Scouting the Baltic Sea

After getting an interesting tour of Chirstiansø went to Svaneke harbor. Here we got after having moored securely, time to savor the local food (again) as well as the popular Svaneke-Beer. On the way home through the streets ran a sixth crew us up, and David was now back on board, so every man indfandtsig the flight deck for a late-night thunder aloft (Irish) coffee ...

Since we had found that oil-fired really did not work we got, the next day called a reperatør up who came and looked at it. The fuel pump was replaced. After two days waiting to sail a pump in from Copenhagen, we were finally mounted and Diana is again dry and warm - HAPPINESS.

However, blowing it too much that we can or will go our way out of the blue wave, and we drive out the waiting time by looking at Waterfall Døndalen, Shoppe in Rønne, eat herring in Gudhejm and play billiards with Bent Watchmakers and Mogens, the retired master builder ... quite nice to spend time with a few of the locals. The gates to the harbor is closed because the wind from NW offers some sizeable waves, so even though we had some daredevils who was bold enough to go ourselves into it, so we were not allowed.

David has this morning left the boat again, in favor of the mundane life at home in Copenhagen and we are again a little tired, but fortrøstningsfild crew aboard ... we keep ourselves ready to sail, if the forecast holds true and the wind subsides at night ...

Continuation Follows

The tour has come to Kalmar is situated at the bridge to Öland, here we are tonight and sailing then to Christian Island

The pictures are from a small port on Öland called Byxelkrok where we slept and ate yesterday.

Thanks for following up with our farms and see you soon ... ... if i understand this a little one!

at. 15:09

There Chlles in cockpit with Dario Von Slutty and a fresh sour which is cool. A nice sunny but chilly afternoon ...

time of writing are heard DUB reggae at full blast, and the time is approaching slowly 17:00 which is the next project and we are almost ready.

TOTAL WELL

Pikhans has left us. That we had to find around noon. 13:00 (very impressed with his stamina)

he was probably too much of the guitar playing and singing angels who had descended from heaven to entertain robert in cokspittet.

18:23

Well fed into Swedish sausage and Trines beetroot salad

Led Zeppelin stands for dessert. Hertz now rejoice at not being able to see land anywhere.

We have made a single attempt to communicate with the radar in Almindingen ... "WHAT DRINKING MOLLER???"

19:00

Michael Jackson entertains now cockpit personnel ...

The displacement time ølbriket-trivia (some Holbæk girls will know the game) ...

Lindvig winner of 35 pcs in one hand

Trine wins in 9 pieces in each hand

02:20

doing a little hullabaloo navigation and passes Emerald Princess, who choose to stop to let us pass in front, but we are not to be fooled and meet course the usual bays rules and go beyond ....

result = HUGE cruise ship is stationary until we are past

D. 20/5-09

Then we have evicted some time in vasahavnen, and related, so unusually beautiful stockholm .... Some board had visited the Vasa Museum, which of course was quite obvious, since we were fortøjtet approx. 100 next door.

13:00

departure from Gästhamn Vasa

15:22

Then we crossed the two bridges and a lock ... we have just passed Gröndalsbron and has 20 mil for the next bridge ...

the guitar playing by Rune and eating homemade bread (by Mikkel Hertz) with secrets made garlic.

Now it rains and all mustofanter room lists to get dressed for the occasion .....

The very rare female Mustofant has gone below deck to find his red and white regnvejrsham forward ....

D. 21/5-09

Kl. 00:45

we are free of the archipelago and set course 167 towards Visby ...

02:30

(Trine and the Bette Squirrel)

The position is listed in the manual log book:

The depth decreases from about drasrisk. 100 meters to 4.2 meters

we determine to be sailed over a whale .... or perhaps a Russian submarine ....

maybe we should keep an eye on the echosounder works ...

D. 22/5-09

We moored in Visby on Gotland and has shed decks, chill, heard music, Misket drinks etc.

we have tasted the Gotland kitchen consisting of lobster, wild boar, cucumber jelly, sweet potatoes, white chocolate mousse, parfait and cosmopilitans ...

and now we have mysteriously been visiting board of various Norwegian and Swedish sailors ....

Regrets the lack of pictures ... but now the weary blogger announce his arrival in the party

Trine

So far you can get out and away, was to Estonia in the east and west of Stockholm, one can deform with

rightly say that we actually are on the way home again because Gotland lies to the south, thus

Out and back again - by Diana of Faaborg

A wise man once said "It is on the return journey the greatest adventure waiting" or is it just me

who have an expectation and hope to ride the last 10 days will be just as important as those

already passed in the Baltic Sea.

Time wasted with soap bubbles in Vasahamnen or festive bobbelfest in honor of Sidse on her birthday

home in Denmark.

There has been broad agreement on the Stockholm and the surrounding archipelago has some of the

most spectacular city and nature we have seen. The trip out through out the archipelago was really an experience.

Two locks and four bridges were paseres. At one bridge we had to fight a little for space with another

boat, as seen on the images.

Below, more exciting bridges and more expectant waiting, maybe it sounds noticeably strange that one can

welcome to come under a bridge, but when there just is nothing else to do then it becomes really a

great stuff and there is precisely what makes it so über cool to sail.

A happy man in Mustojakke in a boat in a lock in a Swedish archipelago

A focus lock crew of top action characterized tumult, or a fun experience to take water elevator.

When we were coming through Stockholm waterways and out into the forest island's fresh water was at close to the 1700th

And as the night pressed on, we were still not come out in the Baltic, tilgendgæld we can all

fyrkarekterer exist, the Swedes like the guy, MANY PINE

Now approaching Visby on Gotland is fast approaching, or wave ripples called it enough, then we will see

what it offers. Something with delicious food, stone gizmos on the beach and a fine old town think

I will. But I'm ready to be amazed and overwhelmed by the beauty once again.

And then .. I hope you are doing well both in Odder and Horsens, greeting Uncle T

And to all you other fools enjoy the work, trajectory, bill payments, writing assignments and indifferent

TV watching ... sincerely, Captain America, one of the planet free spirits.

May 18

After a slightly delayed departure from Haapsalu in Estonia is the tour moved on to the Swedish archipelago, and we're at. 13.10 subject to below Wasamuseet in Stockholm after a little over 31 hours on the Baltic Sea.

Close Encounters of other road users were limited to a few visits of small birds, and a close but quite undramatic passage of a Cruise Ship: Emerald Princess.

From landfall at the entrance to Stockholm, and up to Gamla Stan is 40 miles and passing through no less than 12 charts - what a port maneuver.

On arrival the crew shall sausage and Béarnaise depots filled up, without food or drink pigeons hero at all.

It småregner, but there are fine bathing facilities and internet connection, we are in a Scandinavian capital, and now we've also got something to eat. Not bad!

How can the raging Baltic also look Mikkel Hertz was somewhat disappointed but skærgaarden lived fully up to his expectations.

Nota ... the photographer is happy with the motives of the sunset.

We decided Saturday afternoon to postpone the departure from Haapaslu since there was still a bit too much wind, and not everyone was quite fresh.

Moreover, there was, as mentioned, great opening celebration of their newly established marina, so we had fortunately something to take us to .....

besides a very speedy confrencier there was performance of various kinds, and they had finally got beer taps inside the bar. At midnight, all the bunks and ready to weigh anchor early.

at. 6.50 on 17/5 we were clear of silt in Haapsalu, and ran off the engine, the quiet and calm manner, without resembling wind.

A little excerpt from the boat's log (aka. motorsejladstrivia)

at. 09:30

we have again been joined by a little bird who has started to remove the many insects that we carry from Haapsalu. It has been known not going to leave us again ... it eats, sleeps, chiller, eat and sleep - exactly like us.

at. 10:04 (local time at destination)

we have observed the fauna around us has gone berserk. The last couple of hours we've spotted, and the team is now firmly a seagull (maybe two), our new pikhans that have attempted to leave the boat, but regretted a large flock of guinea pigs out on the starboard side, a flock of cormorants quite advanced, and most recently a small cluster of seals.

15:09

59

The time is gone, and Estonia has been explored in every nook and cranny. Yesterday we were in Tallinn and see what it kuknne offer today's Mikkel Hertz going on, and tomorrow it seems that the weather becomes navigable

again, i.e. it is not breeze or more, but hva'skidt .... the port festival here in Haapsalu tonight therefore flag parade and fresh cooed teak deck

In Tallinn we were on maritime museum nameplates from the wreck, salvaged along the Estonian coast

Fun evening with movie and snack (Casino Royale) The MTV generation unfolds to div. Suede and the Spice Girls stand with Homy tuch which we donated to Haapsalus new marina, which will be inaugurated today

We are now ready to sail, and has transformed everything in provianten for food - just to warm up ... Besides Mikkel we have Rune board again. He beat Jeppe follow in Tallinn (and kept him apparently awake all night), but he's back ... mysteriously, tired and pale.

Otherwise, the day started early, just at. 07:00 when Trina stood up to take on Dieselrov in Haapsalu, a local ester ... the 100 liters of diesel is now procured, and poured into the tank, so the boiler again has got something to drink. The last days have been something else cool board. Then we went to war to scrub the deck, as it dawned on us that there was something there. With a little elbow grease and a tiny brush, it might be possible to scrub large algeplamager of the ship, so now she is nice and clean.

16.00 We are now ready to go in the sauna arrived safely to Ventspils in Latvia after 23 hours of sailing. Arrived at Ventspils approx. at. 10.00 for a nærvepirrende approaching. The reason threatened constantly coming up under the keel at us, and we could sense that indsejhlingen would be a little difficult. As we passed our waypoint - a anduvningsbøje approx. 8,5 mil from the harbor it proved to be a joke-bend, there was not even there. Then we did the port hole in the binoculars and could see that we had an approx. 180 ⁰ bad direction relative to the 4 m high waves. It came despite waves of fatigue and container ships well. (However, they had to be tried to sleep experience what it was once again being thrown out of the bunks - BLUE MARKS!, Ed.) We are obviously the only tourists in Ventspils. This requires of course that we provianten timber and prepare a well-deserved breakfast consisting of bread, cereal, oatmeal, coconut (frozen milk, ed.), Baked beans fried beer and bitter. Now is the small matter as kammet over and we have drained the boat and switched to swimwear. Habermas .... ter, according to agreement with Lindvig lit sauna, the Turnkey. 17.00. ALL WELL.

Two golden quotes (after draining of Diana):

Lindvig to Trine: I just had to be sure that if I jump in the harbor, then I get up again. But now the phone room ready .... I said telephone room I meant, of course, bathing ladder ...

Lindvig to Trine: DO NOT fucking me in the stomach because I'm naked. (Said as Trina drew a cross on his stomach irritation that he kept pushing the logbook while she wrote - he was not completely nude)

As the boat was drained of everything that could be consumed (and there was certainly a part when we arrived in port), we set out in Ventspils, to find some dinner. There are evening in Ventspils just a place to go TEX MEX restaurant - excellent food, but definitely not prepared for our crew. at. 21.00 delivered we ordered everything the restaurant had left the beer and pressure did so well (possibly with help from the French navy, who was also in town) to dry Ventspils total for beer ...

The details of the evenings is censored for the sake of underage readers, but it started with a tasting of local specialties (vodka) in Latvian serving dishes ...

10/5

18.45 Let Ventspils immediately after being stood up ....

Genoa and Motor out through the port. Canon. 5 m / s SW

19.45 Sat mainsail. Goes with both sail 4.5 knots over ground. 6 m / s NE

20.30 Event 14 ⁰ Time pitrabrød with Tun v. Lindvig who have decided to change their name to Thomas Mann Fjelgaard spasser Lindvig. We are full and well. The Bette Squirrels and Jeppe has gone to bed. Lindvig room lists are still in the galley with sausages and herbal tea. Rune is at the helm and undertgenede sitting in the cockpit starboard side and enjoy a beautiful sunset. We sail abaft the beam and go 3.9 knots for mainsail and genoa. Everything is perfect if it were not for spasser Mann, who has now taken the whole ship to hemskt smell of burnt pudding. Everything is opaque to gray-blue smoke. When we reach our waypoint for 5, 74 mil, we are a little more east and want to hit the sydvestestiske islands in just over a day.

20.59 Rune: (after a long artistic pause) Arrj I am looking forward to this, we must sharpen an hour ...

23.42

57 ⁰ 38.200 '

21 ⁰ 46,129 '

There occurs a little excitement in the cockpit of a large vessel right fremm. After some time spejden the binoculars we learn that the ship was a ferry on the way into or out of the Gulf of Riga, and therefore not on a collision course with us sailing 44 ⁰. Away to starboard, we have a bunch of enervating geese, which are apparently intends to persecute us for the rest of the night. Now there are again doubts have arisen about the ferry, but Rune notes when we finally see its bagbordslanterne that no cow is on the ice.

23.53 The geese have taken our wind, and we have midlertiudigt tabtr go. A few minutes later we log 3.7 knots again after coming off the geese.

Lindvig Quote: "I am krafedeme tired of nature" and Rune: "Brent Geese or ... Lortegæs"

02.30 Beautiful and starry night. Moon has finally come into view, since it was full yesterday (Hyttel sleep is continuing after a maratontur in Ventspils)

The engine turned on, wind 0-1 m / s SW

03:37

57 ⁰ 47.313 'N

22 ⁰ 09,775 'E

Now in Estonian waters Estonian Coast Guard radio call requesting identity and destination.

"Have a nice trip further on"

You would probably just be sure that we were a little sejhlbåd without danger of hitting the ground.

06:45

57 ⁰ 58.482 '

22 ⁰ 29.999 '

No new there is only water to check. Jeppe and the Hound

08.20 log 731, 5.5 knots

58 ⁰ 04.2 '

22 ⁰ 43.8 '

Only water

Reached 09.15 WP 18, 5.7 knots

58 ⁰ 7.23 '

22 ⁰ 51.1 '

Slightly hazy west. term of 2 M

nothing to see

09.20 Can see the lighthouse Allirahu to port - distance approx. 3.5 M for 20 miles we run out of charts :-/

11.06

58 ⁰ 12.6 '

23 ⁰ 08.4 '

5.8 knots 2-3 m / s with good visibility - only water

Motor has been running around. 7 h 30 min ~ Diesel consumption approx. 20 l - an estimated 140 liters left.

11.45 puzzled over the distance to the WP 19 and parity. Found a mistake in typing, adjusted and aligned.

12.20

23 ⁰ 15.0 '

58 ⁰ 17.3 '

Changes the rate to 51 ⁰

When we reach 23 ⁰ 30.2 Ø we must change course to due north as 0 ⁰!

13.25

58 ⁰ 20.6 '

23 ⁰ 24.8 '

5.3 knots 2 m / s, 21 m depth

14.02

58 ⁰ 22.3 '

23 ⁰ 30.2 '

Changes the rate to 0 ⁰, 19.6 m deep, 5.4 knots, 6 m / s

14.15 Off motor 6 m / s is 3 knots for genoa alone

16.00 Passret yby barrel

12/5

We are now in the port of Haapsalu in Estonia.

A very pussenussehyggelig small harbor. The marina is in the Western European standard, and also brand new. The people are friendly and we were well received. 17 euros each. days, cheap beer, cheap food, great views - nothing to complain about.

Weather tease however. The weather forecast says up to 20 m / s the next day and it looks like we will get to know Hapsalu pretty well before we come here.

Depth is not much. The keel must be mashed through 1/2 m of silt from entering the pond, but it can be done.

8/5

10.50 departure from Klaipeda wind 3-4 m / s NE

11.25 We have put Genoa and mainsail. Then there is breakfast. Wind 2-3 m / s S

13.00 Kicki Strap is the walk. The block must be changed, we make the rope longer - it was a little too short - which tackled!

13.15 span of the board in an attempt to wash the tire. We sail butterfly path 342 ⁰. Wind 4 m / s, 3.5 knots

15.45 Deep Purple and Tom Collins in the cockpit. Course 340 ⁰. High solar, wind 3 m / s 2 knots

16.45 0 to 2 m / s engine is started

18.31

56 ⁰ 06,895 '

20 ⁰ 54.105 '

0-1 m / s Kus 340 ⁰ We go 6.2 knots and plays guitar

19.00 Pedas serving casserole from Klaipeda in the cockpit (Klaipedasgryde, ed.)

19.41 We scout what looks like a bottle and goes 180 ⁰ off course to pick it up. The Bette Squirrels are sent on bathing ladder (Telephone room, Ed.). But alas the bottle was empty and we went back on course 353 ⁰

23.00 Sails: Genoa and Mainsail, Win 7 m / s 5.6 knots, course 9 ⁰. Half Wind: o) Jeppe and Thomas at the helm Liepaja across starboard

01:50

56 ⁰ 47.6 '

20 ⁰ 58.1 '

Rune and Jeppe approx. 6 knots 8-9 m / s

2:42 Unfortunate jibe. Lost intake of air to the bathroom and got stretched an arm. The wind has turned to the south and taken to 14 m / s. Recovers mainsail and continue for genoa alone. 5.5 Knob rate 21 ⁰ passed Akmenargs.

03.30 the wind has dropped to 6 m / s The Bette Squirrels are angry at the wind.

56 ⁰ 55.0 '

21 ⁰ 01.0 '

It rains, 4.5 Knots

03:55 It is still raining, the wind has dropped to 5 m / s The Bette Squirrels are still mad at the wind