Sipriz Expedition
In spring of this year I sailed a traditional wooden boat from Haiti to Florida. For details and pictures click on Sipriz Expedition. See also the feature articles in Soundings, Outside. Ocean Navigator and The Miami Herald
For pictures of my sailing voyage to Puerto Rico, Hispaniola and Cuba, click here. We also kept a blog and updated it from every island we visited. Click Log of the Sea Scout.
Earlier we sailed to the Bahamas, Bermuda, Labrador and Greenland. Click on our pictures and on the Greenland Log.
For English synopsis, excerpt and reviews of my novel ‘The Smuggler of the Exuma’s’ click here.
For the independent US Web Site Cuba Cruising Net I wrote an aticle about our sailing voyage to the island. Click on:
My latest book is a collection of American stories. The title reads ‘The Madmen of Tenakee’. Copies, in Dutch, can be ordered from the publisher Nieuw Amsterdam.
“One of the best books
of 2007” (Trouw)
“A writers’ writer” (HP)
“The New World as poetic spectacle” (Trouw)
“In the classic Raymond Carver tradition” (De Tijd)
A new edition of my novel ‘Noordtij” (North Tide) came out late last year.
From the cover: ‘As the Arctic night descends, suspicion, demoralization and tragic mistakes aboard the polar ship Gerrit de Veer lead to a shocking dénouement.’
“Breathtaking (...) a fascinating story.” (AD Magazine)
For information in English click on North Tide.
