You’re a surfer, sailor or wake boarder? Then the HISWA 2011 is the place for you to be! From march, 1st 2011 till march, 6th 2011 the HISWA takes place at the RAI Amsterdam. Here you’ll find amazing yachts for nearly any budget. If you like the HISWA RAI to start the sail season you may also like the HISWA TE WATER to end the sail season. The HISWA TE WATER takes place from september, 6th 2011 till september, 11th 2011 at the Marina Seaport IJmuiden.
Because of much work as well as a sailing trip on the Wadden Sea I haven’t been sailing for a few weeks. Today I thought: “Well, now I have time, hard wind and I’m really motivated!” Therefore after work I went directly to my boat to sail a bit.
Yesterday Laura Dekker left the Netherlands to start her solo sail trip around the world (see also my other post) and tomorrow I’ll prepare my sail trip. OK, it’s not that spectacular as Laura’s sail trip is. But for me it’s also a special tour. My parents will visit me tomorrow. After one night staying at my house we’ll leave Amsterdam on Saturday to travel to Enkhuizen. There we’ll enter the Broedertrouw, a 2 mast sail ship which is 34 meter long and sailed by skipper Arno and sailor Saskia. We’ll be leaving Enkhuizen on Saturday and will return to Enkhuizen Saturday, 15th of august.
Today the 14 year old Laura Dekker left her home harbor Brouwershaven (Zeeland) together with her father. At first they sail together to Portugal with Laura’s 11.5 meter sail yacht called Guppy. On their way to Portugal they will do several checks with the boat as well as with the equipment. From Portugal Laura will start her tour sailing around the world on her own. If everything went right she will be the youngest person who sailed around the world in history.
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I just arrived at home from my daily sail trip. Today we had nearly no wind in Amsterdam. Therefore I thought these must be the perfect weather conditions for me as starter. I had to know it better. How could I forget what my sister told me a few years ago? She works as a snowboard instructor. And she told me that she sends all starter not to the lazy idiot course but well to the blue course. I asked her if she didn’t aspect to much from her beginners. She told me: “They’ll learn it better under real conditions.”