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Tomidi
The Tomidi , een 57.5 Whitbread Round The Worldracer, de ex Rucanor van schipper Staf Versluys, die er in 1985/1986 de wereld mee rond zeilde, nu eigendom van schipper Dirk Guns...
May 01, 2009: Op 6 july maakte ik samen met Luc onze eerste trip met de Tomidi van Oostende naar Calais en weer teug » read more
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Fastnet Race 2005
Fastnet Race Trip Oostende- Gosport - Cowes - Fastnet Rock - Plymouth - Cowes - Oostende met de Tomidi Bel 763 van Schipper Dirk Gunst. De Rolex Fastnet Race wordt om de 2 ja...
August 07, 2009: Vandaag kwamen we weer terug in Oostende onze thuishaven van de Tomidi. » read more
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River Orwell Trip 2004
Zeebrugge - Harwich
May 01, 2009: In de vroege ochtend arriveerden we in de Woolverstone Marina aan de River Orwell in Ipswich.We bezochten natuurlijk de wereldvermaarde Zeilerspub "Butt & Oyster "in Pin Mill.Elke zeezeiler moet hier eenmaal in zijn leven geweest zijn, (Archie White in de ’Tideways en Byways")Ieder jaar is er vanuit de Woolverstone Marina een race naar Scheveninge: de North Sea Ra... » read more
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Normandie Trip 2004
Een trip Oostende - Dover - Brighton- Fecam - Ouisterham - Honfleur - Le Havre op de Mambo van Channel Sailing Oostende
May 01, 2009: We vertrokken vanmorgen vroeg uit Brihton voor een oversteek naar Normandie, ,doordat de wind wegviel verlegden we de koers naaar Fecam » read more
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From UK to Greece
Started with a 31ft sailing boat from dover ,with destination greece. at present in mallorca.Propably we are two of the few (maybe the only ?) greeks who live on a cruising boa...
September 28, 2009: first passage and all ok ,norman assisted » read more
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Suffolk - Oosterschelde Trip 2004
Ipswitch - Roompot - Oosterschelde - Veerse Meer - Kanaal door Walcheren -Westerschelde - Zeebrugge
May 01, 2009: We vertrekken weer naar onze thuishaven in Zeebrugge met de Fastlane door de sluis bij Vlissingen de Westerschelde over langs de Kust » read more
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Baltic 2009
Left UK on 16 May for the Baltic. Arrived Kiel, 19 May. Changed crews to take on 'Hardy Annuals' 23 May for a week prior to Carol joining for a few days. Left boat in Kiel, 3 ...
July 17, 2009: It didn’t look like an auspicious start, as we sat in the marina at Levington on the 15th May, checking weather forecasts and listening to the wind whistling in the rigging. However, we got up at 4 am to take advantage of the tide, to find a moderate Southwesterly wind and a clear sky – so off we went. This was the start of a scorching run/ broad reach up to level with Lowestoft, wh... » read more
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The passage from Stability to being a Yacht owner......
Rather like Odysseus sailing from Troy to Ithaca, a totally random set of events involving pain, fear, delays and eventual triumph.
August 20, 2009: Apolgies to our readers for the lengthy break in our saga. Your e mails of concern for our welfare touched us deeply. Worry not, gentle reader, we are alive, dry and amazingly still afloat. Just to re-cap. A couple, of advanced years, with absolutely no sailing experience apart from two or three episodes of Hornblower and a quick look round the Cutty Sark go for a trip round the bay on an old O... » read more
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De Ruyter Sail Vlissingen 2007
de Ruyter Sail Vlissingen Westerschelde
May 01, 2009: Vandaag voer ik met Jacq en Luc naar de Parade of Sail op de Rede van Vlissingen van de Ruyter Sail een prachtig schouwspel van Tall Ships » read more
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East (coast) to West (country)
This year we've decided to take time out and explore the south and west coasts of southern England (and Wales with any luck)and back again. Leaving Burnham on Crouch beginnin...
May 01, 2009: We’d completed over 1300 nm. The wind was on the nose around 75% of the time we were on the way.We were weather bound at least 60% of the time.Highlights / memorable moments in no particular order:Isles of Scilly – each island, arriving in pitch black night, leaving in fog, and being swamped in the dinghy (St Agnes).The dolphins on the way to Milford Haven.Skomer Island.Making... » read more
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