Jeez, it’s boiling here. We had over 32 degrees at 10 am and it went up to over 35 inside the cabin during the day. I pottered about all day (cleaned the cockpit lockers and polished the deck gelcoat (probably for the first time in decades) and had to take…
… but there are horseflies in paradise. Everything is as it should be apart from quite a lot of pesky horseflies. Annoying. (Maybe it has to do with being an ex-catholic. Sure as hell there would be suffering in a catholic paradise) On the other hand it was a good day…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…