Peanster Ee

We are in the middle of Friesland now, tied up on a little jetty on the banks of a lake called "Peanster Ee". It's unlikely that you'll find it on a general map, although Google Earth might to it for you.

We left Langweer after an interesting meeting: someone knocked on the boat who transpired to be one of the previous owners of 'Onbekommerd', he sold it to our friends Ed and Elly in 1993! The world is small indeed: he was lying just outside Langweer with his current ship, which is also a Valkvlet but a bit bigger and recognised Onbekommerd as he walked past to buy his newspaper and walk his dog.

As it was time for a bit of 'tying up in the wild', we decided to go to the lakes around the Frisian city of Grou. Remember that Friesland has 11 cities, which are cities not because of size but because of city rights which were bestowed upon them several centuries ago!

The lakes around Grou are very popular and there was a regatta going on. The boats were passing our mooring place (just a jetty next to a field, no 'facilities' at all) within less that a hundred metres.

Some are quite big traditional yachts:






Others are small versions of that:






And then there is the 12 foot dinghy, an Olympic class in 1928 when the Olympics were held in Amsterdam:






All in all, we had a very enjoyable afternoon, watching all of this.
Night is falling now and it's very quiet. There are a few boats on similar jetties, a few hundred meters away. But apart from that, it's very quiet. Nice!
The plan is to stay here until Monday morning and then move on to Grou itself to get provisions.