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 [...]
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 [...]
More wind than expected July 24, 2021August 21, 2023Sybren Krabbendam On the way to Amsterdam we were almost under sail the entire time. First we had to get out the Gouwzee against wind [...]
Sailing to Enkhuizen July 22, 2021August 21, 2023Sybren Krabbendam Today we sailed from Andijk to Enkhuizen. The waves on the IJsselmeer weren’t that high, the wind force was 4 Beaufort from the [...]
Day one sailingtrip 2021 July 21, 2021August 21, 2023Nienke Krabbendam This morning we left Indijk at 10:07am. Certainly late, since we were planning on leaving at 9. Via theĀ Johan Friso canal we [...]