News

The TVK calendar 2023 is available again.  This time with beautiful photos that we received from enthusiastic skippers who want to share their most beautiful shots. It is striking all all the entries are of classics.  

After a short period of illness our treasurer and member of the comission Care and Maintenace  Henny Op de Weegh died on october 21.  Henny sailed after a Trintella II many years with the Trintella 42 Onyx in Greece.  As old -mechanic on the freighters of KPM was a real sailor. We thank Henny for his voor his dedication to our Association.

 See here the  Rouwkaart van Henny

The 2022 TVK calendar is available to order. Including beautiful photos of Trintel and Trintella scale models in A4 format. The calendar can be downloaded here. The paper edition costs €10 including shipping costs and can be ordered by sending an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. stating your name, address, telephone number and number of calendars. After receipt of the total amount on account NL10RABO 0148150594 in the name of Trintella Vriendenkring, the order will be shipped.

Last winter the Trintella IIIa Limelight was cameraboat for the tv programm 3-op-reis (canal3-on-journey). They ware searching for the Big Five of the Oosterschelde and specially to porpoises. Watch the tv fragment or read the report of skipper Steef van Velsen.

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For the fouth  time  Peter van der Waa was very succesfull in publkishing our new style glossy magazine. Again it is a very readable high standard quality magazine.   It is for the members as well as for  relations in the yachtmarket. Read here the Dutch version. The five articles  marked on top with an English flag are translated.  For the English Translation :

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 We have found Theo Neilen from ’s-Hertogenbosch willing to work on the Project Scale Models led by Peter van der Waa. Theo will be checking the models, cleaning them and repairing them where needed, before we take the pictures.

New is the TVK-calender 2021. With 13 beautifull pictures of Trintels and Trintella’s on A4 format. You can download the calender here. Is the  resolution to low? Send a mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and we send you per ‘WeTransfer’  a big file.

Yachtbuilder Joop Doomernik announced two new sailingyachts which get the name Trintella .  The ships are  45 and 50 feet long and designed by  German Frers.

Reed  here  the article from  Jachtbouw Nederland (Yachtbuiding Holland) which announced the news. The article is in Dutch but you can already see the beautifull artist impressions.

In our newsletter of March 2018 we mentioned the film Adrift, based on a book by Tami Oldham, in which a Trintella 44 named Hazana has an important role. After seeing this film, some of our members have recorded their experiences.