After visiting Mont Saint Michel, we were invited to stay at the home of Alain and Christine from the catamaran we had met in Borkum. They lived only about 20 minutes from Mont Saint Michel in a 13th century French…
Mont Saint-Michel
From the moment when our French friends showed me a picture of Mont Saint Michel I knew I wanted to go there. It looked so cool, like something I could only experience once. I constantly asked my parents if we…
Sailing Log – Guernsey to Roscoff, FR
Since our time in Borkum, sailing Verbena into Saint Malo – a walled in medieval Brittany coast city – became a mission. Friends suggested it and the city is close to Mont Saint Michel, also highly recommended. From Cherbourg, our…
The Channel Island of Guernsey
The first thing we saw when we laid eyes on Guernsey was a medieval looking castle which looked to have a mote around it, and as we turned the corner we saw the cute town of Port Saint Peter. The…
Cowes to Cherbourg
September 19, 2019 – Leaving Cowes we were torn. We were enjoying being around native English speakers and just getting enough boat maintenance and homework done to make time for some sightseeing. We needed another week in England to truely…
The English Channel and Cowes, Isle of Wight
We mostly motored with main up across the English Channel. There was a lot of freighter traffic. We also saw a swimmer swimming England to France across the Straits of Dover. Across the Channel, we then sailed along English coast.…
Dunkerque, France – the “spirit of Dunkirk”
We left Scheveningen in the Netherlands prior to dawn for the sail to Dunkerque, France. We started out motoring with the current, then began sailing on a nice reach in about 15 knots of wind as the sun came up.…
5 Ways We Know you’re Dutch – by Benny
Now if you thought that 5 ways you know you are Danish was good, get prepared for 5 Ways You Know You’re DUTCH! Now in Holland, aka the Netherlands, aka a place Dutch people live, I have found the select…
The Hague
From Amsterdam, we motored back to the locks at Ijmuiden for about an hour. We were directed to a different lock by VHF radio when we arrived. We mixed up the “middle” lock we were directed to go to, then…
36 Hours in Amsterdam
The minute I opened my eyes at Sixhaven marina in Amsterdam, there were a lot of things on my mind. I hurried up and got dressed and “gently” encouraged the rest of the family to do the same. We took…