A final season in the Baltic
Our season ended without further excitement. Mary proved to be excellent crew, and the weather presented an opportunity for her to try out just about every condition. We even had a barbecue night on anchor and a swim. Melodrama was put to bed in the big shed in Augustenborg and in the weeks following had […]
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Finally we had weather to allow us to sail on towards home base. Our friend Mary was to join us for a week, and we had to find a new place to pick her up since we were way off our route by now. It was tricky enough, there had to be a good train […]
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Day 3 in Hesnaes. It’s turned out to be quite a good choice for a safe haven, given the limited options. We found a berth between wooden posts and had the prescience to drop four lines over them instead of the usual two. That way we could cross two lines and stabilise the boat once […]
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Severe storm Antoni is on the way and will be wreaking havoc in a few days. Everyone knows it, and everyone was planning where they will go for safety when it arrives. All the chat on the dock was about destinations for shelter. It was already quite windy, and the seas were very lumpy and […]
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It’s Monday, and we are in Karlskrona in the rain. I do like this place, and right at the head of our pontoon is a sweet bronze statue of Biskop Morski; the legend is that he was caught in a net and offered as a gift to the Polish king, who freed him when he […]
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The Radar receiver has stopped working. We’ve checked all the terminals at the base of the mast, and they seem fine. That leaves a small possibility that the radar cable is faulty, perhaps due to water ingress, or more likely and more expensively, that the radar unit is faulty. The chandler in Kalmar kindly lent […]
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We’ve had a great cruise from Nynashamn to Kalmar over the last two weeks with regular crew member Brendan, wriggling round tight rocks, and a nice mix of anchorages and lively harbours. The Swedes just love their classic cars, and we often come across large rallies in town harbours. Once we saw a DeLorean, still […]
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It all seems a long time ago now, but it shouldn’t go unblogged that we had a couple of great weeks just chilling with good friends. Mary and Ian, our regular crew, came during a heatwave, and we spent most of the time in light breezes and pretty anchorages, swimming with fish nibbling, and enjoying […]
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After the eventful week in Waxholm, and finally getting the boat back on the road, we set off towards the Åland Islands and Finland. We had missed the rally, but we had friends to meet up with in Finland. It wouldn’t really be possible to explore the Gulf of Bothnia as we’d planned, but it […]
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Unbelievably, our diver Björn arrived later in the afternoon, and after checking the bottom of the harbour for a good half hour, found the prop, undamaged, and with all parts complete! How lucky is that! Next task was for Mats to find a yard that could lift us out, mast up, hold us in a […]
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…where you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave … Friday. There was a good chance that the sea water pump would arrive with Mats the service engineer at his boatyard today, so he suggested that we cruise over there, a massive 3 mile passage, and he could fit it […]
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Waxholm, we are still only in Waxholm. Shortly after arriving here last Thursday we gauged that a little weep from a seal on the engine cooling water pump was rapidly turning into a bit of a gush. Given that there was a local Volvo service engineer, we got him to take a look. His recommendation […]
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