8th September 2017
I just got back online after two beautiful weeks of sailing trough Holland, showing some family & friends my sailing life and why I love it […]
16th August 2017
Here are some nice video’s from our Minicat Meeting in Italy last June. Mum, dad, and I drove from Holland and spent the weekend with 50 […]
15th August 2017
Another super exciting thing happened last month. Havorn finally became a sailboat! Her masts are stepped! And even though it’s without booms, gafs and only thin […]
8th June 2017
A new adventure Over the past years I have had many people ask me “Whats next?” – probably expecting me to start with some other adventure […]
22nd February 2017
Beautiful early morning start – Great Barier Isl. in the distance. Hiking up to Mt Hobson views from the top of Mt Hobson Kim’s game day […]
22nd February 2017
We go ashore the following day to hike to the peak of Mt Hirakimata which – with 627m – is the highest point on Great Barrier […]
20th February 2017
Taking dad on a big hike on his birthday 🙂 Not sure if this was a great birthday present as hiking isn’t one of his favourite […]
18th February 2017
Imagine my surprise when I was checking my mails this morning and read in a newspaper article that Guppy has been sold?! It took me a […]
14th July 2015
Sorting and checking Guppy’s anchor gear. A gorgeous sunset accompanies us while sailing trough the bridge on our way out. Last weekend Daniel and I […]
9th May 2015
I took on a delivery from Bluff to Whangarei on a Wharram catamaran. Well, that trip was ehm, interesting.. I flew down the day before the […]
20th March 2015
Here’s a beautiful article about the restoration of my sextant, done by Bill Morris. He has done an absolutely fantastic job. http://sextantbook.com/2015/02/ For all my […]
31st July 2014
On the 31st of July we left New York and headed to Frankfurt with a stopover in Paris. I had decided that I actually wanted to […]
15th July 2014
From the Redwood forest we kept on heading South, following the coastline. Compared to the temperatures further inland the west-coast was very cold and going for […]
9th July 2014
By now we had reached Montana and if anybody has done the math so far, this is very, very far away from the ocean… I had […]
8th July 2014
Just before reaching Teton, we got to a little town called Dubois. Dubois fascinated us by its beautiful log houses and cozy wild west atmosphere and […]
7th July 2014
And so the fun begins 🙂 First stop, Toronto. I was presenting at Ideacity, a three-day conference that includes a lot of different speakers and topics. […]
6th July 2014
Leaving the beautiful little town and the friendly people that we had stayed with in Tahiti, Daniel and I went through a massive culture shock. We […]
15th March 2014
Cutting onions can be an emotional job, but there are good solutions available 🙂 Cleaning Guppy’s winches. Hurricane Luci passing Northland. Poles came out of the […]
27th February 2014
A curious Albatross checking out on Guppy. Moonlight while seas are calm, some days are simply magical and indescribable With the Spinnaker up Guppy lays straight […]
12th February 2014
As you can see on the pictures we have let Guppy out again. Going to the Hen and Chickens which is a group of islands just […]
24th October 2013
I’m standing at the airport surrounded by my family who all drove to Amsterdam to say goodbye to me. Saying goodbye is never great fun, but […]
15th August 2013
We had five marvelous days on Sweet Robin, the Jeanneau we borrowed from new made friends in Phuket. After checking everything on the boat and doing […]
21st July 2013
We arrived in Phuket, Thailand safely – after an unexpected layover in Singapore. We had booked the 8 o’clock morning flight from Singapore to Phuket, which […]
9th July 2013
Just realized that my last blog is already a while ago and so many exciting things have been happening since. I was back on Guppy for […]
17th June 2013
The past three weeks I’ve been in Morocco for a Dutch tv game programme wich will be on television from August. For a change it had […]
21st May 2013
I’m very proud to announce that my book ‘A girl a dream’ will be published tomorrow, sadly only in Dutch so far. ‘A girl a dream’ […]
10th May 2013
On the way from Auckland, the rain started pounding against the windscreen. ‘Welcome back to Whangarei,’ I thought while driving on familiar roads again. The weather […]
2nd May 2013
We spent a whole day cleaning and repacking ‘Joy’. We washed, cleaned, and made a For Sale sign for ‘Marta,” my girlfriend’s car which we left […]
18th April 2013
Well I haven’t been writing much, but a lot happened since the last blog. I’m back in civilization again, after spending a while traveling in places […]
24th March 2013
Life’s been quite adventure’s since the last update. I decided to go traveling a bit and explore New Zealand on wheels. So once the Fanworm problem […]
7th March 2013
Because of the Fanworm feeling a bit to well on Guppy’s hull I had to take the boat out of the water, which I could only […]
26th February 2013
My life continues to be really exiting and very busy! In the past week I have taken Guppy out two times to the Poor Knights, flown […]
15th February 2013
It’s been quite a while since my last blog. Even though I don’t travel as much as I used to, there’s still so much happening and […]
