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      • GBCA Icicle Regatta #1
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      • Replacing all 3 fuel filters
      • LYC Bay Cup 1 (March 2 2013)
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      • LYC Heald Bank Regatta April 20, 2013
      • GBCA Conundrum Regatta May 4th 2013
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    • Bay Cup 1
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      • Presto (2)

Maarten J. van Hasselt

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Bracing for the winds of change. Here I am close to Newport RI with a nice sailing breeze. A sailor would be ill advised not to take the winds into account. One can of course weather the storm and beat against the prevaling wind. Planning ahead will make for smoother sailing and will keep the crew happier.

What about the flag in the header.

This site was built in the aftermath of Hurricane "Ike" that fully hit Houston in the night of September 12-13, 2008.
There was not a lot to do after all offices were closed so I started this web site. This is pre-dominantly nautical, and an easy way to share pictures with others. I am from a very nautical family from The Netherlands. My great-grandfather started a dredging company in Holland, my grandfather perfected the bucket-dredger, and my father ran the family shipyard on the river Rhine. 
 

I learned sailing from my deceased father Jan, a great, perfectionist, yachtsman and shipbuilder. My mother lives aboard a 75ft converted coastal vessel in Enkhuizen The Netherlands.

From rigging my brother’s diapers to a bamboo mast for the family yacht’s dingy some 46 years ago to giving sailing lessons in classical Dutch yachts I went on to skipper my father’s 45ft replica of a Bristol Channel Cutter mainly in Scandinavia.  

Working life started and I owned a series of smaller boats: a Hobie cat in Paraguay, a Dart in Portugal and a Marieholm 24 in Spain. After sailing many different yachts belonging to others we bought a Bristol 40 in Houston, we lost Joan II in Ike. In 2010 we acquired a yawl "Joan III" an Alberg 37.

Joan I is of course the one and only Joan, my wife, support, coach and so much more.

Our 2 children follow our sailing adventures with appropriate astonishment.