From holland The 30 odd mile trip north from Amsterdam to Eknhuizen certainly blew the city dust out of our hair . Beating into 25 knots is what Festina revels in , but her crew are getting soft in their old age and were fairly relieved to put the anchor down ( and the […]
http:// From Amsterdam in the rain It is somewhat ironic that the finest old merchants houses in the very centre of Amsterdam now overlook tourism at its tackiest – especially at 0800 when the streets are piled high with left over junk food from the night before. We were en route for the recently reopened […]
In these days of (relatively ) accurate weather forecasting , the art of sailing somewhere is to time the passage to when the winds are in your favour – and we seem to have got this fairly spot on so far this trip. Lo and behold , after 24 hours at anchor in the Walton […]
It’s summer ( or at its mid May so it ought to be) ; time to go a wandering. We had planned Mon 14th as our departure date , but much to our relief a nasty little low chose this time to come whizzing up the channel ; I had as ever underestimated the time […]