Spindrift
Owner: Wim
About This Vessel
A 34-foot cruising sloop kept on the IJsselmeer. Nothing exotic - an honest, well-found boat for long weekends and the odd week up into the Wadden Sea. This logbook is where her trips live.
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Spindrift • Sep 06, 2025
Provisioned, fuelled, tide tables printed and stuck to the bulkhead. We slipped out of the Compagnieshaven mid-mornin...
Spindrift • Sep 07, 2025
Proper crossing today - beam reach across the open IJsselmeer with one reef in for the gusts. The lake gets a short, ...
Spindrift • Sep 08, 2025
First salt water of the trip. We locked through at Kornwerderzand on the Afsluitdijk - fenders down, lines ready, the...
Spindrift • Sep 09, 2025
You don't sail the Wadden Sea on a clock, you sail it on the tide. We left Harlingen on the last of the flood and rod...
Spindrift • Sep 10, 2025
No engine today. Vlieland has one village and no through-traffic, so we walked - up to the lighthouse, over the dunes...
Spindrift • Sep 11, 2025
A short, sociable leg over to Terschelling between the sandbanks, timed once again to the water. The Brandaris lighth...
Spindrift • Sep 12, 2025
The front came through overnight and left a brisk south-westerly behind it. Reefed down and ran back across the Wad o...
Spindrift • Sep 13, 2025
Locked back into the IJsselmeer at Kornwerderzand and pointed south for Hindeloopen - a tiny old Frisian town that fe...
Spindrift • Sep 14, 2025
One last crossing of the IJsselmeer, close-hauled most of the way, back to the home berth in Enkhuizen. Nine days, tw...