No Hoorn August 16, 2025August 29, 2025Arjan Krabbendam For no reason I didn’t visit the town Hoorn before. This weekend this should change. For many days the expectations were North 4 [...]
Start from home April 21, 2024June 15, 2025Arjan Krabbendam Last year I sailed Folly to my hometown Deventer. The mast has to come off for that trip and it takes a long [...]
Return from Lowestoft August 13, 2023August 21, 2023Arjan Krabbendam After breakfast we make a voyage plan again and a checklist for this morning. I checked the diesel, it seems that we only [...]
IJmuiden – Lowestoft August 11, 2023August 21, 2023Arjan Krabbendam 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, [...]
Preparation Crossing the North Sea August 9, 2023August 21, 2023Arjan Krabbendam When you like to be 24 hours at sea and really want to be off-shore, the course from IJmuiden to Lowestoft is perfect. [...]
The Klotsbak with low diesel August 8, 2023August 21, 2023Arjan Krabbendam With a schoolfriend I started for a week sailing today. The wind expectations were not so good, a West 5 at least, possibly [...]
Cooling water June 6, 2022August 21, 2023Arjan Krabbendam This year Folly was again at MetJaap during the winter. She survived mostly the storm Eunice, however the panel got leaky with resulting [...]
Skipper at North Sea August 2, 2021August 21, 2023Arjan Krabbendam Today is the first time that I was skipper at the North Sea and I enjoyed it very much. The past years I [...]
Current against wind August 1, 2021August 21, 2023Arjan Krabbendam Sometimes you get a real live experience from a textbook example. Today current against wind. After we passed the Stevinsluisen it was still [...]
Wake up call July 28, 2021August 21, 2023Nienke Krabbendam This morning I woke up to a sound of another boat slamming into us. First I thought we were already sailing, but we [...]