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The Black VoltageLogbook

Notes from the boundary between reality and fiction. About seamanship, navigation, survival and writing the world of Black Voltage.

No writer’s block, just busy days

Teaching bushcraft lessons and workshops kept me busy. Divided Shores is moving closer to publication this month.

The manuscript is moving forward and the suspense is rising. No publication date has been set.

Captain Eddy de Graaf's quote, with nothing else about the story revealed.

Choosing a book title is a process of its own. The decision for book three has now been made: Beyond the Silence.

A quiet weekend, time to write and a story that is steadily taking shape.

The canon of all three novels was set years ago. Now the work is research, writing and bringing the story to life.

Six people sail from Pasajes. Meet Captain Eddy de Graaf and the crew with whom the story begins.

Why paper charts, compass, log and observation still belong to sound seamanship.

How can you estimate a vessel’s position when satellites and modern instruments fall silent?

My introduction: how working at sea, bushcraft and a mysterious veil of mist in the Gulf of Finland came together in Black Voltage.