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About 25 years ago the company Van Ommeren from Rotterdam became one of the main sponsors for the restoration of the 'Oosterschelde'. All these years we have been in close...

Cartagena is a beautiful city. It's everything you expect of a tropical town with a century old history of explores, trade and buccaneers. In the city enclosed by walls is...

After 421 nautical miles we arrived in Cartagena, Colombia, on Saturday evening at 7:30 pm local time...

We make a lot more progress than expected. The leg is not an easy one, with winds increasing to 40 knots, 8 to 9 Bft. The waves have grown a lot and sometimes they break over...

Maarten, Anna and Lisa have signed off. Gerben, Magnus and Tim have signed on. While we are at anchor for a few days we have time to do some maintenance. A time-consuming ...

If you go from the sheltered south coast with the beautiful beaches to the north coast you don’t see much tourisme anymore. The inland of Aruba is desert like with a barren...

Captain Maarten's update:
"After a beautiful Sail Out we sailed into the night. There was little wind so we went to slow with the wind in our back. We decided to luff...

Gerben Nab writes:
“One of the nice things about sailing is that you visit the most varied places. This time I relieve Maarten on Aruba. As crewmember you usually ...

We have arrived (13:55 GMT) in Oranjestad on the Dutch island of Aruba. We are moored in the Westhaven...

Because we where in the perfect position to sail out of Sint Anna Bay we decided to do so. For us fun to do and for our guest always special and of course a great sight ...