After motoring into the wind out of Boston harbour with a respectable number of people waving and cheering, and us honking the horn in response, we could finally properly sail at the split into the...
Low pressure areas like to chase each other. They come one after another right across our track from Bermuda to Boston. Captain lets the first and the second one pass. After the second one there is enough wind to proceed with...
The joy of life is not always made up of great achievements.
Moonset, sunrise A silver ray of moon, golden flashes of sun: a single violin playing versus a brassband blowing. Selenes silver sliver sank leaving us with the feeble light of all the Milky Way. In...
Every few hours the temperature of the seawater is measured on Bark Europa. From the measurements we conclude that now we have arrived in the Gulfstream. The warmth of the tropics, for a not clarified reason, is transported to...
In 2017 Bermuda witnesses the madness called America’s Cup.
Komende week vaart het Nederlandse Tall Ship de bark EUROPA mee met de Tall Ships Race van Bermuda naar Boston, en Haagse Lotte Linthorst en Matthijs Boesten zeilen mee! Na zeven weken op zee hebben Lotte en Matthijs het goed...
Na het bezoek aan St. Helena zijn jullie in vijf dagen naar Ascension Island gevaren. Kunnen jullie deze 5 dagen beschrijven? Ik was heel blij eindelijk weer land gezien te hebben, dus was wat rustiger. Ook had ik toen...
1st of May 2017, day 18 at sea. We have been sailing through a moderate sea and enjoying of fairly good weather conditions. The only concerns of Klaas, the Master and Finley the 1st Mate are the distant showers in the horizon,...
Na het bezoek aan St. Helena zijn jullie in vijf dagen naar Ascension Island gevaren. Kunnen jullie deze 5 dagen beschrijven? Na St Helena zijn we door gevaren naar Ascension Island. deze oversteek duurde 5 dagen. voor...