After a very peaceful night at Ringson, we headed across to Fifang. With northerlies forecast, we decided that the southern harbour on Fifang would offer good shelter and so followed Airborne across to there. We had a great sail across under jib only and only took the sails in just …
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 …
At last – we are back in the water and have functioning sails and engine. So, what better than to go out and test them? From the Oxelösund Fiskehamn, we headed out around lunchtime and off out to clear water to test the sails. The sun shone and the wind …
Our 2016 cruise was from Amsterdam to Oxelösund. We took two months over the cruise to give us time to explore on the way rather than it just being a passage. We headed through the Markermeer and Ijsselmeer to Lemmer and then into the standing mast route. The original plan …
The final and shortest trip of the season – from Oxelosund Gasthamn to Oxelosunds Batvarv. The last couple of days have been spent packing everything up. Sails off, halyards moused, food sorted and either eaten (preferable) or thrown away (not so easy). We also drained the tanks, pumped and cleaned …
With Oxelsounds Batvarv having provisionally agreed to winter the boat, we headed over there first thing in the morning to make sure they didn’t have time to change their mind! It was a short run. Unfortunately, although there was a nice breeze, it was bang on the nose through the …
An early start today. Pat and Stephen wanted to get to Nykoping promptly to pick up some new crew and we wanted to ensure that Jilly was in plenty of time for her flight. So we left Arkosund just after 7.30am. After fuelling we headed straight for Nykoping, arriving at …
Today was another fairly short run. We left Harstena around 9.40am after an early morning walk and a swim back to the boat for Anne. Initially we had to motor to get back to the main inshore passage, but once heading back north, we managed to sail for a while. …
Our aim was, in company with Airborne, to get to Nykoping around the 29th June. So, having come quite a distance north in the last few days, today we just did 15.5 miles up to Harstena. We left Boko just after 10am and had a lovely sail nearly all the …
