The last day of our trip started at 07:00 with no wind in the marina.
But as soon as we were outside the marina on the green water of the IJsselmeer, we noticed a good and increasing wind form the South.
By the time we set our sails, the wind had increased to 14 knots, a very good wind to have full sails: mainsail and Genua.
During the day that wind would further increase and at a certain moment it reached 24 knots.
The sweet water form the IJsselmeer came over the front deck and washed all salt of the last weeks from the Boekanier. For the first time it was welcome.
It seamed the boat wanted to show us that it liked the sweet water better then salty, because it gave us the best speed of the whole period. We did touched 8,0 knots which is not bad for this kind of yachts.
At 14:00 PM we landed the Boekanier in her own berth at the Flevo Marina and in stead of the usual steigerborrel we treated ourselves on a nice lunch.
Then we realized that the trip was over. This was the end station and all that was left was cleaning and packing.
Therefor it is time to thank my crew members for the fantastic time we spend together, their valuable advises, the nice discussions we had, the good meals that have been prepared and friendships that have been created.
Skipper Cees wishes you all have had a good time and surely want to see you back on board soon.
Have a nice summer and please do stay in contact. You know my e-mail address.
Dear Followers:
We will not longer keep you updated: as this is the last blog from a very successful and happy Trip to St. Malo and the English South Coast.
Skipper Cees
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maandag 11 juli 2011
vrijdag 8 juli 2011
July 7, 2011
July 6, 2011: Ijmuiden – Den Oever.
As we are one day ahead of schedule, we decided to take the long way home:
Ijmuiden – Den Oever – Lelystad. This rote is known as the North-Holland tour. (or in Dutch: rondje Noord-Holland)
We started or day quite early in order to benefit fully from the current in the Northerly direction.
The rather strong wind was South to South-West.
We had both sails fully employed and with a nice speed we raced to Den Helder.
There we had to turn East and at the same time the wind deminished.
At the end of the bouyed channel “Het Vissersgaatje” the wind was completely gone.
We landed in the fishing harbour in Den Ever, which is not open for yachts, but we convinced the harbourmaster that we only wanted to eat some fresh fish and then leave for the marina.
We suspect the harbourmaster has family relation to the fish restaurant, because not only did he happely agree that we would raft up to the “Wieringen 142”, a local fisherboat, but he also recommended a restaurant...
Anyway, the fish was excellent and after dinner we went to the most boring marina in the Netherlands: Den Oever.
A very nice sailing day ended with 46,5 mile on the log.
We will keep you updated.
Cees, Sam and Oscar.
As we are one day ahead of schedule, we decided to take the long way home:
Ijmuiden – Den Oever – Lelystad. This rote is known as the North-Holland tour. (or in Dutch: rondje Noord-Holland)
We started or day quite early in order to benefit fully from the current in the Northerly direction.
The rather strong wind was South to South-West.
We had both sails fully employed and with a nice speed we raced to Den Helder.
There we had to turn East and at the same time the wind deminished.
At the end of the bouyed channel “Het Vissersgaatje” the wind was completely gone.
We landed in the fishing harbour in Den Ever, which is not open for yachts, but we convinced the harbourmaster that we only wanted to eat some fresh fish and then leave for the marina.
We suspect the harbourmaster has family relation to the fish restaurant, because not only did he happely agree that we would raft up to the “Wieringen 142”, a local fisherboat, but he also recommended a restaurant...
Anyway, the fish was excellent and after dinner we went to the most boring marina in the Netherlands: Den Oever.
A very nice sailing day ended with 46,5 mile on the log.
We will keep you updated.
Cees, Sam and Oscar.
donderdag 7 juli 2011
July 6: Roompot (Zeeland) - IJmuiden
July 6, 2011: Roompot - IJmuiden.
The barometer had dropped overnight from 1022 h Pa to 1015 h Pa.
This meant that a low pressure cyclone had come our way and that we could expect strong wind.
Nevertheless we left Roompot outside shelter harbour for IJmuiden at 05:00 AM.
The first part with help of the motor to get us through the buoyed channel and in order to come in open water.
We first set our Genua but when that wasn't giving enough power, we also set our mainsail. When we had to turn North we regretted that we had set mainsail because it now took the wind away from the Genua.
The current was in Northerly direction for the first 6 hours so we maintained a good speed over the ground of 7,0 miles.
The passing of the Maasgeul, the entrance of Rotterdam harbour went smooth too and at 05:30 we arrived at IJmuiden with a wind that had increased to 7 Bf.= 28 – 30 knots and waves of 1,5 meter.
This were the ideal circumstances for Sam for kiting on the beach of IJmuiden.
For him the sailing for the day wasn't over: he wanted to do another kind of sailing also.
At 10:00 in the evening he came back, fully exhausted by the waves of the open sea at IJmuiden.
Oscar had prepared an excellent spaghetti bolognese for that evening and Sam just attacked that meal as he was starving.
A very nice day with 71,5 miles on the log.
We will keep you updated.
Cees, Sam and Oscar.
The barometer had dropped overnight from 1022 h Pa to 1015 h Pa.
This meant that a low pressure cyclone had come our way and that we could expect strong wind.
Nevertheless we left Roompot outside shelter harbour for IJmuiden at 05:00 AM.
The first part with help of the motor to get us through the buoyed channel and in order to come in open water.
We first set our Genua but when that wasn't giving enough power, we also set our mainsail. When we had to turn North we regretted that we had set mainsail because it now took the wind away from the Genua.
The current was in Northerly direction for the first 6 hours so we maintained a good speed over the ground of 7,0 miles.
The passing of the Maasgeul, the entrance of Rotterdam harbour went smooth too and at 05:30 we arrived at IJmuiden with a wind that had increased to 7 Bf.= 28 – 30 knots and waves of 1,5 meter.
This were the ideal circumstances for Sam for kiting on the beach of IJmuiden.
For him the sailing for the day wasn't over: he wanted to do another kind of sailing also.
At 10:00 in the evening he came back, fully exhausted by the waves of the open sea at IJmuiden.
Oscar had prepared an excellent spaghetti bolognese for that evening and Sam just attacked that meal as he was starving.
A very nice day with 71,5 miles on the log.
We will keep you updated.
Cees, Sam and Oscar.
dinsdag 5 juli 2011
July 5, 2011 From Zeebrugge to Roompot (NL)
Yesterday evening when we entered the Marina of Zeebrugge, we saw that the local yacht club was having a party. We were however too eager to find us something to eat, that we didn't bothered to disturb the party with our presence.
However, one of the guests had seen us enter the harbour and came to us to compliment us with this boat. He called our boat a pearl under the yachts.
Unfortunately, he didn't made me an offer for the ship that I couldn't have refused, so we were still obliged to continue our trip.
We started today rather late as we had to do some shoppings and waited for the harbour master to pay our duties.
So we left the Zeebrugge harbour at 09:45.
Hardly any wind and visibility. On motor and with the help of our radar and AIS screen we could safely cross the shipping lane to Antwerp.
We crossed the Dutch boarder at 12:40 CET.
During the day the wind increased till 15 knots, but the heading wasn't favorable for us: N.E.
That meant that the target (Hellevoetssluis) could not be reached and we landed in the Roompot and stayed outside the lock.
Thefore we can have an early start tomorrow and benefit from the North going current for six hours.
Sam isn't entousiast about it, but we simply don't care.
The target for tomorrow is IJmuiden, outside Marina.
However, one of the guests had seen us enter the harbour and came to us to compliment us with this boat. He called our boat a pearl under the yachts.
Unfortunately, he didn't made me an offer for the ship that I couldn't have refused, so we were still obliged to continue our trip.
We started today rather late as we had to do some shoppings and waited for the harbour master to pay our duties.
So we left the Zeebrugge harbour at 09:45.
Hardly any wind and visibility. On motor and with the help of our radar and AIS screen we could safely cross the shipping lane to Antwerp.
We crossed the Dutch boarder at 12:40 CET.
During the day the wind increased till 15 knots, but the heading wasn't favorable for us: N.E.
That meant that the target (Hellevoetssluis) could not be reached and we landed in the Roompot and stayed outside the lock.
Thefore we can have an early start tomorrow and benefit from the North going current for six hours.
Sam isn't entousiast about it, but we simply don't care.
The target for tomorrow is IJmuiden, outside Marina.
July 4. To Zeebrugge from Dunkerque.
July 4, 2011: Dunkerque - Breskens.
It was 06:30 AM when Sam went to buy French Bagettes and Croissants at the local bakery.
After our breakfast we started our trip out of France in the direction of Belgium.
The wind was as forecasted just 4 knots headwind, so we had to use the motor.
At 11:30 the wind had increased to 9 - 10 knots and at Oostduinen (B), South of Nieuwpoort, we set sails.
The course was changed to North-West and we sailed with 4,5 knots against the current.
Our goal for today is Zeebrugge (B) or even Breskens (NL).
After 17:00 CET we headed for Blankenberge as we liked that city better then Zeebrugge, but we received no information about the depth of the waterway.
Therefore we changed course to Zeebrugge, where we arrived at 19:00.
We didn't managed to get Proximus internet working, so publishing our blog will have to wait till tomorrow.
Then we will be back in Holland and there our internet should work.
We will keep you updated.
Cees, Sam and Oscar.
It was 06:30 AM when Sam went to buy French Bagettes and Croissants at the local bakery.
After our breakfast we started our trip out of France in the direction of Belgium.
The wind was as forecasted just 4 knots headwind, so we had to use the motor.
At 11:30 the wind had increased to 9 - 10 knots and at Oostduinen (B), South of Nieuwpoort, we set sails.
The course was changed to North-West and we sailed with 4,5 knots against the current.
Our goal for today is Zeebrugge (B) or even Breskens (NL).
After 17:00 CET we headed for Blankenberge as we liked that city better then Zeebrugge, but we received no information about the depth of the waterway.
Therefore we changed course to Zeebrugge, where we arrived at 19:00.
We didn't managed to get Proximus internet working, so publishing our blog will have to wait till tomorrow.
Then we will be back in Holland and there our internet should work.
We will keep you updated.
Cees, Sam and Oscar.
July 3: Back to the Continent.
July 3, 2011: Dover - Dunkerque.
A short blog today as most of the day we had to use the motor, due to lack of wind.
We started from Dover at 10:15. Tried to sail to the Shipping lanes with the Spinnaker.
That went well.
In the shipping lanes we had mainsail and Genua, but the wind disappeared totally.
The last part of the day, we used the motor.
Dunkerque is known to us and described before.
Tomorrow we will sail to Zeebrugge, Belgium, but the forecast gives us headwind.
We will keep you updated.
Cees, Sam and Oscar.
A short blog today as most of the day we had to use the motor, due to lack of wind.
We started from Dover at 10:15. Tried to sail to the Shipping lanes with the Spinnaker.
That went well.
In the shipping lanes we had mainsail and Genua, but the wind disappeared totally.
The last part of the day, we used the motor.
Dunkerque is known to us and described before.
Tomorrow we will sail to Zeebrugge, Belgium, but the forecast gives us headwind.
We will keep you updated.
Cees, Sam and Oscar.
zondag 3 juli 2011
July 2, 2011: Eastbourne - Dover.
The destination for today is Dover, a trip of 45 miles.
Again the weather is beautiful when we leave the Sovereign Harbour of Eastbourne. The passing of the lock went very quick. As we left with low tide, the channel from the lock to the sea was a challenge as on many places the depth meter indicated 0,0...! This means we have no water under the keel, but we didn't got stuck.
Once at sea the wind was 10 knots and at 09:00 we set our half-winder sail.
As we have no pictures from the ship under the half-winder, we asked Sam again to make a reportage of the Boekanier from the dinghy.
Sam was more then happy to do it and the result of this expedition can be seen in the picture show at the bottom of the blog-page.
The half-winder has bright red and blue colours so you can't miss it.
Later that day the wind disappeared and we had to motor the last part to Dover.
We arrived in Dover at 19:00 CET.
Sam cooked our meal: rice with stew and tomato sauce
We had decided to drink our steigerborrel ashore and after dinner we went into town, close to the beach.
We suddenly saw a nice bar, but it was the bar of some kind of club.
It turned out to be the Royal Cinque Ports Yacht Club. We, as fellow yachtsmen, invited ourselves to this club and once inside this very old and traditional establishment (founded in 1872, it is the fifth oldest yacht club in England), we were very cordially received by the chairman. He asked us to write all our ship details in the guest-book and then he told us: Make yourself feel at home and the bar will be your oyster for the evening. We didn't needed any more encouragements and attacked the bar and the beer pumps.
It turned out that the Club had that evening their annual BBQ and so we were also invited to join that event. (Yes, we had a double meal that evening..)
We had a very nice evening, talking to all these fellow yachtsmen who had great interest in our journey. Also they told us that there would b a nice fireworks later that evening and that that was the reason for all the crowd on the beach.
At 11:00 o'clock we left the club after having thanked out hosts for their great hospitality.
We watched the fireworks from the deck of our ship and were very grateful to the community of Dover to offer this nice welcome.
Tomorrow we will leave England and cross the Channel for France again.
We will keep you updated
Cees, Sam and Oscar.
Again the weather is beautiful when we leave the Sovereign Harbour of Eastbourne. The passing of the lock went very quick. As we left with low tide, the channel from the lock to the sea was a challenge as on many places the depth meter indicated 0,0...! This means we have no water under the keel, but we didn't got stuck.
Once at sea the wind was 10 knots and at 09:00 we set our half-winder sail.
As we have no pictures from the ship under the half-winder, we asked Sam again to make a reportage of the Boekanier from the dinghy.
Sam was more then happy to do it and the result of this expedition can be seen in the picture show at the bottom of the blog-page.
The half-winder has bright red and blue colours so you can't miss it.
Later that day the wind disappeared and we had to motor the last part to Dover.
We arrived in Dover at 19:00 CET.
Sam cooked our meal: rice with stew and tomato sauce
We had decided to drink our steigerborrel ashore and after dinner we went into town, close to the beach.
We suddenly saw a nice bar, but it was the bar of some kind of club.
It turned out to be the Royal Cinque Ports Yacht Club. We, as fellow yachtsmen, invited ourselves to this club and once inside this very old and traditional establishment (founded in 1872, it is the fifth oldest yacht club in England), we were very cordially received by the chairman. He asked us to write all our ship details in the guest-book and then he told us: Make yourself feel at home and the bar will be your oyster for the evening. We didn't needed any more encouragements and attacked the bar and the beer pumps.
It turned out that the Club had that evening their annual BBQ and so we were also invited to join that event. (Yes, we had a double meal that evening..)
We had a very nice evening, talking to all these fellow yachtsmen who had great interest in our journey. Also they told us that there would b a nice fireworks later that evening and that that was the reason for all the crowd on the beach.
At 11:00 o'clock we left the club after having thanked out hosts for their great hospitality.
We watched the fireworks from the deck of our ship and were very grateful to the community of Dover to offer this nice welcome.
Tomorrow we will leave England and cross the Channel for France again.
We will keep you updated
Cees, Sam and Oscar.
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