I have hot days, wonderful sun-sets, 25 degree water temperature in my mind and can still vividly remember the headlines about forest fires in Sweden from last year. Let me tell, this year is very different. We are having the odd nice day, we even had some hot days but…
Having spent the night being lashed by rain and jolted about by wind, we woke up to a very calm morning and even some blue sky. I went for a stroll on the island – Wolfgang having gone for a longer and damper one the previous evening – past the…
The internet is a wonder and I sometimes feel that it must have been very similar for people in the 19th century staring at steam-engines – simply a miracle. Today I got a call while I was about 10 miles out to sea. The mobile just rang but could not connect the…
Actually, I was very happy indeed to be in Hudik last night when the wind got up to the point where I couldn’t type properly because the boat was moving about so much. Wolfgang looked out and saw that the buoy we were attached to was completely underwater, so he…
Glada Hudik! – that’s what big banners say as you walk into town from the harbour at Hudiksvall, but the slogan rings rather hollow. Hudiksvall’s great days were the 1900s when it was a hugely prosperous commercial centre, and the remains of that prosperity can be seen in the magnificent…
We haven’t been updating the Blog quite recently and there is a very good reason for it. We are having “Zauberwetter”, “Kaiserwetter” or whatever you want to call it. It is just a “scorcher” day after day and almost too much sun. So here a brief summary of our last…
Except it wasn’t really night sailing because it never gets dark this far north. The sky still had a red glow from the sunset when it started to get a new red glow from the dawn and there was no point where the skipper couldn’t read the charts. The huge…
We spent the day in Öregrund as I had to do some work-work and the weather was not nice anyway. So we stayed in the guest-harbour for the whole day. Victoria lounged about and I spent all day in front of the notebook. We did find time for a little…
Northwards! We’ve never been outside the Stockholm archipelago before (apart from our brief trip to the Alands in the folk boat) but it turns out the archipelago just keeps on going, even when it no longer belongs to Stockholm. We’re a good 40 sea miles north of Arholma – a…
Victoria had a very busy day today and I fell really bad after a month of veggying about on Akka. First she got up and had a swim! I am not joking, she actually got into the water! Not more than 16 degrees but did that stop her, hell no.…