The Godess of the seas, our experiences, opinions and lessons learned
December 2024, and finally I am on my way back home. After having spent November and December in Holland and Curaçao. It was a long journey back first from Curaçao to Amsterdam where I stayed a couple of days to visit my parents. The the long 12 hour flight from[…]
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Ah Ma sits safely in her berth with enough water under the keel to weather the 5 meter tides. At Playita we prepare for the long journey to the Galapagos and onward. The boat needs to be filled with dozens of tins of food and staples. Our skipper for hire[…]
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Today we finally will depart from the island I once called home. I’ll leave with mixed feelings as I’m afraid I won’t visit this island any time soon again. Curacao has gained a special place in my heart. I raised my first born here, founded my company and learned many[…]
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A few more days before we set off on the first leg of the long journey to the other side of the Pacific. The last few days were spent finishing off some of the last tasks on the to-do list. The running backstay has been replaced with a fresh string[…]
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Two suitcases filled with almost 50kg of bounty from TaoBao and local shops accompanied me from Macau back to Holland. Here I’ve picked up two life vests and my Marcom/B Radio license documents and said my goodbyes to my parents and brother. It is now time to head out to[…]
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I saw this post on a facebook group, asking, what is the name of your boat and why. It made me realize I never posted this draft in how Ah Ma became Ah Ma. And as we are still stranded on Curacao, waiting for engine parts I thought let’s finish[…]
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What an eventful couple of weeks it has been. We haven’t left the marina for a single day, as our engine doesn’t have an exhaust elbow at the moment. This is a piece of metal tubing to guide the black clouds out to the hole in the stern. Our pristine[…]
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The first couple of weeks back on the island of Curacao were full of chaos and to-do’s. When I arrived I took a couple of days at the hotel near the marina to give me some time to prepare the boat for living aboard. As I saw her there lying[…]
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Only a couple of days more before I once again undertake the 30 hours journey from Macau to the place once I called home, Curacao. It has been about three months ago that we left our lady at the docks of the Santa Barbara Marina. My friend, Willo, has been[…]
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Next hurdle would be finding a place to register and insure our soon to be yacht. Not as easy as it sounds, when approaching the larger insurance companies like Pantaenius they right out refused insurance because the boat is lying in Curacao which in their mind is in the very dangerous Caribbean. Even though Curacao is well removed from the hurricane belt and Spanish Waters is probably one of the safest spots to moor your boat in the region.
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