No Hoorn August 16, 2025April 6, 2026Arjan 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, 2024April 6, 2026Arjan 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, 2023July 27, 2026Arjan 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, 2023July 27, 2026Arjan 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, 2023July 27, 2026Arjan 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, 2023July 27, 2026Arjan 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, 2022April 6, 2026Arjan 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, 2021July 27, 2026Arjan 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, 2021July 27, 2026Arjan Krabbendam Sometimes you get a real live experience from a textbook example. Today current against wind. After we passed the Stevinsluisen it was still [...]
Launcing Folly April 26, 2021April 6, 2026Arjan Krabbendam Last couple of weeks, Folly was docked at metJaap to do maintenance like cleaning the underwatership, after being in the water for 2 [...]