Yacht charter Spain - Meditteranean sailing holidays

It is probably beacause my father was an officer in the dutch merchant navy that ever since I was a kid,
I was interested in boats and the seamanslife. My first boat was a canoo and from that moment on I soon got involved in sailing.I learned how to handle small boats on the lakes around Rotterdam where I lived and sailed later bigger sailing boats in the south of Holland and Zeeland on open waters and the sea. Although I wanted to become a sailor I eventually went to the university where I got a degree in Sociology and communication.
But somehow I could not resist the sirens of the sea and I accepted an offer to work on a fishing boat for two years.

I learned all the ins and outs of seamanship, the secrets of the sea and the skills of navigation. After this period, which was physically quite heavy, I got involved in radio-and television journalistics and started a long career in the Dutch media world, where I was quite successfull. Nevertheless, the sea was always in my mind and that is why I finally bought a 9 meter motorsailer, designed by De Vries Lentsch with which I had many sailing adventures on my trips to Belgium, France and England.

After I made a serie of radioprogrammes about the world of yachting, I was offered a job as a captain of a 17 meter schooner at a sailtraining project in Rotterdam. I got my final nautical education on board the well known trainingschooner "Eendracht" and I worked with the project for about three years, where I also did the co-ordination of all the training aspects.

For this work, I was honoured by the Dutch Shipping Inspection with a certificate of competency as a captain on seagoing sailingships with passengers, up to 300 tons.



Ever since that time, I have been sailing around in the sailingseason: I worked as a sailing instructor, I gave crewtraining, sailed charterboats with passengers, delivered boats and had my oceancrossing. I was involved in refit-management, I worked with a yacht-architect and wrote articles for a sailing monthly in the Netherlands. I did not only work with sailingboats, but also with motoryachts, fishing boats and even I worked some time on a tugboat as a mate.

Until recently, I worked in the wintertime in Holland as a free-lance director for radio and television and in the sailingseason in the Mediterranean as a captain on different boats. Now I live permanently on the island of Mallorca.

I am working in the yachting world for more than 13 years now, and I never had any damage with a boat under my command. I have a good reputation in this yachting world, a large network of contacts and I still love the work.

I also speak different languages: Dutch, English, German, French and I have a working knowledge of Spanish.

For more information, please contact me in Spain:
mobile telephone: (0034) 670 290 248
telephone: 971 72 41 45.
adress: C. de Sant Feliu 15 -2 07012 Palma de Mallorca. Balearics.

Shortlist of seagoing vessels:

Mosa : 9 meter motorsailer, my own boat from 1982 - 1986. Trips to England and France and inland waters of the Netherlands.

Valkelda : 17 meter schooner, sailtraining vessel, foundation owned. Charters to Belgium, England and France. Classic boat races in the Netherlands and France. 1986 - 1988.

Griffioen : 14 meter ketch, private owned. Delivery from Turkey to Portugal summer 1989.

Sirius : 36 meter lugger, chartercompany owned. Holiday trips around the Balearics. summer 1990.

Eolienne : 12 meter Gibsea yacht. Swiss training institute owned. Training trips from south coast of France to Italy and Spain. summer 1991 and 1992.

Esperanza II : 12 meter Hallberg Rassy, private owned. Delivery from Spain to Adriatic. spring 1992.

Grouse : 10 meter Sweden yacht. Delivery from Holland to the Channel Islands. summer 1993.

ZouZou : 7 meter pilot sloop, my own boat from 1993 until 1994. Dutch inland waters.

Jaska : 20 meter Little Harbour Yacht, private owned. Sailing trips around the Balearics, sailing races. Summer 1994 and spring 1995.

Lucia : 35 meter converted trader. Chartercompany owned. Overhaul and sailingtrips in the Dutch inland waters. summer 1995.

Concorde : 20 meter Moonen powerboat, private owned. Holiday trips in the western Mediterranean sea to France and Italy and the Balearics, based in Palma. 1996 - 2000.

Sovereign Sea : 35 meter sailing yacht. Oceancrossing from Palma to the Caribbean. Private owned. Winter 1998.

Victoria : 12 meter Dehler sailingyacht. Chartercompany owned. Holiday charter Balearics, autumn 1999.

Chantal : 12 meter Bavaria yacht. Chartercompany owned. Holiday charters Mallorca/Menorca june 2000.

Mon Cherie : 12 meter Bavaria yacht. Chartercompany owned. Holiday charter Mallorca. : september 2000.

Noco 1 : 15 meter Pfeil motoryacht, delivery from Palma to La Spezia in Italy, autumn 2000.

Marcolisa : 14 meter Challenger motoryacht, delivery from La Spezia Italy to Split in Croatia, autumn 2000.

Kooilust Mare : 28 meter Ferretti motoryacht, delivery from Puerto Banus in Spain to Lavagna Italy, januari 2001.