A short final trip today. We have decided to keep the boat in Hoorn for the winter in case of a no-deal Brexit, so this morning we headed off early from Enkhuizen. Once through the lock (which we went straight into) we found a nice gentle breeze of around 10 …
Our canalside stopover was very peaceful for the night and we started off again just before 9am to try and catch the first bridge as soon as it opened. We did that and the bridges were then very slick for the day – we scarcely waited for more than 5 …
Who needs two sails when one will do! Today we did 67.6 miles from Vejro to Laboe (just near Kiel) under jib only and averaged 6.5 knots. This included a 50 minute start to the passage where we had to head butt the waves again at about 4 knots OG …
Who needs bouncy castles? All you need is a nice force 5 bang on the nose and a nice shallow Danish sea and you can bounce up and down perpetually for hours …. That is what we got today. We set off just after 8.30am, but it was still blowing …
At last – we escaped …. Ever since Ric arrived on July 1st, the wind blew and blew. Every day was forecast at well over 20 knots and most were substantially more than that. Occasionally people would escape from the gasthamn (generally this involved a fairly intimate ritual with other …
Well – just for once the forecast was right! It had forecast very little wind all day and sure enough, there was very little. We managed a 45 minute spinnaker run shortly after leaving Gislövs läge, but the wind gradually faded and died, leaving us motoring around Skanör and Falsterbo. …
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 …
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 …
