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There she is! Meet Evi
“Go, go, go!”, just 3 seconds later I signal Jonas to slow down. I am standing on my foil board for the first time. It is made for kitesurfing but we are practicing behind a dinghy. To get a feeling for the board and the lift it is giving first, before also have to pay attention to manoeuvring the flying kite. A foil is connected to the bottom of a board, and the airplane style wings lift your board out of the water…
Wake up call
“Go, go, go!”, just 3 seconds later I signal Jonas to slow down. I am standing on my foil board for the first time. It is made for kitesurfing but we are practicing behind a dinghy. To get a feeling for the board and the lift it is giving first, before also have to pay attention to manoeuvring the flying kite. A foil is connected to the bottom of a board, and the airplane style wings lift your board out of the water…
Dolphins in the mooringfield.
Trrrrrr, Trrrr. I hear my phone vibrating on our steel deck. “Dolphins just 50 meters away from your boat!?!” I read in my whatsapp and scream to Suus. We are running to the front of the boat when a group of the most magnificent fishes are swimming by. Friends of us already jumped in their dinghy and are swimming next to them.
Going to Bonaire, or aren’t we?
While rocking and dancing on the waves, we pass the lighthouse of Curacao. A moderate breeze is healing Yndeleau and we tack every half hour to stay...
Wow, it has been 10 months!
"Wow darling, we haven't written anything in a long, long time” I say to Suus surprised while I am opening our website and see our latest post. It...
FAQ about crossing an ocean; part two
Good morning! We have passed our last timezone yesterday and are now 5 hours behind Amsterdam. Local time is 01.51. Only 300 nautical miles to go....
FAQ about crossing an ocean! Part 1
We have almost sailed 2500 nautical miles, 4500 km, from Tenerife towards Barbados. Champagne sailing is clearly over and it is rough now. We expect...
Nothing like a fresh bread in the morning!
Jur can almost start a little bakery aboard, his bread baking skills improve everyday! White bread, bread with raisins, and occasionally a...
Little Red Head Riding Squalls
Seriously, the minute after I finished my PredictWind update with a notion of ‘our first drops of rain’, we were racing upwind and I had to sprint...
And here’s the photo that belongs to our ‘household’ update!
Yesterday, we wrote about all the householding tasks that we do aboard. One of them is cleaning the solar panels to maximize their power production....
Did we really catch a mahi mahi? Here’s the proof!
Here's our biggest catch so far! The 80cm long mahi mahi, that we, unfortunately, had to give back to the ocean. We named him Frits. As you can see,...
Facing fears: yes, it’s scary at times
It suddenly gets to me. 12000m of water below our boat. 12km! More than 1000km behind us, but even more in front of us. I. AM. SO. SCARED. SOS. The...
Half way there!! Let’s hope this party pic comes through
YAY! Today, we celebrate our HALF WAY POINT!! So awesome, from now on we count down instead of up. It's kinda unbelievable to be at sea for already...
Happy Breakfasting at Sea! test photo
Can you see this photo? It prob won’t come through...
Stranger Things at Sea
Stranger Things at Sea: absolute nothingness You’ve seen it in films. The Matrix, or Black Mirror, or Stranger Things. The main character stands in...
Daily Life aboard: what do we do all day?!
Daily Life aboard: what do we do all day?! When you ever have been on a verrrry long flight, you must have felt the unbearable impatience at a...
Migrant boat confrontation: we live to sail, they sail to live
Migrant boat confrontation: we live to sail, they sail to live "Panpan, Panpan, Panpan. This is the coastguard with a general safety message. Please...
No wind: frustrating or relaxed?
Moving from right to left. Everything in the boat moves with the motion of the sea. The sails are flapping and when Suus wakes up we drop the...
Gratefull
Quicky it shoots towards us. Strong small lights with an arrow of glowing water following the dark head. The light is playing in the water. With a...
Fish? Wait. No fish…
"Trrrrrrrr. Rrrrrrr." The fishing rod almost produces smoke. When Suus rushes towards it, it stops as sudden as it appeared. A disappointed and...
Sweaty palms… left and turned back around
Well hi there! Our first official blog post from sea, aka our message in a bottle to you. This morning, we woke up very relaxed. We had never been...
7 lessons learned on the Vertrekkersdag 2018
This blog is in Dutch only (for now). “Ik verloor bijna m’n been. Het begon met een klein sneetje in m’n voet, en voordat ik het wist moest ik...
“I’m bald, so I’ll sail South”
English translation below! Elke winter weer trekken we dikke truien aan, lange warme broeken en liggen we binnen onder een dekentje Netflix te...
But first… a new engine
From kiteboard to a 44 footer On September 1st 2018, we were featured in the magazine Waterkampioen by the ANWB. We've translated the article so...
There she is! Meet Evi
“Go, go, go!”, just 3 seconds later I signal Jonas to slow down. I am standing on my foil board for the first time. It is made for kitesurfing but we are practicing behind a dinghy. To get a feeling for the board and the lift it is giving first, before also have to pay attention to manoeuvring the flying kite. A foil is connected to the bottom of a board, and the airplane style wings lift your board out of the water…
Wake up call
“Go, go, go!”, just 3 seconds later I signal Jonas to slow down. I am standing on my foil board for the first time. It is made for kitesurfing but we are practicing behind a dinghy. To get a feeling for the board and the lift it is giving first, before also have to pay attention to manoeuvring the flying kite. A foil is connected to the bottom of a board, and the airplane style wings lift your board out of the water…
Dolphins in the mooringfield.
Trrrrrr, Trrrr. I hear my phone vibrating on our steel deck. “Dolphins just 50 meters away from your boat!?!” I read in my whatsapp and scream to Suus. We are running to the front of the boat when a group of the most magnificent fishes are swimming by. Friends of us already jumped in their dinghy and are swimming next to them.
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