winny’s blog

The celebration of the tenth aniversery of our Entrepot building has started.
Yesterday there were two chanty choirs. They sing songs of the sea, ish…. Luckely they had made some arrangements amongst the two of them, so they did not sang at the same time. But I must admit, it was realy cool. Al these choir members were having such a good time.
The public too but there was hardly any. We hope next time, that is next thursday, there will be more.

They told me there is a place vaccant for an accordion player, a female one. So if you are interested, just let me know.

Theo is on holliday. But you know how he is, gadgets all over.

This is the trip they made today. In the mountains of Grand Canaria.

I made some videos of course while traveling. With the photocamera, so don’t expect much quality. but for now I’m only trying to get it on the internet.

so let’s see if this one will work.

Voetjesbrug

The Watermeid is back home. I wrote in june about taking her to Barendrecht for varnishing. Last monday we brought her back in.
It is good to have her back!
And this time with a perfectly fitting cover. Sheds from the rain and polution but it is a pitty that you can’t see the beauty of here anymore.

The dashboard is new also. Looking very good too.

This weekend were the formula 1 cars racing in the streets of the city of Rotterdam.
I could hear them very loud at home.
People did everything to see them going

It appears to be that it was a very wise decision to sail away from Jolly Harbour, to a save place.
Tropical strom Dean is becomming a hurricane and is on its way to Antigua. You don’t want to be there when it hits ground. We phoned to friends over there, but they are not verry worried although people are taking precausions.

It looks like it is passing Curacao and the Grote Meid is save where it is.

Last Thursday afternoon I was back home. For the next months Curacao will be a safe haven for de Grote Meid. Panama was to far without the mainsail working and aspecially going back from Panama is not a pleasant sailingtrip so Paul decided to stay in Curacao.

Here is a GoogleEarth picture with parts of the route we did sail. I managed to get my GPS working at the end. Look at the yellow line.

Of course we started at Antigua but I lost those data. So the line is not complete.

A coule of days ago we arrived at Curacao, beautifull island and mostly Dutch spoken. Which is very easy of course.
Paul lived here for a couple of years and knows it very well. So he showed me some nice spots on the island.

The rough North side for example.

And of course Willemstad with the sailing bridge.

and I did dive just from off the beach. this is a picture of the diving school

It all sounds good, doesn’t it? And it is!

Yesterday we went from StVincent to the Tobego Cays. Very beautifull spot in the reef. From there to Union Island in the end of the afternoon. Just a nice hour or two sailing. We will be up and running to Granada or directly to Isla Margarita.

But first see if the motor of the ankor can be made. It was stuck when we want to leave StVincent and it took Paul and Bequia some 5 hours to repair it. It worked again but not as new. And in the bay of UnionIsland it broke again. But of course, this time too, it was made and we are now in Granada, after a very nice day of sailing.

We arrived yesterday in Bequia, a small island south of St Vincent.

When we cleared out at St Lucia there whas a young German guy, asking if he could come with us to St Vincent. The only other way to get off the island was flying and he had done that before, in a very scary small airplane. Didn’t want to do that again. So we examined his bagpack and took him on board. The idea was to get him off the crewlist in StVincent, a good day sail. But St Vincent was not a very friendly island and it did not work out there. So we took him another night on board and went to Bequia. There we finally managed to get him off the crewlist this morning.

The islands we saw from the sea looked gorgious.We even saw dolphins a couple of times.