Building and sailing the Journeyman 60
2006 – 2014
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As always on the channel, 3.5 knots of tide going one way and 24 knots of wind going the other way creates interesting seas. The first victim on this leg was my beloved tea thermos, bought in Estonia. It took…
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The fascinating color of the sea
Here’s a little question to my Oceansearch partners: How can we measure what causes the sea to look like it does? I have always been fascinated by the ever changing color of the sea. Just on this trip we have…
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Channel adventures. Of course!
We’ve left Scheveningen for Boulogne Sur Mer. Passing the English Channels is supposed to be adventurous… and so far it has been. Although not in the expected ways. It started with the approach to the Belgian coast north of Zeebruge.…
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Scheveningen
Today we took a walk on the Scheveningen beach front. A long walk. Because the Scheveningen beach front is pretty enormous. And on a sunny Sunday in October it is quite packed with people. It even has its own sort…
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Booooring…
We persisted in sailing until the speed dropped so low we couldn’t steer anymore. So now we are motoring. Again. The sun is shining but it’s hazy, visibility about 2 Nm. The sea is flat and empty all around. Absolutely…
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We can hear you…!
The sea today is so still we can easily hear what they say in the PA system on the Ameland Oost 2 gas platform 2 miles south of us. As we are fed up with motoring, we persist in sailing.…
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You’re in a fishing harbour. Use it!
We were kind of too lazy for cooking tonight, so we went looking for a restaurant around the harbour. But most were closed and the only open one looked very boring. Then we passed a fisherman loading his truck with…
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Looking for advice on marinas arount the Solent!
I’m trying to plan our UK South Coast Tour. We will probably go to Newhaven from The Netherlands, and then on to some place in the Solent. But there are sooo many marinas to choose from! So any input about…
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Lauwersoog yacht harbour: No yachts, lots of ropes…
So today we are in the Netherlands. We went into Lauwersoog, after some bounces off unexpected sand reefs off the coast. Fortunately I had foreseen this and positioned the keel about 25 cm down, so when we buried the bulb…
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Action on the North Sea. Not.
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