Programme for Spring Meeting 2024 at the Grevelingenmeer

Ascension day 9 May 2024: arrival at the of society harbour Herkingen around 16:00.

  
We will have the dock drinks ready and can meet and catch up. We will be expected at het Restaurant Nova, Peuterdijk 45a, 3249 AW Herkingen at 18:30. This restaurant is within walking distance of the harbour.

Friday 10 May 2024: in the morning we will leave for Brouwershaven. For those who wish to partake there’s a regatta. The shape, content and route will remain a surprise until the very last possible moment. Arnold Pouls is the organiser of this and will surely deliver a wonderful event.

In Brouwershaven we will be in the harbour near the quay. There is no programme scheduled for the evening. We weren’t able to book a dinner option that would host all members of our large party. But for smaller groups there will surely be a spot in one of the local restaurants.

Saturday 11 May 2024: in the morning Gerard Hoogewerff will host ‘spying on your neighbours’, the possibility to take a look aboard one of the other member’s boats and get informed on everything and anything you’ve always wanted to know and see.

That afternoon at 13:00 a touring car will be ready to take us to the Watersnoodmuseum. There we will be informed about what happened in 1953 in the Netherlands and what the consequences were. We will be back in Brouwershaven around 17:30.

At around 18:00, we will be dropped off at the Den Osse harbor by the bus. There, we board the party boat M/S Grevelingen for a cruise on the Grevelingen. We have the cruise boat to ourselves. During the cruise, we'll enjoy an extensive buffet. Around 9:00 PM, we'll be dropped off in Brouwershaven.

Sunday 12 May 2024: we will be leaving Brouwershaven for the trip home or, for the lucky ones, for a beautiful holiday in Zeeland.

Signing up for Spring Meeting 2024

Participation fee for the weekend: €80,- per person. If you are joining only part of the weekend, the costs are as follows: €40,- for the Thursday programme, €20,- for the Friday programme, and €40,- for the Saturday programme.

Participation fee for the trip to the Watersnoodmuseum: €20,- per person, which includes the bus fair and entrance to the museum. If you already own a Netherlands Museum pass, we appreciate you using it.

We are booking and paying for all mooring fees together. The costs are €2,75 per meter of ship’s length, which includes tourist tax.

You can sign up via the Trintella Vriendenkring website. After registering, you will receive an email with an overview of the total costs based on the activities you signed up for. We request you transfer the money to the TVK bank account, IBAN number NL10 RABO 0148 1505 94. Registration is final after we’ve received payment.

Sign up as soon as possible. Only then we will be able to make proper arrangements with the harbours, restaurant, and party boat.

We hope to see you all there!

The new TVK calender 2024 is published. With beautifull pictures of Trintels and Trintella's. The pictures are made during the TVK Springmeeting in the Ascencion weekend 2023 in Lelystad and Schokkerhaven. You can print the calender yourself. Who preferes a professional printed one can order them by sending an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .  Please mention the format (A3 or A4),  the number of calenders you want to recieve.and the adress they have to be send to. The price is €15 for the A4  and €20 for the A3 The transoprt price is not included. After recieving the total amount on the TVK bankaccount NL10RABO0148150594 we send them to you.  You can see and download the calender here.

A few weeks ago we received following mail from Mr. Wolfgang Willutzki: I'm the owner of a Trintella Ia from1969 with a fiberglas hull, teak deck and mahogany superstructure. The ship was bought in Holland in 2008 and has since been fully refurbished. Not only has she been restored where needed, she is now also fitted with today's technology.

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

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.

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.