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,…
Akka has new sails! Or shall I say 1 new sail at the moment. The foot of the main is too long! It is not much but it definitely is not right. Bengt from North-Sails offered to replace/fix it but he also suggested to make some amendments to the boom as…
We are afloat! Akka was lifted in yesterday morning and all went well. The starter battery needed replacing but that was done in a few minutes. Afterwards we made our way to Akersberga to get some shopping done and to meet North-Sails to take delivery of the new sails. But,…
We are back on Akka and we are finally online! Yours truly did an amazing thing while packing the office stuff. I managed to hide the Telia SIM card-holder which has the PIN for the SIM on it. So, when we arrived on Saturday I fired up my notebook to inform…
It started as a luke-warm early summer and got much worse in July but came up trumps in August. This is how the summer 20115 can be summarized. Especially July was really awful and Victoria managed to come for the worst part pf it, which meant that she hardly got…
Akka has been covered and is almost ready for the winter. It seems sad to see the boat so out of here element, as if she were in a cage. But we will be back and are already making plans for 2016!
It is called on-the-hard when a boat is laid up on land and Akka is on the hard again for the next 8 months. All went well lifting her out and since the weather is still fine I have plenty of time to tidy up and to cover her for…
Akka was lifted out of the water earlier today and I was a pretty nervous to see the damage that I did to her when we hit that rock last week. I did check everything from inside the boat during the last few days and found nothing that indicated anything –…