I love sailing, just don’t do it too often, sadly. Anyway, my brother decided to rent a nice 30ft motor-sailer(a Hanse-315) for a week and go sailing. I joined.

We arrived on the boat  last friday, making things ready. Resulted in a bit of hassle with drving a lot since he forgot is wallet somewhere, but in the evening we we’re quite set.

On saturday my aunt, uncle and cousins arrived for the weekend and after brining their car to Makkum (their final destination), we sailed off. We didn’t depart too early since we had to wait for the wind to calm down. In the end we had about 5-6bft (20-21 knots or 37-38 km/h). Sailing to Den Oever we had the wind quite rough comming from our port side. We arrived arround 18:00 in Den Oever we’re we had dinner and an early bed.

Today (Sunday), we sailed fearly early from Den Oever to Makkum. We had a nice wind in our back  going at about 6 knots (10,8Km/h), with a windspeed of about 3-4bft (or 10-12 knots). We dropped our anker near breezanddijk at about 13:00 for lunch. I busied myself most of the time with practising some navigation, my brother keeping an eye on everything and making sure everybody did what needed to be done. My cousin Matthew spent most of his time at the helm, and the others a little less. Between the stops we had a lot of relaxing and enjoying the water & wind, it was quite a good day I think.

We arrived in the marina of Makkum arround 16:00 where we had tea and our guests left for home. My brother and I did some shopping and made ourselfs some dinner. After that the planning for tomorrow.

Tomorrow, we’re sailing to Terschelling (atleast that’s our current plan :). And on the Waddenzee we can’t sail everywhere all the time, so we needed to plan the tides. Currently we’re departing here arround 8.30 and hoping to have passed the ‘boontjes’ (the bit between Kornwerderzand and Harlingen) at arround 11.00. The Wind looks good, although a bit rough. I think it’ll be a nice day. :)