A change of crew! Tashi and Felix arrived and they arrived in glorious sunshine. A perfect Scandinavian summer’s day with lots of sun, a gentle breeze and best of all, lots of smiling Swedes! When the sun gets out, the city atmosphere changes and everybody is out to soak up…
Victoria left yesterday and for a couple of days I am on my own again. It was a tricky start to her holiday on Akka though. My work interfered dramatically with her holiday time on Akka. I am glad that I managed to reduce the work so that we could…
The other day we had Peter and his two lovely kids on board. Peter and Maria used to live in Bisamberg and have moved to Sweden now. We met up at Vaxholm and sailed to Kalvholmen to have a picnic there. We also messed about in Nils and rounded up the…
The sunsets here are sooo relaxing. It is not just that the world makes itself ready for the night and everything goes quiet. There is no rush in doing so. It takes hours for the whole spectacle to pass. You can start making dinner, have your meal and do the…
It has been 40 years that the sink fitting lasted, but it gave up a few days ago. This meant that we had some water in the bilge and under the oven. Initially we could not work out from where it came and I was worried that the sea-cock made…
I bought a small hatch for the head last year. As I have an aversion to cutting holes into boats it stayed in it’s box until this year. But it is not only my live-saving fear of drilling holes, it is also politeness to my fellow sailors that has kept…
We made the short trip from Björkskär to Ängskär in perfect sunshine. There was not a lot of wind though (which was used by Victoria to get a “sizz”in). But as soon as we arrived the southerly breeze got-up (not a lot mind you) and we found it difficult to…
We are currently on Björkskär which is currently my favourite island. We are moored up on Skinnbroken, which is off the “normal” anchoring place on this Skär. As soon as you arrive you get this sense of out-of-space-landscape. The rocks are all very smooth and round and covered in orange lichen.…
Timing has not been good this year. I have a lot of work to do at the moment and getting the boat ready and some holiday in is a real struggle. I get up at 4 am at the moment to get as much done as possible until Victoria gets…
On Tuesday evening it was supposed to rain, so after Wolfgang had picked up his new sails in Svinninge, we motored round the corner to Vaxholm, capital, so the posters proclaim, of the archipelago. As things turned out, the rain changed its mind and we were given a beautiful sunset instead,…