Archives: December, 2024

Lifetime achievement for Harry from the Royal Netherlands Yachtclub KNZ&RV!

December 16, 2024

Last Saturday the Royal Netherlands Yacht Club (KNZ&RV) honored  Harry with a Lifetime achievement award for all his achievements with WINSOME in the last 25+ years. This price, the ‘Halve Maen’ award, is a beautiful silver full model of the old VOC sailing vessel ‘Halve Maen’ (‘Half Moon’) and was last awarded to King Harold […]

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Stay in Vienna and 7th leg Vienna-Budel

December 7, 2024

The hotel in Vienna, called Motto, looked from outside impressive but what we did not know was that it appeared to be a “do-it-yourself” or “no-service-hotel” with heavy doors [Fort Knox?] served by complicated electric systems to open them.  What was good in the hotel was their restaurant on the top floor where we had […]

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Our stay in Nice and the sixt leg Nice-Vienna 30 November-3 December

December 3, 2024

We had a good time in Nice, also thanks to the efforts of a friend resp, ex neighbour Rodolphe Frégé, who organised a very pleasant hotel belonging to his company. It is overlooking the bay of Nice. The airport – Nice Côte d’Azur, was gigantic but fortunately there were in the off-season only some 20 […]

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