Best laid plans
2023年9月16日, スウェーデン ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
My original idea was to depart early and go to Stenskäret (the island I stopped by last time, when it was raining cats and dogs). But eventually I left Luleå just before noon, and decided to not goもっと詳しく
Christ with a Kite!
2023年9月17日, スウェーデン ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
I managed to have an “early” start today, and left Junkön at 7:05 and was under sails 20 min after. The first part was relatively easy, navigating around Junkön and exiting Luleå's archipelago.もっと詳しく
Not so quiet a day
2023年9月18日, スウェーデン ⋅ 🌬 13 °C
Bjuröklubb! Finally, I managed to reach today's destination! This wasn't the relaxing day I had hoped for!
It all started rather well. I even saw a seal as I was leaving furuögrund who once theyもっと詳しく
Staying put...
2023年9月19日, スウェーデン ⋅ 🌧 14 °C
Today, I missed the opportunity to advance further. I was knackered after yesterday's afternoon and Sunday's tough sailing, so I got up kinda late. By that time, the forecast was showing too much windもっと詳しく
Ratan-tan-tan
2023年9月20日, スウェーデン ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
Today started a bit bumpy but got calmer and calmer as the day went on.
I waited a bit before leaving because I was hoping it would allow me to slip in after the strong winds had started to move awayもっと詳しく
Umeå, here we go
2023年9月21日, スウェーデン ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
Today, I was ready early but I had to wait a bit. There was a thick fog all around. When it cleared a bit (around 9:30) I set off.
It was all rather ok albeit not comfy: there was a lot of swell andもっと詳しく
Hiding in Umeå
2023年9月22日, スウェーデン ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
The official Swedish forecast organisation issued a warning for where I am and where I wanted to go.
So I stay where I was and waited for the foul weather to pass. I made a laundry and realised thereもっと詳しく
Welcome to the theme park!
2023年9月23日, スウェーデン ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
I left Umeå this morning when the mist dissipated a bit. The wind was much stronger than forecasted, of course... I started on the engine for a while to get out of the narrow paths. Then the funもっと詳しく
The ghost of Ulvönhamn
2023年9月24日, スウェーデン ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
Today I left my buoy around 8am in quite contrasting conditions compared to yesterday's afternoon. The wind was barely blowing and had done a 180°. The sea however was less strong but still comingもっと詳しく
View from the top
2023年9月25日, スウェーデン ⋅ 🌬 13 °C
First off, this morning, I went on a small local exploration to get a nice view of the harbour entrance. After that, I went back to the boat to make doubly sure of the cables…
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Pour commencerもっと詳しく
Walking around
2023年9月25日, スウェーデン ⋅ 🌧 14 °C
After I had made sure of the boat, I went for a longer walk, which took me a bit here and there on the island. I reached a place near Norrbyn where the water was so clear, I'd have loved to swim if itもっと詳しく
Reef it, shake it, rince and repeat...
2023年9月26日, スウェーデン ⋅ 🌙 14 °C
The wind blew all night long but was quieter this morning, the sea… not so much however.
Yet there was enough wind to get out and start sailing. After an hour or two, the wind picked up a bit, butもっと詳しく
Reef, shake, get washed, rince & repeat
2023年9月27日, スウェーデン ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
This was a tiring day. Lots of rain, lots of waves, some fog, then a lot of fog, some wind, no wind, lots of wind, meh wind, ... the only consistency: wind in my face.
Not much to see, because ofもっと詳しく
Pit stop in Stocka
2023年9月28日, スウェーデン ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
Heavy fog to start the day, so after waking up really early, I had to wait for a bit before I could go. When I did, there wasn't much wind to play with. So it was a bit on and off. I even had to runもっと詳しく
Forced pit stop in Hudiksvall
2023年9月29日, スウェーデン ⋅ 🌙 15 °C
Well, after a nice start, the day as far as sailing is concerned came to an abrupt end when after tacking to port, I saw something strange with the mast. It was bending… After a second of beingもっと詳しく
Interlude
2023年10月5日, スウェーデン ⋅ ☀️ 8 °C
While I was forced to stay here, I took the opportunity to attend a blues jam in Gävle. I took the train back and forth for the evening, met a student from my harmonica school, listened to greatもっと詳しく
Frosty preparations
2023年10月6日, スウェーデン ⋅ ☁️ 3 °C
So this morning, I woke up to the first frost of autumn… Not really a welcome sight… Anyway, I've filled up the petrol and the water tank, prepared a soup for lunch, a big herbal tea for theもっと詳しく
It's a trap!
2023年10月6日〜8日, スウェーデン ⋅ 🌧 9 °C
So, after leaving Hudiksvall in the most complete freezing calm, the wind picked up with in my face with a strong sea and stream. As a result, it took me 5h and 25 nm of sailing to barely win 15 nmもっと詳しく
Wild surf to Gävle
2023年10月8日〜11日, スウェーデン ⋅ ⛅ 8 °C
On Sunday morning, I managed to leave that entrapping inlet!
I then put up the main sail with 2 reefs, and the front sail partially rolled (1/3 left rolled up, give or take). Still, I was making aもっと詳しく
Back in Öregrund!
2023年10月12日, スウェーデン ⋅ 🌬 12 °C
The forecast had announced a blow from the east later in the evening, but it came a bit early!
While this morning I had a rather easy and lovely time: going with the wind, a forming sea that was easyもっと詳しく
Gräddö and SNAFU
2023年10月13日〜15日, スウェーデン ⋅ 🌬 9 °C
Seeing as the weather was decent on Friday and promising to be rather bad on Saturday… I opted to go on and work on Saturday instead of Friday.
After a start in a very faint and changing wind (thatもっと詳しく
Gräddö
2023年10月14日, スウェーデン ⋅ 🌬 12 °C
A small walk as a break from work.
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Une petite marche pour faire une pause dans le travail.
To Stavsnäs we go!
2023年10月15日, スウェーデン ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C
After a relaxing start, the wind showed up and was really gusty, it made it a bit complicated to manoeuvre around some islands at time but overall it was a pretty nice a brisk sailing: 34NM in 5h30,もっと詳しく
Quick bread break
2023年10月17日, スウェーデン ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C
I took a small break from work to walk from the winter harbour to the summer one and checkout the bakery there. I ended up having lunch there and walking back with a lot of nice smelling bread!もっと詳しく
Nynäshamn again!
2023年10月18日〜19日, スウェーデン
After a few days in Stavsnäs, it was time to move forward. The wind was rather favourable supposedly so let's use it!
Turns out that after an easy start, the wind got a bit testy at some pointもっと詳しく























































































































































































旅行者Nice to read that you had a good start and are on your way! The stop at Junkön with refreshments was certainly a good first stay, and probably a goodbye to the summer. Bon voyage! /Lars
旅行者Thanks! Yeah, summer seems definitely over.