I am starting to wonder if I should muse out loud that I am going to go the opposite way and try and double bluff the wind because predictably a north-westerly was forecast (which would have been perfect) and a west south westerly arrived (which wasn’t!). The wind seems to …
How wrong does a forecast have to be before it ceases to be a forecast? well – today’s was on the margin of that … The forecast was for a westerly of around 7-9 knots. The reality was a south westerly of around 18-22 knots – quite a margin of …
In the spirit of exploring Bornholm a little further, we headed north today to the north-western tip of the island – a small harbour called Hammerhavn. The trip was a short one – just 6 miles from Hasle and we just pulled the jib out and pottered up there. In …
We had to sort out a new courtesy flag today. We headed for Bornholm – an island roughly 20 miles south of the south-eastern corner of Sweden. It is an island which has been fought over for years – originally Danish, the Swedish conquered the island in 1645. However, they …
We woke up to a beautiful morning – sunny and a very light breeze, so decided to head off straight away from Hano, leaving at around 7.30am. We knew that the route would take us just through a 15 mile offshore exclusion zone which runs from just north of Simrishamn …
We decided again to make an early start. The forecast was good, but with the wind forecast from the west to south west, it was likely to be to windward all the way, so we thought we’d get a head start. Rather than go through the Hasslo bridge which only …
We decided to have a day off in Karlskrona today to look round the various museums. As a UNESCO world heritage listed city, it is an intriguing place. The listing relates to its naval heritage and it is the last remaining naval base for the Swedish Navy. As we came …
The pattern of the weather during a Swedish day seems to be a gradual calming down during the evening, relatively calm overnight and early morning and then an increasing wind from mid-morning onwards. Today’s forecast was for an exaggerated version of this with the wind increasing to around 25 knots …
The next few days in Kalmar were grotty and grey – the only colourful thing being vast numbers of teenagers in sailor hats and costumes driving around on the back of trucks with trees for company. Bizarre as this sounds, this was exactly what happened – two days in a …
After a few days stopping over in Borgholm to explore Öland Island, we headed off this morning to get to Kalmar to change over crew. Somehow though the wind seemed to know exactly where we wanted to go and it sat perfectly on the nose. Thirty degrees wither way and …
