Yesterday we left Enkhuizen at 0800. First showers, but later nice
and sunny. We caught a great tide to Den Helder and arrived at the
stortemelk at 1500. There we did 2 hours of practice turns to 'drill
the crew'. We were in good shape. Today we caught the tide out at
0400. Winds will be W to South max 6bf. Destination is was Lowestoft
for Monday, but we aborted the effort when hitting the shipping lane
at 0800 and concluding that winds had far too much west component in
them to render Lowestoft feasible. We turned back and arrived in Texel
after.a 9 hour sail.