Boat Düsseldorf: the symbiosis between design and construction

Connectie speaking with Germán Frers: Quality in modesty! You can design a beautiful ship, but if the builder makes a pot of it, your design won’t last long. It will be different if you can find a builder who knows how to bring that design to life as the designer intended. And the other way […]

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Report HRC Captains Dinner Antwerp 2019

For this event, all means of transport are used by our connection members, except for the airplane, to get to Antwerp. Twan and Marleen (HR 36 “Kendu”) came by sailboat, André and Annet (HR 53 “Obsession”) by motorboat, Rutger and Madeleine (HR 46 “Esperanza”) by bicycle and the undersigned by train. We (Nicolette and Edwin […]

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Engine maintenance training for HRC members 1 or 8 February 2020

On Saturday 1 and 8 February we are organising a motor maintenance training in cooperation with Matthijs Blonk of HR352 Rianne. For many of us engine maintenance is something we like to leave to a specialist. But what if something happens to the cooling water in a foreign port or country, the V-belt is stretched […]

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Invitation and Programme Captains dinner RYCB 16th November 2019 Antwerpen and signup!

We are pleased to send you the programme for our annual captains dinner on Saturday the third of November, which was put together for us by our Belgium HRC coordinator Rutger Steenmeijer (HR Esperanza). This year our Captains dinner will be hosted by the Royal Yacht Club Belgium (RYCB). Since June 2017, the Royal Yacht Club […]

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Visit traffic centre Wemeldinge (VHF 68)

“Traffic centre Wemeldinge, this is the Grobbebol yacht: are there any other details? Grobbebol: no details; stay standby”. On Saturday September 28th Nicolette and I don’t get in the boat to go to an HRC-event, but in the car. A strange feeling when you are used to being present at an event with the Grobbebol. […]

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“Those who stay at home are always wrong!

Report Hiswa te water event Lelystad 7-9 September 2019  Thursday 5 September On Thursday afternoon the Grobbebol leaves Aalsmeer for an HRC-event. This time the journey for the 2nd time this year goes to the IJsselmeer for the Hiswa-event in Lelystad. Friends sometimes ask me if this is not boring? Always one night in Amsterdam […]

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Final programme and Registration for a visit to the traffic centre Wemeldinge on 28 September 2019!

“Verkeerspost Wemeldinge here sailingyacht NoMad”“NoMad – Wemeldinge”“Wemeldinge – NoMad, we will cross the canal entrance from west to east, over”“NoMad – Wemeldinge, understood, there is no outgoing traffic, out “ Two more weeks and then we visit the traffic post in Wemeldinge, the so-called VHF 68. Marinus and his team welcome us at 2 pm. […]

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On November 16, 2019, Captains dinner at the beautifully situated RYCB in Antwerp!

The annual captains dinner is coming up! The announcement of the annual captains dinner (this year with some nice optional activities in the afternoon, before dinner and the ALV), has already led to many positive reactions. Behind the scenes there is still a lot of work going on to create a great programme. Soon more […]

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HRC-IJsselmeer Experience 2019 1st edition

We organize an HRC event and we take with us: a wallpaper table, standing tables, coffee pots, 80 muffins, 3 packs of coffee, coffee cups, “beach flags”, peppermint rolls and lots of fun. Indispensable ingredients for the organizing committee of the first HRC North event (or event of experience as you wish). But we started […]

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