Right, finally half an hour to spare to post a quick update. The last few months have been hectic, working on the boat, first at KM in Makkum and then the last 3 weeks at home. The time has flown by. Steering …