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…
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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…
Action
We had a bit of wind over the last few days and got some wonderful sailing in. Today we reefed down to the first reef and we headed into the wind at 5,5+ knots. Wonderful. Akka really likes the wind from the front, she just goes at it, whereas when…
We’re only here for the World Cup
After a really lovely sail this morning, skipping along over white-puffed waves at, quite literally, a rate of knots (just over 5 to be exact), decided it was time to look for somewhere to tie up for the night because stiff north-easterly winds were forecast. It turns out that…
From Land’s End to John O’Groats
Well, actually from Landsort to Arlanda, which are respectively the southernmost and northermost islands in the archipelago. Yesterday we made landfall on Öja, where Landsort is situated and were surprised to discover that what looks like a long streak of rock on the map (4km long and 500m wide) is…