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 …
After a lovely evening at Alo, we set off a little more promptly this morning just after 9am as we had around 38 miles to do. As soon as we were out of the Alo entrance channel, the jib came out and we managed to sail, albeit quite slowly at …
After shopping and generally being lazy in Figeholm, we set off just after 11am to head for Alo. The wind was light and while we managed an hour or so of sailing, most of the 20 mile passage was under power. However, the weather was beautiful and the route through …
Winds coming from three-quarters of the compass rose and between 2 and 32 knots in strength, rain, thunder, lightning and bright sunshine with temperatures of around 26o – today was varied in nature! We set off from Borgholm around 9am and motored out of the harbour into winds gusting around …
The CA Rally finished today and we spent this morning looking round Kalmar and particularly Kalmar Castle. We had a great guide doing the English tour and giving us extensive details about how the Royals lived in Renaissance times. We even found out in detail about the Royal mistresses and …
