View from Edam canoe house (first floor)
View from Edam canoe house (first floor)
The first participants have arrived
View from Edam canoe house (ground level)
James Tobin assembling Greenspeed tandem trike
Assembling the Greenspeed tandem trike
Preparing for the first night together (Edam)
Preparing for the first night together (Edam)
Breakfast in Edam
Café stop in Hoorn
Lunch stop along the Zuiderzee dike (between Hoorn and Enkhuizen)
Secret pirate meeting on the dike
Spy camera zooming in...
Lunch stop along the Zuiderzee dike (between Hoorn and Enkhuizen)
Vehicle parking at Enkhuizen Zuiderzeemuseum
inner court of Zuiderzeemuseum
Erik being interviewed by journalist from TV Noord-Holland
Arrival at Dekker's residence, where we will pass the 2nd night
Inside the barn of Dekker's removal firm
Laptop computers grow here as if they were mushrooms...
Parking
Saskia sleeping in front of the B2B tandem
Darkness falling in the barn
Bicycles form the walls of our private sleeping rooms
Nico preparing his bed
Inside of the Aegir
Inside of the Aegir
On deck of the Aegir
On deck of the Aegir
Captain Jaap Gomes' place
Aegir heading Northwest
Corridor below deck
Lining up for pulling a rope to lift the big sail
Pull harder!
Time for a rest
A perfect succession of effort and relaxation
Kate, the captain's assistent (from Australia)
The captain: Jaap Gomes
We plan to set the ship on the wad. Kate measures the sea depth.
Approaching the dry sea bottom
Kate makes contact to the sea floor
Touchdown
We can leave the ship with this ladder
Walter Krenz is the first to dare
The first steps are deep in the soft mud, but then you feel stable sand under the feet
One after one we leave the Aegir for a short walk
Mexican dinner presented to us by Henk and Monique van der Woerdt from Nazca recumbent bike factory
We do several attempts to get all participants and their vehicles on one photo.
Looking at De Wieden from the wet side. Marcel van Eijk gives the first canoeing lesson.
Koos van der Knaap prefers yellow
Nico thinks white goes faster.
Saskia knows that's not true.
Marco Louwerse breaking his own off road record
Marcel van Eijk shows us that a canoe is so stable that you can stand in it.
Markjan Bastian ploughing through the water-lilies
Erik and Saskia's tandem had a blow-up front tyre. It has to be replaced.
The ECO-trip tent circle at 't Oppertje during Cycle Vision