After a couple of lay days in Ornskoldsvik waiting for the wind to abate, we decided to leave early this morning. The forecast gave us some decent breeze early morning before it strengthened and turned south. Of course, it did none of this! When we got up at 5.30am, there wasn’t …
Since we awoke to a sunny morning we decided to do a walk around Trysunda. It isn’t a big (or high) island, but the person looking after the gasthamn recommended a few spots to walk to. He was right …. We followed a trail round to the north-eastern edge of …
One of the main attractions of Docksta is not the E4 road which runs past it, but the Skulesberget mountain just down the road. This is part of the Skuleskogen national park, which in turn is part of the UNESCO World heritage listed High Coast. In Alpine terms the High Coast …
After a short walk up the hill to see the view down on Ulvohamn harbour, we headed off across the bay (all of four miles) to the island of Mjalton. The bay we went to was on the east side opposite Ulvon island and is called Baggviken. We had to …
After a lovely walk round a nature trail in Bonhamn and a coffee at the cafe, we headed off for the long sail to Ulvohamn – all of 11.4 miles! The wind was actually in a great direction to try sailing off the jetty in Bonhamn, so we tried – …
The Swedish people at Haggvik were very friendly and recommended all sorts of things to us. The key thing though seemed to be the Mannamine Museum. So – the morning after arriving we headed up to the Museum first thing. it was only about ten minutes walk, but it turned …
At Harnosand south, several boats had appeared in the gasthamn without masts. It seems that the season has only just started for most of the Swedes! They were all being launched and would then put their masts up in the coming days. One of them had his mast up and …
After a couple of days in Sundsvall waiting for the weather and changing over crew, we finally decided to set off this morning. Airborne arrived to join us last night and we agreed to head off to Harnosand north Gasthamn. On the way, we decided to go to the chandlery …
The forecast was telling us that Monday was not set to be a classic day. With strong winds forecast and needing to be somewhere for crew to change over (Alan heading home and Ric heading out), we decided to do another long passage. So – another early start. This time …
An early start this morning. The plan (as much as there was one) was to start getting north and a possible destination was Hudiksvall. With this in mind, we left Bjornsundet at 04.50, dropping the mooring and heading out of the sound to the west. Pretty quickly we were able …
