Return from Lowestoft
After breakfast we make a voyage plan again and a checklist for this morning. I checked the diesel, it seems that we only
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AuthorArjan Krabbendam
IJmuiden – Lowestoft
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,
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Preparation Crossing the North Sea
When you like to be 24 hours at sea and really want to be off-shore, the course from IJmuiden to Lowestoft is perfect.
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The Klotsbak with low diesel
With a schoolfriend I started for a week sailing today. The wind expectations were not so good, a West 5 at least, possibly
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Cooling water
This year Folly was again at MetJaap during the winter. She survived mostly the storm Eunice, however the panel got leaky with resulting
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Skipper at North Sea
Today is the first time that I was skipper at the North Sea and I enjoyed it very much. The past years I
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Current against wind
Sometimes you get a real live experience from a textbook example. Today current against wind. After we passed the Stevinsluisen it was still
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Launcing Folly
Last couple of weeks, Folly was docked at metJaap to do maintenance like cleaning the underwatership, after being in the water for 2
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