I have owned many sailboats in my life. You will find photos of TINTEL my current 36ft Hoek Design one-of which I launched in 2000 and have sailed mostly to Scandinavia. KIM is a 70 ft ketch and was launched in 1990, also of the drawing board of Andre Hoek. We sailed her to the Mediterenean, the West Indies and part of the North coast of South America. We also sailed her often to Norway even up to the Lofoten Islands. The Ouwe Reus (which means Good Friend) was launched in 1979 and used by me to sail around the world between 1980 and 1983. A nice detail is that my mother baptised the Ouwe Reus, my wife baptised the Kim and my daughters Anne and Mathilde baptised the Tintel. I am a lucky man indeed. Click on the buttons for photos of Tintel and KIM and the sailing trip round the world with Ouwe Reus

Chart of the first part of the sailing trip in 1980-1983 around the globe with Ouwe Reus here at anchor in the lagoon of Bora Bora

Tintel

Kim

Me with a gletsjer near Cape Horn