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 …
The forecast for Friday was not looking great, so the rally fleet split today. The larger boats (including us) headed straight across to Karlskrona, while the smaller boats headed to a small island (Tarno) to break the passage. With around 60 miles to do, I suggested a start time of …
Actually not much surging at all was involved on this trip. Having been delayed in departing from Ystad by the weather, we were a day behind heading off. Roger and Sue had arrived to join us and so we decided to spend the enforced lay day heading off on the …
