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HIDE AND SEEK

No I’m not playing hide and seek alone on board. Although it is a perfect spot. It’s our storage locker on port side. Normally you’ll see fenders, ropes and stuff like that in it, but not in Tuuli’s. I like to keep it dry, clean and organized.

We’ve got here the hydraulic pump with the operation system, adjusted with double relay’s per button, powered by two lithium batteries connected in 24v. The hydraulic system is for handling the sails as well as two of the winches. The ventilating-system from the engine room is going through here, as well as the second waterlock for the exhaust. Then we have one of the two manually operated bilge pumps here and outgoing hoses for both the electrical pumps. There’s an inlet hose for the big (750 liter) fuel tank underneath which we don’t use anymore. The 350 liter tank on the starboard side is enough for us to travel at least 300 nautical miles under engine. Finally there’s enough space left for our little foldable bikes.

Did i forget something or somebody?

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CAN’T CALL THIS KETTLE BLACK

Have a look at our new kettle. Except for the handle it is hot as hell. And that’s the main reason we bought this sexy baby. Our old kettle was way to hot to handle the handle. Uhm, what? Forget it, we have something hot on board. That’s all that matters.

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STORMY WINDOWS

It’s not ‘stormy’ Mrs.Turner was singing about, was it? We had a wee bit of a breeze, hitting the 45 knots in gales last night. Sideways that’s always a unpleasant ride. Even in the marina. So you can probably guess how it was outside the harbour. The only advantage of this shitty weather is that you can do lot’s of useful things inside.

Station Vlieland 16-04-2024

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RUN FORREST RUN – BOSTON MARATHON

Leonie is off to the Boston Marathon. It’s the second time she’s going to run this one and i think she’s more then prepared for it, also having the experience of the first time a couple of years ago. After the run, which is on Monday the 15th, she’s going on tour to the westcoast with a couple of friends. I think they will use a plane to get there, but you never know.

If you want all the details just follow her on Polarsteps!

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SEE ONE LICENSE

Thanks to Vincent, Tamme, Leo and Kees i passed my C1 drivers license this morning. Now we can finally hit the road with our 4wheelmachine. And by that i mean, completely official. I can’t help it that we only last winter discovered the maximum approved weight of our camper was above the 3500kg. Besides that, the text on the registration certificate is really very, very small and nobody told us and we can’t read and never listen and we are stupid. And we’ve been very lucky nobody checked us.

So the circle is completed and confirmed again, luck is with the stupid. No argue on that one.

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TULIPS & MORE

Is it strange to have a vase with beautiful tulips on your table on board? Probably that’s a yes if you’re on the move. But we are still busy getting our beloved lady ready for the upcoming season and I think it’s ok if you are docked.

It’s way to much to mention everything we did and replaced the last week. So besides a million little jobs we also had our Webasto-heater renewed. The old one was in overtime in the amount of burning hours and we didn’t want to take any risk this season. We brought our life raft to a station for an inspection and hopefully a new certificate. At the same time we bought a new set offshore emergency fireworks as ours were outdated last year. I tested the Easymob- ais/dsc beacons we have in our jackets and decided to buy an Oceansignal Epirb also. Just to be as safe as possible in case of an emergency.

When the spring arrives I’ll send to you
Tulips from Amsterdam
When the spring arrives, I’ll pick for you
Tulips from Amsterdam
When I do return I’ll bring for you
Tulips from Amsterdam
Thousand tulips, red and yellow
Wish you all the best my dearest
What I can not say in words
Say the tulips from Amsterdam