You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave

After settling in on our boat, we slowly started to understand the task ahead of us.

Getting major upgrades done in this southern part of France turns out to be difficult. The mood's relaxed and when you're not around, not much happens...

What a day! What a week! What a month!

One's never really prepared to say goodbye to these amounts of loving and caring people. We're completely overwhelmed by all the involvement from our friends, family and acquaintances. Thank you all for making our farewell weekender a thing to never forget. T...

ALL AROUND YOU BLUE. BLUE SKY, BLUE WATER AND A MAJOR EMERGENCY HAPPENING ON YOUR VESSEL. WHAT DO YOU DO?

Well, we start with taking vitals and ignore any spectacular looking incidents. That is what Dr. Sijbers and his colleague explained us during a very intense full day training. The night befor...

After returning to the Netherlands and finishing the paperwork we're back in France working day and night to finish all kinds of maintenance our boat desperately needs.

We were just in time for the boat show in Cap D’Agde. Life was good, sun was shining and our boat looked good. We started plannin...

After a tumultuous search for an Amel sailboat we finally got in the position to wire a deposit and make arrangements to survey a very good prospect sailboat.

She's a 1993 Amel Santorin, ketch rigged monohull. Today we went aboard "Elysis" for an inspection of the hull at the shipyard and a aftern...

After dozens of years sailing chartered boats we decided the time is right to care for our own sailboat.

With our daughter turning one this year, the clock is ticking louder and louder. If we want to realise our dream of sailing for longer periods we know very well we need to make some hefty decis...