History – EurMacs

1916-1960 Historic Photographs

The Dutch have a strongly developed sense of patrimony, recording details of past events. The town of Alkmaar has an extensive photo archive and when we searched this we found several photos of Catharina Elisabeth. Many of these we identified by the features we recognise…

— By Helm and CrewNovember 3, 2015

Meet the Verwers

Apologies we are so far behind, but we are making progress – albeit slowly. Meeting We left our tale with a tap on the wheelhouse window. As we stepped out of the wheelhouse onto the aft deck we could see Trien Verwer draping a large blue banner…

— By Helm and CrewJune 27, 2015

Cheese and Catharina

If the Dutch are about anything, they are about cheese. Lisette claims that “Kaas”, the Dutch word for cheese, is the first Dutch word that she learned. Certainly, it is central to Dutch life. Some of the oldest evidence of cheese-making is found in Holland, and Julius Caesar…

Let’s start at the very beginning…

Let’s start at the very beginning – it’s a very good place to start No, this page is not about “The Sound of Music”, although we did spend some time in Salzburg while on Catharina Elisabeth – on a one week side trip – and…