We started off with a car trip from the current camping place Corfwater to Andijk, with the whole family. Since we had Eric (5mo) with us, I chose a day with an especially settled wind forecast. Around 12, we set sail on a mirror-like lake, with no special direction. It was a question of if the wind will pick up at all - it was extremely windstill, in spite of the current wind forecast of 2-3Bft. When we started to have a light breeze, I was very confused on where the breeze is coming from, and it took a while to realize the wind-kicker wasn't working properly, at least on some wind directions. It was coming from NE, even if the forecast was from NW. We set course to de Kreupel in a close reach, but we had to hand steer the whole way since the previous repair I did on Susie didn't hold. It took us a couple of hrs to come in sight and reach of the island. Dan got bored quite soon after, so we've sent him to the V-berth to set up his matchbox car paradise. This kept him busy for the best part of an hour, after which he started complaining that his tummy is hurting, then head, and we soon thereafter realized he got seasick for the first time of his life. So we arranged a temporary pillow bed in the cockpit and he slept it off. Eric was the whole time in the cockpit as well, in the basket of his stroller. Once we got close enough to the island, we hove to for a cup of tea and then started in the reciprocal course back to Andijk, this time on a beam reach. Eric started complaining - probably his tummy or his teeth - while Dan played the whole time with the pillows in the cockpit, forming all sorts of buildings out of them. In front of the harbour entrance we hove to again, out the sails down, and Dan motored us all the way to the entrance by bearing the middle windmill from the three. No problem mooring, but I discovered -again- a lot of diesel in the bilge. This becomes a real pain.
All in all a real enjoyable experience and a nice day out sailing with the fam. Not sure how it'd look like with a real 3Bft or higher, tho..
Total: 1574nm, 182nm single-handed