The last trip this morning … Apart from a very short run to drop the boat over at the boatyard on Saturday, that is it for the season. For many Swedes the season is just beginning. They tend to come out to play a week or two after midsummer, but …
The end is nigh …. We are heading gradually towards Oxelosund to lay the boat up for the season, but we decided to have another couple of days in Nyköping. So we left Trosa early morning. Forecasts had been hanging over us again and we knew that thunderstorms were coming …
With Hugh and Liz on board we headed off from Nyköping to Ringson – 15.3 miles. We sailed, under jib only the whole way, weaving through the islands finally coming out to the meteor crater beside Stendörren nature reserve and from there into Ringson. Once there we anchored and headed …
After a murky grey day in Nyköping where we decided that the nice warm interior of the boat was preferable to standing out in the elements (and there were plenty of elements), we moved on today. The forecast was better and, though it was a little grey to start with …
A short passage this morning, but with light winds it took us nearly three hours to do the 10 miles from Oxelösund to Nyköping. Nevertheless a lovely sail from just outside the Oxelösund Gasthamn all the way down the channel to Nyköping. The sails only came down ten minutes before …
