Sailing Folly – by Arjan Krabbendam

Holidays 2026 – first day

The predictions for wind direction were not so good for today. Too much probably to raise the mainsail and too much from the [...]

This will be a long and special day to sail. It’s the 4th of May, the day we remember all who have died [...]

Yesterday evening it was a puzzle with current. What time to leave IJmuiden and when to arrive in Den Helder, especially because of [...]

At 6:00am I awaked spontaneously and a beautiful sunrise was presented. My alarm was only set 15 minutes later. Need to get sailing [...]

This morning I started with a visit to the supermarket for 4 days of supplies. Not my favourite waste of time, but it’s [...]

Some repair works had to speed-up, since the launch was brought forward by a day and this was already a change in the [...]

For no reason I didn’t visit the town Hoorn before. This weekend this should change. For many days the expectations were North 4 [...]

Last year I sailed Folly to my hometown Deventer. The mast has to come off for that trip and it takes a long [...]

After breakfast we make a voyage plan again and a checklist for this morning. I checked the diesel, it seems that we only [...]

Although we get up at 6:30 and have breakfast at 7:00, we leave 30 minutes late at 9:30. Also we helped an Englishman, [...]