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Zelfde Schip , Nieuwe crew.

Nieuwe crew is begin July aan nieuwe avonturen begonnen.
Uit respect voor schip en vorige eigenaar werd de naam Hartendief graag overgenomen.
Het roze hartje werd vervangen door een lichtblauwe hart en met de nieuwe naamsticker zijn
we van op afstand makkelijk te herkennen. Naam op de romp staat lekker stoer.

Eerste taak was het schip te leren kennen. Wisselende weersomstandigheden hebben ons geleerd dat
er op Hartendief vooral genoten kan worden.
Eerste tocht was van Makkum naar Wemeldinge wat de nieuwe thuishaven wordt.
Half Augustus hebben we een eerste vakantie in Zeeland en de Belgische kust kunnen afwerken.
Een eerste stap richting iets verdere bestemmingen is gezet.
Dit najaar gaan we proberen nog regelmatig te varen alvorens de winter/klusjes periode aan te vatten.

Laatste keer...

Vandaag Harlinen - Hindelopen - Makkum gevaren. Voor het eerst met de nieuwe Genua. Een perfect zeil. Bij 3-4-5bf liepen we hoger en harder dan alles om ons heen. Heerlijk! Komende zaterdag is de expertise van de nieuwe koper. Daarna misschien nog een paar weekends, maar dan is het avontuur echt helemaal voorbij. Ondertussen over platbodems aan het lezen. Ook wel heel leuk...

Laatste keer:

Verkocht...!

Vandaag principe overeenkomst en handen geschud over de verkoop van Hartendief aan een leuke Antwerpse familie voor wie de boot geknipt lijkt. We hadden een prachtige 'demo' zeilsessie voor Harlingen. Ze houden de naam waarschijnlijk. Leuk te zien dat Hartendief terug gaat naar Zeeland (ze was daar ook in seizoen 2003 en begin 2010). De komende week gaan we de deal helemaal rondmaken en aan het afscheid gaan wennen. Niet leuk, maar leuke kopers helpt wel!

Overigens nog fantastisch gezeild in de Harlingen Terschellingrace. Uitslag was niet brilliant (2x 9e van de 18oid), maar heerlijke tocht en met Joost, Alex en Matthew hebben we lekker en goed gezeild. Zowel maandag als dinsdag grote lange spinaker rakken waren een genot. Volgend jaar met de Zwarte Zwaan...!

Hartendief van 2001 tot 2011

2001: Opgelevering (oktober) en 'shake-down cruise' IJmuiden;
2002: Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Maarten, Anguilla, Newport;
2003 Narraganset Bay, Newport, Cape, Martha's Vineyard;
2004: Lynnfjord, Kattegat, Denemarken, NOK, Helgoland;
2005: Winnaar 24-uursrace IJsselmeer;
2006-2007: Wismar, Heiligenhafen, Malmö en Denemarken;
2008: Enkhuizen, winnaar eindejaarsrace Victoire Club;
2009: Round Britain
2010 Falmouth, Boulonge-sur-Mer, Muiden;
2011: Harlingen-Terschelling-race,...

terugreis

Back Home...!

Back in the Netherlands. After 2000Nm we reached Breskens in Zeeland around 20.00 on Friday 4 june. The adventure is over, but we had a very nice run this week. We started off from Falmounth around 11.00 on Tuesday and made a 48 hour dash for Boulogne in France where we had a good dinner and rested until we caught the north going tide in the Dover Straight very early (03.00) on Friday morning. In the evening we reached Breskens where Charles collected us for a dinner and tour of the Verheije holliday mansion - a super cute cottage in a sleepy village on the Zeeland country side. This trip excelled in sunrises, sunsets, dinners at sea and mild winds with some motoring.

Again a great many thanks to all who participated...!

The Route

Team 4!

Thank you guys & girls!

Looking back at a fantastic adventure with much wildlife (seal, otter, bottle nose dolphin, common dolphin, porpoise, puffin, shear-water, gannet, razorbills, etc), top scenery (e.g. fluorescent sea off IJmuiden, Dunnottar Castle, kyle of Tongue, Suilvan mountain, loch Nevis, Sky, Mull, the Mull on Kintyre, east Dunmore, Falmouth bay, moonlit night in Fastnet), tough sailing, smooth sailing, poker nights, too many drinks, town excursions, crab dinner, uno nights, calm nights at anchor, wild nights in squalls and many many fun dinners. Thank you all!

This 'production' was made possible, and much fun, thanks to the efforts made and logistic nightmares endured by: Charles, Frits, Jan-Willem, Joost, Matthew, Pieter, Scott, Rene and Robert. Thank you for coming along, for helping to keep the boat in top condition (NOTHING broke!!) and for taking on all challenges (the weather, your skipper..) in good humored way.

Pretty much the same great many thanks to the ladies: Ann, Hettie, Julia and Sophie. Plus special ladies-thanks for coming along on the ride, upping culinary standards, spotting wildlife and being excellent co-skippers, jetty-expedition helms-woman, navigators and 2nd co-captains.

And now back to work....

p.s. Anybody in for a south-coast dessert in May or June next year? :)

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Uitgekleed!

The adventure is over or parked for the winter. We cleaned the sails and equipment, got all the salt off the boat, dried everything and had a brief spell enjoying Falmouth.
Falmouth is nice, lifely with a real boating scene: sailclubs, fancy restaurants and all. They also have a big maritime museum here. It is as different from the gritty Scottish and Irish scene (excl. Dublin) as you can have it. The bay is very pretty with about 5 rivers running into it and many boats moored.
We hauled Hartendief out of the water yesterday and crew 4 (Rene, Pieter and Matthew) took the taxi this morning at 4 (!). We slept on the boat while when it was already parked on the hard which invoked a scene described by Pieter about Russian sailors stuck on their ship in midwinter Petersburg unable to sail.. It is surely more classy to sleep on a boat when it is in the water :)
The marina here is fantastic with shops, all facilities thinkable. A good place for the winter.
Next year we hope to use Falmouth as starting point for our family vacation and than have a last leg of our round Britain adventure for a last crew to take here back with me. From Falmouth to the Netherlands is about 350 miles of coastal sailing and that should be a wizz compared to the tough bits we went through.

Falmouth

We sailed 185M in 28 hours!! Rene and Matthew tuned Hartendief into a
thorougbred, somewhat overpowered :), wave surfing race horse and
broke the speed record with a new record of 9.7kn. Tough seas and many
showers kept us on our toes and generally slightly cold and miserable.
Highpoints were Dolphins (5+), an increible moonlid night with a
moon-rain-bow, stars and surfing the waves. Max wind reached 35 knots
only once with most (gusty, squally) wind between 20 and 30 knots
(5-7bf).
The sun is coming out and will hopefully allow us to desalify and dry
ourselfs and the boat.

Dunmore East

Supercute village at the entrance of the river Suire (south ireland)

Definitely worth spending a summer holiday. Beautiful beaches, palm
trees en lovely thatched houses.

Now It is a stormy and rainy day and we are waiting for a 'hole in the
weather' as we call it. already waiting for days now...Tomorrow 4 O'
in the early morning we wil finally leave for south england. a 200
Miles and 40 hours on the ocean in stormy conditions and part of the
famous fastnet track.
Chears

Verstuurd vanafijn iPhone

Waterford waiting for burgers

Regrettably, we did not make the dash for Falmouth today. Weatherforecast includes possible 8bf winds and 7bf for sure - not from behind at all...
We deliberated for a couple of hours, but around 1800 we decided to let this 'weather window' pass. As a result we will be stuck until Thu morning for sure. Hopefully Thursday's winds will come through as forecasted as this point. If that is the case we will have 6bf right from the NW and should have an exiting ride.
This morning we had a marvelous swim in the hotel resort spa across from the marina. A bit of decadence won't hurt.

Waterford (Irish South coast)

We sailed 15M up the river Suir this morning and arrived in Waterford.
Looks like nice town with amazing golfcourse. The sail started very
smoothly yesterday pm. Dublin bay was full of racing boats, some sun,
3bf and totally smooth water. Pieter hoped the rest of the week is
going to be like that... Around dinnertime the wind tuned to SW. And
picked up to 5-6bf on the nose and we ended up motorsailing in rocky
seas. This lasted until early morning when the wind turned farther to
the south and we got an angle to sail to Waterford rather fast. In the
end we sailed about 100 miles in 20 hours - an excellent start-up
sail!
Matthew and Pieter have been adapting fast. Rene spotted Dolphins /
Poroises and Matthew nearly ran over a sleeping seal/sea-lion. It is
unclear who got the biggest scare.
We cleaned boat, gave the town a 'Chippendale shower show' and are now
ready for drinks!

Dublin

Yesterday we readied the boat for the next leg. Motor and battery check, filled up diesel, cleaned deck. Checked wiring motor panel and put extra chaff protection on the genua. Hartendief is still in top shape!
We had a great lunch with my Harvard AMP mate Enda Connellan, the CEO of the Dublin Harbour/Port company. Enda is also a serious sailor and very entertaining. He toured his empire with us: miles of docks, ferry, container and roro terminals. Impressive stuf.
Dublin has grown tremendeously over the last 15 years and has some very sleek and modern KNSM-Island like developments. After lunch we came back to the boat to finish our maintenance work and at night we enjoyed Dun Laoghaire, wich is a young, modern affluent bayside satelite town of Dublin - again with lots of new modern sleek bayside developments. The RIYC stands here overlooking a big, ultra modern marina (fingerprint access control!). The RIYC is just one of 4 yacht clubs here and there is a tremendeous racing fleet that dwarfs anything we have in the Netherlands. We had dinner at the club on Thursday, which turned out to be the last race day of the season and the place was full with nice enthusiastic racing crowd. One of the owners of "Attitude" explained how we should be able to make even Hartendief plane under spinnaker by dropping it off a wave; "If you haven't got green water up to the mast you haven't tried hard enough". We will try that some time.... :)

Joost and Charles just got on the 'Patton Flyer' bus to the airport. We had a great time guys!

Dun Laoghaire is in full preparation for its international cultural festival starting tonight, but crew 4 with Pieter, Rene and Matthew will be on the plane by now and the plan is to leave this afternoon to catch the south going tide to Waterford (100M). There is a slight chance that we will head for Falmouth in one go, but most likely is that we will overnight in Waterfort Sun-Mon to let a patch of strong S-winds pass and than set out for the 200M sail to England by mid afternoon on Monday. Winds look terrible after Wed morning, so if we do not escape before that time we will get stuck in (beautiful :)) Ireland. We won't take stupid risks though and 7bf backstay wind is the max we plan to encounter. Hopefully the weather forecasters are having a good week. The models have been flawless so far.

Dublin - Dun Laoghaire

Goodmorning all. Early in the morning we arrived at Dublin after 22
hours sailing. We were able to use the sailwindow to its best to get
here. It was a beautiful night, early very clear with an immense
amount of stars. Charles has seen a lot of falling stars, later on
more clouds arrived, but kept their raindrops for Scotland! We
escaped. Joost is a bit disappointed for seeing only 1 seal. We tried
to catch some mackerel, to the commodere Jos' amazement without
success. Today we will party and do some shopping in the city.
As far as we can oversea, the boat will stay here for the next 2 days.
The next crew will arrive in Dublin on Saturday, due to weather
conditions we didn't make it back to England.
Today we will update some photos.

Glenarm

Leaving Glenarm for the general Dublin. Making use of 24 hour weather
window between latest low and remnants huricane Bill.