Tips, tricks and stories about living aboard and sailing around the world
Back in early September I had a small vacation while helping my parents sail their new boat to their new home. This type of boat is called a “Wadder” and it’s a pretty cool boat when you want a lot of space in a relatively small package with the ability to sail in very shallow waters. It’s specifically made to sail The Wadden Sea. Here are some of the photo’s that were taken back then.
For more information about these types of boats check out this website (in dutch):
http://www.wadder.nl
Way back in April/May I was lucky enough to once again join the crew aboard the Phoosticks. This week I finally had the time to gather and select the photo’s that were taken in that trip. So be sure to check them out below.
Like every year the destination was England but alas, the weather was not in our favour so we didn’t cross the English Channel. That certainly did not mean we didn’t have a great time tough. We altered our route to sail along the Belgium cost. Which turned out to be a very good idea, because that meant we had perfect sailing conditions (most of the time).
All in all, we had a lot of sun and great winds. Once again a very nice experience, check out the photo’s to see what I mean.
The Seadog got a new tarp for the upcoming winter season. It’s not exactly pretty, but it’s better then all the loose white tarp’s that were put together to make a semi weatherproof tent. Now there is a base layer of full waterproof tarp and on top of that a heavy (brown) tarp to make the entire tent more heavy, weather and wind resisted. This contraption did in fact survive several storms already. One of these storms actually peaked at 10 Beaufort and the tarp was perfectly intact. The whole boat (and the wooden frame) where shaking and making disturbing noises, but in the end all was well.
Every year around April friends of my parents go sailing from Holland to England. This year the destination was (among others) Dover and I was invited to join them. Of course I was more than happy to go with them, to gain some experience sailing the North Sea and crossing the notoriously busy English Channel. As one can see in the pictures below we had a mighty great time!
The weather might have been too cold to do any painting, but it still was beautiful sailing weather, so me and my dad went on a little sailing trip together with the boat of my parents. A lot of fun it was!
