Hello from the Netherlands

[Voyager269]

Hello,

let's talk a bit about myself and my wife and 2 children.

It started when i was 20 years or so, helping someone varnishing a BM 16 m2. It's a mahogany gaff rigged sailboat, i think 6 - 6,5 metres long.
After we sailed a lot with it (and with a Sail Horse), i bought my first wooden sailboat, a smaller one, but i liked it.
I filmed some boats last summer, this i more or less what i did then.

Zeilen wedstrijden 'Oud Zeilend Hout' - Classic Sailing Vessels Regatta - YouTube

Ashore, people had stolen the rudder, mast, rigging etc. So allmost nothing left. Episode one exit.

Many many years later i met my wife, and i thought, let's buy another BM.
So we did. we sailed it a few years, but with 2 children growing faster and faster, the sailboat was becoming too small. Exit episode two.

After that we chartered a Bavaria, and then 'lightning stroke' more or less.
We decided to save money, so we are (maybe) able to sail a Catalina Morgan 45, or a Moody 42 CC, or a ..........
Yet we are reading lots of books, doing some courses, and learn a lot at home ourselves. I makes fun to do that, but why is it taking so long before was can retire?
Well, we have to wait another 6 years at least.

Last summer we visited the Isle of Wight, UK. Man, how beautiful was that. I we could sail to such destinations later!! Here an impression of the Isle of Wight near The Needles and Freshwater Bay.

Tennyson monument, Isle of Wight - YouTube

Are here more people around from the Netherlands?

Greetings from the Netherlands,

Taco en Margriet.

[SkiprJohn]

Aloha and welcome aboard!
Yes, there are a few more here on the forum from the Netherlands.
I was able to visit your country a few times and found it to be very enjoyable especially in the spring.
kind regards,

[GordMay]

Greetings and welcome aboard the CF, Voyager269.