Calais, Frankrig

We have arrived in Calais, France 🇫🇷

We ended up sailing toward France a day earlier due to a strong gale hitting the Netherlands, which we managed to sail away from.
Even so, we still ended up in 15 m/s winds and 2–3 meter waves out in the middle of the sea, but we handled it very well and are now safely in France 😊

Just before reaching the harbor in Calais, our rudder got stuck. Very carefully, we managed to maneuver the boat into the harbor, after which a thorough inspection began. Shown in the pictures:
1: Lars and Stefan inspecting the rudder
2: Lars has put on the wetsuit
3: Lars examining the rudder more closely
4: Gustav pulls out the knife 🔪
5: Lars cuts the rope free from the rudder
6: I pull up the plastic bottle that had a rope tied around it, which had tangled itself into our rudder

Everyone is okay, and tomorrow we continue toward Dover in England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

The Whiskey Tour Starts

The Whiskey Tour Starts After picking up our new crew member (Linus Korsholm) in Belfast, we left Ireland for the second (and last time) to head for our main destination: Scotland. Apart from being a very kind and welcoming people they have an unusual number of distilleries producing a great

Belfast; Titanic, the Troubles and riots

From the Isle of Man, we had a short and pleasant trip to Belfast. The sun was shining, the wind was fair, entering the huge harbour went smoothly, and we got an excellent berth right in the centre of the city. From our berth, we could see the very place

Isles of Man

After spending almost a week in Dublin, we saw that there would be a small window in the seemingly never ending streak of low pressure gales coming in from the west and moving easterly across the Irish sea. Weather forecasts said that winds would be up to 8 m/s

Gone, but not forgotten

En: This is a day of grieving, because on the way into the harbour on Isle of Man 🇮🇲 a fender was lost to the sea. It was put on the deck and immediately after letting go, it rolled down and landed perfectly under the railing, from where it rolled directly

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The Whiskey Tour Starts

Belfast; Titanic, the Troubles and riots

Isles of Man

Gone, but not forgotten