This time we decided to sail her back home via the North Sea and not the “staande mast route”. We chose probably the worse year to do that ahha hahh 😉 Lot of sun, but wrong wind! We left when the wind was strong N-NW for 4 weeks in a raw! We decided to sail …
Spring 2023 starts as a “predictor” for the rest of the coming months…cold and windy! The day she had to be put back in the water with the crane wind gusts were strong but we managed (with Mariteam Shipyard) to install also the mast. That was on the 20th of April, I seem to remember. …
After the holidays we enjoyed some relaxed time at her home harbor close to Leiden until mid October when we brought our Elsa to Sint Annaland where she was taken out of the water to stay inside a big hall for the winter. Although we miss her a lot this way, we prefer not to …
I am really not good with blogging. So the summary of our first holiday with Elsa comes 1 year later 😉 – while we are on our 2nd holiday with her, waiting for a train of depressions to pass by in Normandy. Back to 2022, the summer in The Netherlands has been exceptionally good (that’s …
In the beginning of June 2022 we brought Elsa home, or better say “back” home because we brought her back to her previous home harbor 🙂 In fact we not only live close to Elsa’s previous owners (Willem and Els), but they are also the parents of our neighbor. This was just a funny coincidence. …
We bought Elsa in 2022. At the end of April she went in the water in Sint Annaland for the survey. A few days after we rigged the main sail with the help of the previous owner, Willem. Everything is now finally ready to bring Elsa home 🙂