The eerie sound of fog horns
Today we have some fog (already clearing) and I can hear the big-fuckers (enormous cruising ships) in the distance. Eerie, I would not want be out in the fog.
A gentle day
The early bird catches the … gentle wind. I was off at 8am and had a wonderful sail to Furusund. There was a gentle 2 Bft andI had the Baltic all to myself, or so it seemed. No sailing boats, no motor boats and the big-fuckers came only out at 11am. With…
28 miles – 50 tacks
I am knackered. I saild from 9am till 5:30pm non stop and am absolutely knackered. It was a beautiful day with very little wind to start with and I mostly sat around at Saxafjärden. Only at about midday the wind picked up and we had a perfect 2-3 Bft, unfortunatley…
My universe
I have been on Akka now for 8 weeks! 2 months is a long time to spend in one place and it is strange that I don’t feel locked in. If I had to spend 2 months in a room of about 3m x 5m I would go crazy. But…
Messing about on a boat
I do love messing about on the boat and let me give you a quick run-down of my activities yesterday. Victoria left on Friday morning and since there was not much wind yesterday and my tendonitis (in German this has the lovely word “Sehnenscheidenentzündung”) has become worse, I decided to…
An my own again
Victoria has left today and Akka and I are on our own again 🙁 It feels strange to have to do everything on my own and I actually needed some serious help getting out of Vasahamnen. I made a mistake and wanted to reverse and to do a “back-lefty” before…
A wonderful sailing day
We had a wonderful day sailing today! We left rather late Gällnö and headed for Kalvholmen, just west of Grinda. The wind was against us but we enjoyed creaming along between 5 and 6 knots all the way – all day. The weather was a bit overcast, but still T-Shirt…
In which we are crap pirates
The wind finally shifted around from the north in the night and we decided to make use of it to go out to Björkskär in the outer archipelago in the hope of seeing some seals as well as the eerily exposed outer islands. We zipped along in the sunshine at…
Schwalberl auf der Nationalen
As we said before, that Austrian flag is a great way to get to talk to the locals. “Where are you from”? “What flag is that”? “Have you sailed all the way from Austria”? are the most common phrases we hear. Ant it also gives us the chance to get…
Mac the Knife
We left Utö this morning in brisk winds with the threat of rain (threatened by the weather forecast, plus a general cloudy greyness). In the event, though, the sun came out and though we had to tack north against the wind, we made good progress and decided to skip the…