One of the issues with deciding to start each post with an alliteration is that place names in some countries start with weird letters. Sweden is a case in point with lots of place names starting with ‘k’. English verbs starting with ‘k’ on the other hand are few and …
The Swedish Hallberg Rassy beside us at Utklippan wanted to leave at 9am, so that made our decision easy; we left at 08.50. On a lovely sunny morning we left (slowly) through the eastern entrance we had come in through and hoisted the sails. Again, the wind was teasing us, …
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 …
We decided to leave Kristianopel early – around 7am – to aim to get to Kalmar around lunchtime. We managed to slide out of our berth quietly thanks to the Danish boat next door going at the same time and for the first couple of hours had a pleasant motor …
A short and murky trip today. In complete contrast to yesterday, today dawned grey and murky. After blowing a healthy breeze all night, we were hopeful of a fast downwind ride to Kritianopel. We set off just after 9am with high expectations, pulled the jib out just outside Utklippan and …
