Lelystad to Enkhuizen – 13.1 miles in 3 hours 20 minutes Chris and Wendy spent the morning touring the Batavia Werf museum and looking round the Seven Provinces and Batavia ships. On the way out we motored close past the Batavia to be greeted by one of the volunteers in …
Amsterdam to Lelystad – 20.6 miles in 6 hours 25 minutes A nice relaxed sail today. We left Amsterdam around 10.30am after stocking up. We finally found the supermarket nearby – turns out there is a small food section in a Hema store just round the back of the next …
Lelystad to Amsterdam – 24.9 miles in 6 hours 5 minutes A trip of two halves today … Leaving Lelystad around 7.40am we had a lovely sail under jib only back across to Amsterdam. The wind gradually built from the NE and slowly went E giving us a broad reach …
Hoorn to Lelystad – 16.5 miles in 2 hours 40 minutes A cracking sail today. The wind kicked in for the first time with a NE4. After some shopping around Hoorn, we headed out about 10.45am. After yet another abortive attempt to pump-out and fill up with fuel (the barge …
Lelystad to Medemblik – 25.9 miles in 4 hours 35 minutes With a better forecast for today, we decided to head back across the Markermeer and north into the Ijsselmeer again. The destination we chose was Medemblik, not least because the marina there is part of the Amsterdam marina group, …
A day off today. Given that it was blowing 25 knots plus outside and the lifeboat was launched this morning, staying in Lelystad looks like it was a good decision.After shopping in the morning, we spent the afternoon at the Batavia Werf. Between 1985 and 1995 a complete replica of …
Hoorn to Lelystad via Enkhuizen – 25.2 miles We started the morning with a quick walk round the harbour in Hoorn and then headed off (via the pump-out barge) round the coast to Enkhuizen. To do this requires, since 1975, going through the lock in the Houtribdijk. This was built …
