02 May In 24 hours switching skyline from the coast of Cuba to Florida
Update by Ute:
“When sailing towards the coast of Cuba we easily could navigate on the lights of Havana which from a 30 miles’ distance were visible at the horizon. ...
May 2016
28 Apr King's Day in the Gulf
It never ceases to amaze me how incredibly popular the royal family and the monarchy is amongst the Dutch and not only in the Netherlands. As a staunch believer in ...
28 Apr King's Day
The crew and trainees celebrated King's Day yesterday too with some old Dutch games like 'koekhappen', 'spijkerpoepen' and 'blikgooien', pretty challenging on a moving ...
27 Apr What a thrill
Update by Samuel Levine:
“Sailing on the 'Oosterschelde' is like a dream. She is both beautiful and comfortable but it is the crew, both professional and guest that ...
25 Apr On our way to Rotterdam
The pilot steps on board with a giant cardboard mug with coffee.H owdy all. It is 09:30 hrs. in the morning. We are all ready to go so we shake hands with the people from ...
20 Apr Texas Seaport Museum
For the past few days we have been at the Texas Seaport Museum in Galveston. This the homeport of the ...
16 Apr Almost at Galveston
We are almost at the United States. The water has become more shallow and the deep blue color has disappeared. It has the same color as the well known greenish color of ...
15 Apr Block-change-program
Well we won’t trust the forecast anymore! We were sailing nicely when I sent the last message and not even half an hour later the wind disappeared. And stayed away for 18 ...
