The weather cleared today and so it was sunny. Unfortunately the other half of the equation we want for sailing – wind – wasn’t there so we ended up motoring all morning. From Nynashamn we headed north with our eventual target being Dalarö. On the way, we headed past Älvsnabben. …
There are lots of adjectives to describe the weather. Possible candidates for this include rainy, wet, sunny, clear, bright, humid, dry, arid, frigid, foggy, windy, stormy, breezy, windless, calm, still and so on …. Today was a 50% day – a day when we could justifiably use around half these …
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 …
Another jump north today. To ensure we get to Nyköping by Saturday we decided to head straight to Oxelösund today. So we weighed anchor at 0725 and headed off – once the anchor had been cleaned. The windshifts during the night had ensured that the anchor was well dug in …
We have decided to head north fairly quickly to pick up our next crew from Nyköping rather than the original plan of Västervik. So we left Loftahammar fairly promptly at 8am heading north. This being archipelago though, it meant that sometimes we headed north, sometimes east and even a little …
The solid part of Visby (the land) is lovely and the watery part is nice when the wind is blowing from any direction other than SW. For virtually all the days we were there, it blew from the SW! When that happens the breakwaters are almost completely open to the …
Byxelkrok is the best jumping off point for Visby – a total trip of around 45 miles. We decided to get on and go and left Byxelkrok at 0520 and all started promisingly with the wind building nicely to a sailing breeze. As we passed Norra Udde lighthouse on the …
The wind was very light this morning; light enough that it verged on non-existent and as we left Borgholm there wasn’t even enough to justify putting the main up. The water took on that oily, glassy calm that comes with zero breeze and so, wanting to at least arrive the …
Confusingly our next stop is called Borgholm – just a few days after we left the Danish island of Bornholm! Borgholm is a small holiday town a bit over half way up the Kalmarsund on the Öland island side. Öland island has always been favoured by the Swedish Royal Family …
One of the issues with deciding to start each post with an alliteration is that place names in some countries start with weird letters. Sweden is a case in point with lots of place names starting with ‘k’. English verbs starting with ‘k’ on the other hand are few and …
