Happy New Year!

January 1, 2012

All the best for 2012. We hope it will bring us good health, favourable winds, sunshine, and many podium finishes.
The concept race agenda is now on the site. For further inquiries and questions please contact Boj. He will sort all our wishes and make the definitive planning.  

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WINSOME 2012

December 29, 2011

This year Winsome will celebrate her 40th birthday. Now it is not the kind of thing you do, to ask a lady her age, but some things in life can not pass unnoticed. It is quite an achievement for a lady of this age, not only to compete at inshores and offshores at a regular […]

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Last legs Lisboa-Cherbourg-Budel

December 20, 2011

Lisboa

Our two stowaways scrolling through Lisbon

direction France…

bye bye Portugal

hello France (Normandie)

On both trips some God wanted to show us that it is already winter in Europe. Bad weather, icing, outside temperature at FL260 minus 43 degrees Celcius. We could not even have used our boots at these temperatures (one of my forgotten ground school lessons, […]

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Jumping from 1. Praia, Cabo Verde, to Laáyoune (El Aáiun), Maroc 2. Laáyoune to Marrakesh 3. Marrakesh to Lisboa

December 16, 2011

The trip will come very soon to an end.
Last week I realized that the world keeps turning. Happy and unhappy events interchanged: my grandson Theun appeared on Dutch TV in the Junior Master Cook Competition, my friend/Master of the Zebráky Hounds had a very bad accident with his horse and is now in coma in […]

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Second jump over the Atlantic

December 12, 2011

bye bye Natal…

One month after we made our first Atlantic crossing, Praia-Natal, we made our return crossing Natal-Praia. The first time, Praia-Natal, we had to fight 8 knots of headwind and the rotating of the earth from East to West. This time we had two advantages i.e. 5 knots of tailwind and a positive rotating […]

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Closing the South American loop of about 10K Nm arriving the 2nd time in Natal, Brasil

December 11, 2011

bye bye Belem

We closed the loop with a fairly easy trip from Belem to Natal. After our very nice but exhausting visit in hot and humid Belem we could use a break and we got it.
At the end of the extremely nice reception and touring around by Expedito Menezes, we were “robbed” by the handling […]

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From one small village in Brasil to another one

December 9, 2011

We left Manaus for a three hours flight to Belem. What we did not know, is that we again would arrive in a 2M city, like Manaus.
The flight went without any problems. In spite of hazy weather, no thunderstorms. Under us jungle, jungle and jungle with many many arms of the all mighty Amazone River.
Coming […]

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From Peru back to Brasil, the second time in Brasil on this trip

December 7, 2011

On the 4th of December, we departed from Iquitos to Manaus, a flight of 03:30. This was exactly the day my oldest grandson, Theun, would appear on Dutch TV in a competition for Junior Master Chief Cook. Unfortunately all my efforts to look at an iPod or YouTube movie of his performance failed sofar [maar […]

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Taking off at 10.860′ in Cuzco, Peru. Landing at 306′ in Iquitos, Peru

December 5, 2011

before DEP in Cuzco

bye bye Cuzco

…hello Iquitos

PC12 and Fokker F27

Our perfectly prepared, calculated and thoroughly discussed take-off at Cuzco, went alright. In spite of the very slow slope we used to get away at this altitude, we always stayed on the edge of not having a shaker warning. As a result of the high temperature […]

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Cuzco and Machu Picchu. Photo’s will do the talking this time.

December 3, 2011

Cuzco

MACHU PICCHU

special guest…

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