Harry Heijst
Looking back
The entire crew is home, that is to say except for me and Boj (in France). Winsome is nicely moored at Port Chantereyne in Cherbourg. Batteries being charged whilst typing this blog at the marina restaurant L’EQUIPAGE. The winter home for Winsome this time Will be in Caen. In October we will still have to […]
Post by Harry Heijst | August 18, 2021 | Comments Off on Looking back | Comments RSS
The second news over a relatively difficult time on board
Well our mechanically gifted Leen and Richard succeeded to install a too large distribution belt on the engine by changing the position of the alternator. Unbelievable what they achieved in only on hour! So we could continue to use electricity and in particular our navigation lights in the following night, Monday. Another problem occurred and […]
Post by Harry Heijst | August 12, 2021 | 9 Comments | Comments RSS
Peter Morton came to say good-bye to us for a race he had planned to Crew.
Though we had promised other each other to make a conservatieve start, were less than two metres from the start line. Look how we can observe ánd control our own start. On the other hand we kept our promise to start with G-4. That was no luxury with 30 knots of wind. We came out […]
Post by Harry Heijst | August 9, 2021 | 2 Comments | Comments RSS
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