AmanecerFinally some of the typical local summer weather here. Calm nights, weak Southerly breezes & then around midday it dies to turn into a nice sea breeze from North East today. Bow waveYesterday, already left El Abra early to pick up this Southerly to get out to sea. Didn't get

This time an around 10 km trip with a inflatable kayak up & down the Urdaibai estuary. The tidal range is a few meters here and the estuary pretty much dries out when the tide is out but when you set off a few hours before high water one could

May & June brought a very mixed bag of strange weather & not really suitable for coastal trips but the last few days of June finally brought a nice weather window to go for a little practise trip in a Easterly direction against the wind. Cabo VillanoInitially hardly any wind

Although it was very early on in my Merchant Navy career, more than 30 years ago now that I started realising humanity and the Shipping Industry particularly where on the wrong tack with regards to leaving some leeway for future generations, I didn't actually expect to see the day that

In less than a month it will be a year ago I sailed from my hometown Groningen, the Netherlands to Bizkaia, Euskal Herria. That little country in the North East of Spain most people never heard off. The pandemic was the perfect excuse to start work on making my backup