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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How did we do so far?

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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!

Rondje om de boot

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Ik duik het water in. Het is tijd voor beweging en op de boot vinden we niet genoeg ruimte om oms eens echt even goed in het zweet te werken. 20 rondjes om de boot zwemmen is ons idee vandaag. Suus zwemt net voor me, terwijl ik weer de ankerketting passeer. Het waait...

We hebben een groentetuintje!

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De dagen beginnen in elkaar te versmelten. De sociale contacten bestaan grotendeels uit een bezoekje waarbij we in de bijboot blijven zitten. En verder gaan de dagen verdomd snel. Onwaarschijnlijk hoe een klusje, even werken, snel boodschapje doen en koken je van 8...

Het “Corona netje” geeft veel informatie

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Dag 3: De derde dag in “quarantaine”. We besluiten te kijken of we nog naar de Carrefour kunnen. Met een formulier in de hand stappen we op de kant. Het is rustig maar met een ander stel die met de bijboot aankomt voelt het nog niet uitgestorven. Het is heerlijk om...

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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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Want to see photos? Check out our Instagram feed, that’s where you’ll find our latests pics.

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Looking back 👀 This lockdown time gives us so much time to look at all the awesome things that we encountered since we left Amsterdam last August! 🏝Here we are, in the Carribean, we sailed here all by ourselves. That’s still something we have to wrap our minds around. But we’ve got plenty of time for some serious grounding right now 😅 We’re still in lockdown at Martinique, all is well. We have been a bit silence on the gram, sorry for that! This too-blue-for-your-eyes photo (taken at Tobego Cays by Kobbe, thanks!) marks the start of sharing some new footage over the last months. We’ve still posted too little from our crossing, so stay tuned! And safe, and healthy of course 😘

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🎬 New week, new video out! 🤘 It's so bizarre to watch how different our life was a while ago, when we were still in mainland Europe. Now we're in "Europe" as well, although we're in the Caribbean 😆 Do you still get it?! Anyway, enjoy this vid, it has English subs as well! And have a great week y'all. Things will get better in time 😘

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🤩 How do you keep yourself entertained? @vangrevenbroek.johan created this amazing drawing of our Yndeleau, we feel honored, thank you Johan 👏🏻 So what do we do all day? We’re keeping ourselves pretty busy with work, boatrepairs, blogging, growing plants 🌱(check our story for today’s progress!). And.. Suus started something new. More on that in the upcoming days! Stay healthy and safe, and share your latest hobbies ☺️

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Some days feel darker than others... ☁️ still, the sun rises and sets everyday. 🌄 So much has changed over the last few weeks, the impact of the Corona virus 🦠 is spreading and we are considering our actions just like anybody on land. What measurements should we take? 😷 Corona is being mentioned more and more on the Carribean islands. We don’t want to overreact, but at the same time, we have to be careful and take this thing serious. Prevent further spreading anyway we can. So, what did we decide? 🌴 We’ll leave Union Island today and head towards Martinique. We wanted to go there anyway, but the original plan was to visit many more islands before heading north, such as Bequia and Mayreau. Since we heard that islands may be closing soon, we decided to head towards Martinique where everything is widely available. 🛠 We still need to fix some things after the crossing, and if we get stuck, we rather be stuck on a place where we can get stuff. What other measures do we take? We’ll be staying aboard a bit more, being a bit less social and outgoing. ⛵️ Back home things are getting more serious everyday. 🙊 That makes us feel a bit sad and weird. Being so far away... we feel for all of you, sending love, and wishing everyone well. This too shall pass. Hang in there, y’all! 😘

Ps. 🍞 Our bread recipe seems more useful than ever! Get your basics and start practicing! All it takes is some flour, yeast, salt and water 💧See our previous post!

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🍞 The BEST and EASIEST bread recipe you’ll ever find, under 5min. NO 🙅‍♀️ oven or kneading needed👇 Nothing beats the smell and taste of fresh, warm bread right?! And making it yourself allows you to have fresh bread anytime, anywhere! We’ve practiced really hard, got many hurting belly situations due to failed productions (yeah, we ate those anyway #nowaste 😂)... but we finally nailed it and HERE’S THE RECIPE! Save it, tag buddies who need this very easy recipe in their lives to impress partners, homies or party people. You can’t believe how easy this is. Again: NO kneading involved!
Ok, here we go:
🔹 Tools needed: pan with non-stick coating and lid. Bowl and vork. See pic 1 📸 - Ingredients needed: 300gr flour, 200ml water, drop of oil, 1 tablespoon of salt, 1 tablespoon of dry yeast (gist) 🥄 - Action! Mix the flour with the yeast and salt in the bowl. Slowly add water and stir with a vork until you get a solid paste. Might cruble a bit, just continue stirring and it will become one blob. Don’t overuse water: 200ml is max, you can use less 🚰
🔹 Bonus: go crazy with add-ons if you like. Raisins, seeds, muesli, or go for garlic and herbs. Go wild and share your ideas below! 💕
🔹 Put a little oil in the non-stick pan, drop your dow in it and put a lid on it. No need for complete air-tightness ⚗️
🔹 Wait for at least 3hours. When you feel the dow doesn’t grow anymore; continue! 🚦
🔹 Bake it 🙌 on the stove! No oven needed. First, with lid on, about 14min on medium size. Turn it over when golden brown, then bake for about 8min, taking the lid off halfway. The exact timing depends on your pan and fire 🔥 🔹 ENJOY!! Love to hear your experiences, see some photos of your bread 🥖 Share the knowlegde 🤗

Ps. Mistakes made and lessons learned: 1. Don’t use a pan without non-stick. No matter how much oil you use, it will stick. 2. Original recipe required 8+ hours of waiting before baking. We found that that’s a bit too much; the size of the dough is biggest at around 4hours of waiting. 3. Don’t forget the salt 😂

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Making the dream work, requires Team Work! 👫 Being a team; what does that mean? Many of our friends shared with us “how can you be together for so long, on such a small space?”. Well, it isn’t always cocktails, kitesessions and sunsets 😅 But we both feel strongly that our relationship is still developing and growing 💗 During the crossing, we had some intense discussions (or one could say ‘arguments’ 😙) about the stupidest, dummest things. And that on its own frustrated us as well! Doing thé Big Thing that we worked so hard for, and there we were, nit-fitting over dum things. But we faced it, head on. It took several good talks, and slowly we unraveled the why and how of our arguments. And that taught us so much about ourselves, the other and our dynamics 🌗 Now, we experience and benefit from our growth, for example when something happens that used to cause a argument, we now both know how to handle it. 💪🏻 And we feel like that made Team Us a lot stronger. Thank you, huge ocean, for the lessons learned! 🙏🏻

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Is this water for real? 💙 Swipe right for the most intense blue water that we’ve seen! ⏩ Is this the same water that is ultimately connected to the water back home, the North Sea? YES! 😯 That’s so bizarre... during our passages, we saw the water getting more and deeper blue as the miles flew by. Such an impressive experience. We both feel that the water is also much saltier here, does anybody know if that’s true?

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🥂 Champaign sailing! This very tranquilo sail trip was so unreal, with calm seas and very low but steady wind. It allowed us to sail with all sails out 🥰 Ánd we dare to fly the drone! We’ve been at Union Island for quite a while now, and slowly we get the itch to move on 🔜. Do you recognize that feeling: once you arrive, you’re like “I’m never gonna leave!”, and then at one point, the moment is there to continue.
Ps. Want a cool orange tip in your sail as well? Reach out to @devriesmaritiem, they’ll get you sorted!

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“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
― Leonardo da Vinci 🪁 *Also applicable for sailing & sea 🥰*

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😂 Jurre is seriously impressing the ladies with his self-caught lobster 🦞 Let’s just say it was our lucky day 😇 Afterwards, I, Suus, had to take it home on the sup, and I have to say: I never paddled faster 😅 they slowly moved towards me, but I was faster 💪🏻

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