Sailing Yacht Yndeleau

Finally sailing the world after a big HUGE refit!

Finally set sail!

Imagine yourself being 30. Engaged, yay <3! Planning your wedding, saving up to realize that dreamwedding. And then… one evening, sitting on the sofa with your love, you started discussing that long-lasting dream of buyin a sailboat and sailing the world. It never seemed possible, but now, with the wedding-savings-mindset in place, it might just be…

So we postphoned the wedding, started looking for boats, bought an awesome (but quite a handfull of work) 44ft Van de Stadt and refitted her from top to bottom. And now, finally, we set sails and are heading South!

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Good stories

So we aim to tell you some good stories about the stuff that we run into while we travel. Enjoy our blogs, and provide us with feedback if you like!

We zijn landrotten

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Ik stap de douche uit en sla een grote badhanddoek om me heen. Ik hoor Suus vragen vanuit de ge-aircode slaapkamer of ik een glaasje water wil meenemen. De was hangt in onze tweede slaapkamer te drogen en ik doe de schuifpui van ons balkon nog even dicht…

Onze tweede potentiele orkaan – Isaias

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Juist als we alles hebben besloten hebben om te blijven liggen, pakken de donkere wolken zich samen. Suus en ik binden alles goed vast, halen onze zonnetent weg, leggen wat meer ankerketting uit en dan barst het los.

Op de vlucht voor een orkaan

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“Oh nee, hij gaat nu echt recht over ons heen komen!”. Suus opent net weer de telefoon nadat we aan land met een heerlijk gegrild Caribische kippetje hebben geluncht. De storm, met mogelijke orkaankracht van categorie 1 of categorie 2, zou zuidelijk over het Caribisch gebied trekken. Maar nu lijkt het geplande pad toch minder zuidelijk te zijn dan eerder voorspeld…

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Movie time!

Have you seen this historic video already? It was our first YouTube upload, and we kinda like to look back on how things were.. enjoy!

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“The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.”
– Casey Neistat

We couldn’t agree more! But of course, we still care a lot about safety 😅 Striving for the safest and wildest adventure!
Are you ready for the weekend? Got any adventures planned? We’re finally kitesurfing again 🤩 📸 by the talented crew of @sy_zoma 🙏🏻

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🔮 If you told us 5 years ago that we would...
💕 Go from colleagues to lovers after our first date on a sailboat
🏄‍♀️ Teach eachother how to kitesurf and sail
🚐 Quit our corporate jobs and buy an old van to kitesurf in France
🤑 Sold the van and made a little profit due to the upgrades we made (our love for refitting was activated)
🤕 Have some health challenges to deal with
💍 Got engaged on a sailboat 🤯 Mind was blown when we figured we could buy a sailboat for the price of a wedding 🌎 Decided to postpone the wedding and sail the world
⛵️ Bought a bigger boat than expected
😅 Took wayyyy more work & money than expected
🗓 Still managed to start our journey as planned!
... we probably wouldn’t have believed you!! Today it’s 5 years ago that we had that first date on a sailboat. 🥰 Jur shared his dream about sailing the world SOLO. And I was all like: I’m down. You better take me with you 🤪 hihi. The rest is history! So happy with you, big cheers 🥂 to many more adventures!

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Taking a bath in a waterfall.. ⛰ we never would have imagined how SWEET that feels after showering with salt water all the time! 🤩 There are so many waterfalls all around the island, any many people go there with their families during the weekend. Young, old, babies in backpacks... everybody goes hiking to enjoy the abundant nature here. We quickly adopted to this habit! Gotta love Martinique 💚

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“Hey, I put some new shoes on and suddenly everything is right” 🎶 Know this song by Paulo Nutini? Totally feeling it right now 🤩 All our cloths and shoes suffer quite a lot from all the UV, but we still wear them, even with holes in it, true sailor style 🤪 After almost a year, we decided to get some extra outfits, that will hopefully last us at least another year 😅 And how do you like my new shoezies? 😍
Some tips for buying cloths when cruising: ⚪️ Don’t buy white stuff 🙃 We made this mistake again... things will get unremovable stains in them within an hour... 🙄
🩳 Get plenty of fast drying shorts, or multiple swimming pants for guys. Boys; it’s the only thing you’ll wear. 👟 Make sure that you have some comfy sneakers with good grip, and a light-colored sole
👙 Ladies: get some really comfy bra’s. Light sport bra’s are perfect. I don’t like anything that has a band in your neck, it gives me headaches. The lighter, the better. 👕 Get multiple UV shirts, they are SO nice. Will dry easily, and they protect your skin. Use them when snorkeling too! 🧢 After trying multiple hats, I found that one with a hole in it, like the one on the pic, is the best for when you have longer hair. It will stay in place, even with 25knots! Jurre wears normal hats 😊 👉 What are your tips?

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What an amazing day of sailing we had, together with @sy_zoma! Thanks for this shot guys 🤩 Two days ago, we left for the Eastside of Martinique. But I guess we were a bit ‘out’ of it, we had some bad luck, things felt a bit off and there was some seasickness. Sooo we turned around, ended up in Salines (not bad at all) and gave it another try today. 👉 And today, all went so well! Dolphins, Zoma caught some fish, arrived in daylight and just finished our sundowners 🍻 Go with the flow, number one rule for sailors (and maybe even for life...?). Enjoy the start of your weekend!

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Today, we chill! 🤗 Check out the story for some sailing footage of yesterday’s sail (including some bad luck...)! It was awesome to be back on the water 😍 We’re now anchored before the Salines in the south of Martinique, and plan to go to the Eastside tomorrow. For today: we enjoy some rest at this very quiet bay! 😴

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Only 2️⃣ more nights before we hoist our sails! It will be a daytrip from Le Marin to the eastcoast of Martinique. Very excited, will we see dolphins like this guy we met during our crossing? Or whales 🐳? Or catch some big fishes...?! Or maybe... we’ll end up seasick since it’s been so long that we’ve sailed 😅 All is fine though, we can’t wait to be out there again!

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Happy weekend y’all! 🌅 We’re enjoying our final days here in St. Anne, before we head to the eastside of Martinique 🔜 We plan to go to Le Francois, that will take us a few hours of sailing. Perfect trip to see if we still know how to sail 🙉 We can’t wait! What’s on your agenda?

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What do we see here? One happy sir back on his SUP (and insanely blue water, jup) 🤩 Jur’s knee is healing so well, we’re so happy about that! Everyday, Jur adds a little extra activity to his range of movements 🦵 Next big step: we want to do a little sail to the east-side of the island (still Martinique) in the upcoming week. 🎥 But for today: we’ll get behind our computer to do a video conference with people that want to go on a big sail-trip too! ⛵️ Very excited to hear all about their plans, and to share their enthusiasm about almost leaving. It’s been less then a year for us, it sometimes still feels like yesterday when we left Amsterdam! 🥰

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Yes, it’s all over your timeline, and we think that’s good 🖤 It’s a process, it’s progress. The world is not always a wonderful place.
Racism. A horrible thing, hard to even talk about 😶 We feel a strange kind of guilt. Coming from a country with a slavery background. Being now in a country that is on the other side of that same history... the side that suffered 😥
That’s what you see in this photo. It’s a monument that stands on the coast, looking towards the sea, where in 1830 a ship sank that was filled with slaves. Horrible. We visited this site 2 weeks ago, and we still get goosebumps when we think back.
What can wé do? What should we do? We can at least speak about it. Say that it’s not okay. It was wrong, it is wrong. Say that we care. That we want it to change. That we will fight it together. That’s an important step towards healing 🖤
#blacklivesmatter

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