Lithium (Lifepo4) batteries on board?
We are all thinking about it. Should we switch on board your boat from standard batteries Lead,AGM or Gel to
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Adventures of a globetrotter
Part of Aerotaxi group
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Winter ’23-’24 (EN)
In terms of weather, it was a quiet winter, a bit of ice, but never enough for an eleven-city trip
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Part 9 Return to Friesland (Youtube 21 en 22)
In this section, we entered Lauwersoog, unfortunately not without problems, continuing our way through beautiful Friesland. Lauwersoog sluis We enter
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Part 8 Holtenau (Kiel) – Lauwersoog (Youtube video 20)
Kiel kanaal On 18-8-23 at 10.00 am, I light anchor, out of the bay close to the entrance of the
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Part 7 Göteborg – Kiel
In this part, we have already left Gothenburg behind and are making a very long trip south for 16 hours
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Part 5 Gota canal Vadstena – Sjotorp (YouTube 16)
In this part which follows part 4, we continue our journey along the Gota Canal from Vadstena, crossing Lake Vattern,
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Part 4 Gota canal Berg – Vadstena
A journey through the Gota Canal – Part 3 was the Carl Johan lock step at Berg. It was another
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Simba and Swedish mice
Simba ate her first Swedish mouse. Day after, she also managed to drop a live mouse on board. It’s becoming
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Part 3 Gota Canal Mem – Berg-upper
As mentioned in the previous Part 2 arriving in Mem on the east coast of Sweden, this is the starting
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Part 2 Gota Up along Sweden’s east coast
Kalmar (YouTube video #8)Part 1 ended that I anchored in Karlskrona. From there on 28-5-23 around 1300, I raise my
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Part 1 Gota trip Netherlands – southern Sweden
Nederland (Youtube Part 0 – The journey to the Gota Canal)On 6 April I hope to be back in the
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Just before 1 April, the first misery starts, starter battery seems dead, luckily for me the problem is limited to
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Summer trip 2023 through Sweden
In 2015, I took a beautiful trip to St.Petersburg. These and many other trips I depicted in my first book,
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2022 Brunsbuttel – Fluessen Frl.
Heligoland-Lauwersoog As mentioned in my previous blog, I leave next morning at 10 am, at high tide I go through
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2022 The return journey from Middelfart
Anchorage south-east of Middelfart Saturday 23-July-2022 Departure from MiddelfartAt 10.15 I disconnect from the Ellya, after wishing each other a
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2022 The Baltic Sea to Denmark
Kieler Fjord As mentioned in the earlier blog, we, the Asmara and the Ellya, left the lock at Holtenau on
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2022 Friesland New dinghy, Eider, Kiel Canal and Sea
After I am “home” again in Friesland, I sail to the Kruispolle, a marrekrite island on the Fluessen, where I
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2022 We have departed . . . . . ?
Later than planned, but that had everything to do with the preparation. . . .
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Journey through Sweden (update)
The spontaneous idea for this trip, which originated in February 2022 across Sweden, was too short and not feasible. Despite
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Summer voyage Baltic 2021 Part 6 – The return voyage Svendborg to Æro (dk)
Here I continue the last part of my journey from Svendborg Bay to the island of Aeroskobing and from there
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Summer voyage Baltic 2021 Part 5 – The round trip to Svendborg, dk
Thursday 08-07-2021 Departure from GdanskIn 2015 I had it easy. Then I could make a reasonably easy crossing from the
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Baltic summer trip 2021 part 4 along Polish coast to Gdansk
On 27 June 2021 at 04:50 hours (yes, an unchristian time, but I was awake) I leave Swinemunde behind me
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Summer voyage Baltic 2021 Part 3 Kiel Canal and Baltic Sea
Continued from part 2 Into the lock at Brunsbuttel . . . The Nord Ostsee Canal Saturday, 12 June 2021I
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Baltic summer trip 2021 Part 2
We continue our journey from the Lauwersmeer to sea at Lauwersoog via Norderney to Helgoland. Out to sea to Helgoland
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Baltic summer trip 2021 Part 1
This trip is planned in corona time, from my winter port to Scandinavia. The global planning is from Friesland to
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It’s all over again that beautiful summer of 2020
After the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in March and the whole of the Netherlands started working from home where possible,
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From Helgoland and back via wad and wantide
On july 25th I start off from Helgoland with my return journey to Holland. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic I
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The island of Helgoland and Dune
Helgoland (Northern Frisian: Deät Lun (The Country), English: Heligoland, German: Helgoland) is a German island in the North Sea. In
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Route to Helgoland
I’m writing on Saturday 11 July, after two weeks in Dokkum because I felt rickety for a few days. .
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Summer 2020 Departure
New Job When I write this, I do not yet know what this summer will bring me. In November 2019,
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Baltic 2019 Fishing Langeland.(DK)
Departure Sassenheim 30 June Finally sailing again . . . . After a long winter with three extra months of
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2016 Round trip Denmark Part 4 Copenhagen – Netherlands
Copenhagen is the capital of Denmark and has about 562,379 inhabitants (2013). The most famous is of course Lille Havfrue
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Baltic 2015 Part 4 Finland – St. Petersburg – Finland
FinlandThe Finns call their land ‘Suomi’, which means land of lakes and swamps. A small country with a lot of
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Baltic 2015 Part 3 Lithuania – Tallinn
KaliningradKaliningrad former East Prussia, Konigsberg was assigned to Russia in 1945 to have ice-free passage all year round. It lies
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England 2014.(EN)
16-17 juli 2014Non stop Vlissingen – Orwell river (Harwich, UK) It is around 1100 when I leave the harbour in
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