Travelogues

During the summer of 2022 Jan van der Pouw took his Trintella I, Castor Spica on a singlehanded sailing journey: Around England in 80 days, counterclockwise.

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One of the great things about being a series coordinator is reconstructing the history of boats and their owners. An interesting case lead us on a hunt into history.

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The Single and Duo-Handed are once-a-year sailingtours from 4x24 hours. The winner? Not the fastest, but the most persevering, thorough, and creative sailor with the most delightful logbook. It is a real marathon with comical challenges, nautical questions, and nigh unending reaches.

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What do you do when you are in a foreign harbour and COVID takes you by surprise?  Willem de Graaf’s Trintella IIIa Ros Beyaert is in Alicante. Willem describes how he has gone on several trips despite COVID.  You can download an printable pdf version here.

 This (2019) summer, sv Persistence (1977 Tyler Victory 48 / Trintella V) completed a 1900nm round trip from Seattle, Washington to Ketchikan, Alaska.

Paul Droulers from France has realised his boyhood dream: at the end of 2015 he –alone- crossed the Atlantic Ocean with his Trintella IIa. Paul convinced his wife and children, took three months absence from work and embarked on his yacht ‘Blondine’.

Every English person we asked about the Scilly Islands on the way commended the islands. They were said to be idyllic. You have to see it, is what two motor yacht sailors told us in Little Hampton. They even gave us brochures.