One of my great new supporters is Bart Rosemuller of Bootverkopers.nl. I am very pleased with his support. But I have to be careful with this guy. He will sell my boat in no time, haha ! No, I won't change horses. The VQ32 is an excellent boat for the heavy stuff. Really looking forward to be out on the water again. Skating is fun, but now that we've done that an early spring would be most welcome.

COLD WINTER IN LELYSTAD

Vandal and Home of Jazz together in the cold port of Lelystad Haven. Trapped in 15 cm ice with 15 cm snow on top. 

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ANOTHER LESSON LEARNED

After the Round Britain things looked pretty awful. Empty pockets. Difficulties everywhere. Taxman banging on the door. Not seen my kids in ages. Hard to focus on my work at the office. I saw no possibility to continue sailing. Not enouth time, not enough money. I decided to quit.

Many people said that I would regret this rigurous step, and I knew I would. But I felt I had no other choice.

Half a year later and things have calmed down. I put myself back together. Written some new stuff. Played a number of good gigs with my trio. Recorded some pieces for guitar solo. Did a half marathon in 1.44hrs. Felt much better again.

Finally I started to look for the possibilities to continue racing, in stead of only seeing the difficulties. And now I found a solution. Fantastic! 


    

DAM TOT DAM LOOP

What do sailors do to keep in good shape? Running ? Yep. http://www.damloop.nl/ . The event has an English touch: we have to run 10 English Miles, totalling 16,1 kilometer. Now that is a bit tricky and distracting for sailors used to sea miles.

"LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY"

This video was made in 1991 when I was playing in a band called Raibow Five with some veteran musicians including Gerard van Bezey (drums), Ger van Leeuwen (piano), Rob Meyn (vibrafone) and David de Marez Oyens (bas). David and me were studying at the conservatory at that time. We look so young .. time just slips away.

DAILY SAIL

We made it to the walhalla of the Daily Sail, tadaaa!! Home page, coverstory about the start of the RBI with this picture.

Another picture published on Daily Sail. Between al those white boats Home of Jazz and BluQube (sailed by Katie Miller - see below) really stand out.