The wind was very light this morning; light enough that it verged on non-existent and as we left Borgholm there wasn’t even enough to justify putting the main up. The water took on that oily, glassy calm that comes with zero breeze and so, wanting to at least arrive the …
Confusingly our next stop is called Borgholm – just a few days after we left the Danish island of Bornholm! Borgholm is a small holiday town a bit over half way up the Kalmarsund on the Öland island side. Öland island has always been favoured by the Swedish Royal Family …
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 …
Using Borgholm as a base we spent a few days exploring Öland Island. For a couple of days we hired a car and the rest of the time wandered around the Borgholm area checking out its royal connections. Öland Island is the second largest Swedish island (Gotland is nearly twice …
An inauspicious start today. After a night of fairly torrential rain and thunderstorms we thought the weather was set to clear this morning, so we headed off. All went really well for the first 400 metres or so until we were starting to go past the main port at Oskarshamn …
Winds coming from three-quarters of the compass rose and between 2 and 32 knots in strength, rain, thunder, lightning and bright sunshine with temperatures of around 26o – today was varied in nature! We set off from Borgholm around 9am and motored out of the harbour into winds gusting around …
The CA Rally finished today and we spent this morning looking round Kalmar and particularly Kalmar Castle. We had a great guide doing the English tour and giving us extensive details about how the Royals lived in Renaissance times. We even found out in detail about the Royal mistresses and …
