October 2014

The past few days it was -for the first time in a long time- a bit wet. Heavy clouds hung above us, it was humid and at night there were heavy showers.
But today the...

The last voyage was very much fun and because of the nice weather very pleasant for everyone. It was hard to say goodbye to everyone, but after a nice lunch in Puerto ...

The 'Oosterschelde' has left Puerto de Sóller at 15:30, to sail to Benicarló on the Spanish mainland. Here she will be undergoing maintenance at the dockyard for a number ...

We left Cabrera under sail. The wind was weak at first, but later that morning it increased up to 4 Bft and under full sail we sailed into the bay of Palma. At the end of ...

The storm did not reach Mallorca. In the Gulf of Lyon there was 50 knots of wind, on Menorca 8 à 9 Bft, but we only had 30 knots, 7 Bft. We used our time to visit the old ...

Weather predictions became a bit worse. Mallorca's south coast has a gale warning now as well, with a predicted wave height of 3 to 4 meters.
We thought it would be ...

After another sunny (and hot) day yesterday, we dropped anchor at Isla de Formentor, near the cape with the same name. There is still little wind, but for the coming night...

We visited some great bays of Mallorca. Last night we visited the Cala de Sa Calobra, where we used our recently reconditioned wooden boat.
Early this morning we left...

The harbour of Soller is situated beautifully in a small natural bay at the northern side of the island Mallorca. Directly after departure we set the sails and with a ...