Having dropped Fiona off for her flight yesterday, we set off promptly this morning to start our way south. We had decided to head for an anchorage called Gronskarsfladden – it looked good in the pilot guide, so we hoped for the best. First though we had to creep our …
The plan for today was to head into Stockholm first thing to drop Fiona for her flight, so we started about 8.30am and once again had to motor all the way with the wind directly on the nose. Though it was a little grey, we had a nice look round …
A return visit to Vaxholm today. The logical route back to Stockholm takes us through Vaxholm, but rather than go the main ferry channel through we decided to go the scenic way which is around 5 miles longer. We also did a slight detour to take us through Paradiset again …
A change of plan (again …) today. The weather forecast was not great for crossing between Aland and Stockholm over the coming few days, so we decided to head over to Stockholm a little earlier than anticipated. The weather looked OK for a crossing, so we decided to bypass Mariehamn …
Today we continued our Åland historical binge by exploring Kastelholm Slot (Castle). It was a relatively short run (14.2 miles in 2 hours and 45 minutes) from Bomarsund to Kastelholm and we had to motor all the way with very light winds. We arrived in Kastelholm around midday after going …
Actually, not much bombing at all took place on this trip in terms of pace. We left Kumlinge after a night disturbed by the mix of vodka and a Russian charter boat (registered under a Montenegran flag for convenience!). We left around 9am and motored for half an hour or …
From our overnight anchorage at Sälsö, we headed north today up to the island of Kumlinge. There were various possible ways to go, but given a wind direction just east of north, we decided to go right round the top of all the islands and then head south a couple …
After a decisive start to the day, we left Korpoström at 7.30am with a firm plan to head for Remarhamn on Kumlinge. Within half an hour we had become indecisive. The wind, forecast to be north-east, was between north and north-west. This would have meant motoring quite a bit of …
After an early morning cup of tea on the rocks, we headed off on a short trip today. We decided to head north ready to then head back into the Åland Islands and Korpoström seemed like a good stopping point, so we headed back there. Before we started though (you …
From Rosala, we decided to head due west. We managed to sail for around two and a half hours, but the wind just then died and headed us, so for the next couple of hours we had to motor. The wind then returned, but bang on the nose and through …
