Scouting the Baltic Sea

I had actually taken a couple of books - scheduled plenty of time to fiddle with little gadgets and own thoughts. somewhat forgotten what it really is so good at sailing - could just remember that it is always good. As happens after every winter, I had again managed to forget what it's like to sail and why it is so nice.

Here, 10 days after departure from home starts day slipping completely into each other. Weight Change and sleep at odd times been as much life as søben on land and the constant rocking on the water. Arms, legs and hands are littered with cuts and bruises. Muscles work by pludeslig to be spent, and the condition is reached where neither small stuff programs or a wet sleeve or trouser leg is on generating. It has become customary not to be bathed several days in a row and to be continuous together with 4-6 other unwashed people around the clock on an area totaling less than the bathroom at home. Navigation and rostering, logging, and trim the sails fall again just as natural as eating sleeping and chat, laugh and enjoy the ride. In our daily lives. It's great!

Although I have sailed most of my life is the trip here still a new experience for me. I have never sailed so far, never as long distance and never so long. I have never sailed to several countries within a few days and never crossed a time zone in the sailboat. Another pleasant difference is that we are so many people with sailing experience aboard. I walk safely to bed without being in doubt that the next team can sail the boat and handle the situations that arise.

So far I have been to two countries which I have never visited before, and before we are home, it will be at least four new countries - and in a sailboat.

Even in the short time in each port providing we meet local people and create new friends and contacts. We see things, culture, architecture, people, ports, industry and a lot of other things we have not seen before, and I enjoy it in full.

I have not read a page in my books yet, I have not been busy with other than responding to ropes and minor repairs on the boat, but the thoughts are fortunately both space and time.

The tour is for all of us a lifetime experience, and provides a rare opportunity for thought and reflection on life and life's true values.

While the full moon now rises on the horizon and the water still trickles along the ship, who patiently and alone with the wind, a force moves forward to new countries and new experiences, I think more about how the rest of my life to be lived. I have no ambition to arrive at answers to the big questions, but are just grateful for the opportunity to ask them.

- Rune

Okay now we are so in Klaipeda, Lithuania, and we have it great if it does not just come here on the new blog for a few days it then because it is difficult to find a wifi network in Gdansk. Here is an excerpt from the boat's log.

6/5-09:

03:25 Jeppe, Trine, Thomas

55 ⁰ 18 '600'' N

22 ⁰ 19 '500'' E

The price has been changed to 51 ⁰ and the discussion goes on developing joke outdoor and safety equipment such as. joke masks drugs and defibrillator.

05:20 Thomas and Jeppe

55 ⁰ 29 '600'' N

20 ⁰ 42 '800'' E

6 m / s and SOG 4

07:56 Jeppe and Hyttel

We have seen the bird Pikhans again or it looks like him.

08:46 Rune and Hyttel

55 ⁰ 34'07'' N

20 ⁰ 49'09'' E

Contacted on channel 16 of the coastguards, asking for identification. Illuminated name of ship, call no. etc..

The change rate of 5 ⁰ for the sake of shooting range

12:45 Thomas, Rune and Trine

Calling at the port of Klaipeda, everything good.

Then we arrived to Klaipeda in Lithuania after 26 hours of rolling Baltic. We've had a lot of seasickness. Jeppe took brækbasunen forward, and played up to dance, even before at 17:00. Trine voted later, after an attempt to stay below deck to peel potatoes for dinner, which was below some effort, since a man had to go from to keep the pot onto the stove. After we had fed ourselves with meatballs, potatoes and beetroot salad city Lindvig and Trine, we started guard rotation for the night. The night passed without any kinds of problems, in addition to people as a direct result of the high seas has been a little dull in the socks. As the hours went lifted the cloud cover, and we got to see some stars before the sun rose.

11:00 took control port of Klaipeda radio contact with us and welcomed us.

So dad has our experience of Lithuania has been positive, since we are already at the entrance through the industrial port, could sense a certain kind of enthusiasm over ours for the season, very early arrival, and so entirely from Denmark. The entire crew of one, from a Najad 34, huge DFDS ferry was over to take our gypsy fleet Eyesight, as they passed us over. Harbor master has also proved to be enthusiastic about our presence and made us feel very welcome. The harbor itself is a little worn and battered, but the boats lying here, we can reverse not compete with - Litaunerne is obviously pleased luxurious yachts. The weather is not right with us, in writing ... it seems that we are in a massive low pressure, which gives somewhat dull and rather insistent rain. This is one reason why no one has left the boat after we landed. We set the cockpit tent up and got us a much needed meal. Then it was on common comforter comfort in the cockpit, with reading aloud and afternoon nap, which was just as needed. Then we got busy arranging midskibet as chill-out lounge, sor to watch movies and sleep a little more. Have decided to stay two more nights in Klaipeda and we will treat ourselves to go out and eat out tonight and takes on supplies tomorrow as it is getting late now.

d 7/5-09 Klaipeda in sunshine and windy conditions

The atmosphere is evenly dull to death

In the southeastern own, however, only relatively relaxed

In the far eastern regions blows a warm breeze, 1-3 m / s, under a heavy dundække

Now we have seen little Klaipeda at night. We found after some time wandering around, a small and very cozy cellar restaurant where we gave the full Anna, with local beer and food, for the tidy sum of 100 kr. nose. Afterwards we went back out into the streets to taste several beers, but this proved not to be quite easy. Because everything had closed one hour before it should. Here fell Litausike penny so ... AHA ... we are therefore sailed through a time zone and time was therefore not at 23.18 as it should be, but the entire 00:18, revealed by ATM receipt in Jeppe's pocket.

Quote Lindvig (to Trina):

"Okay, you did not know what country you were, you did not know what time it was and was not aware of their currency ... THAT is fucking vacation"

David (Gdansk):

"I am the hammer, I'm crazy about nail ... small nails, big nails, nail flashing, nails do not blink"

Kl. 19:17

We've seen us around on the local market and provisioned. Eating a huge lunch and had gyngeren on. Now it will soon put-sleeping hours, as we have planned a day's sail north in the morning.

We have used some of the day in Ronne, on the hour from 0745 to 1515 to be more accurate distance. Here was provisioned, relaxed and enjoyed!

We became good friends with the harbor master and had scored us a little discount in port money ...

After 17 trips to Kvickly and other places in town, we got new plant and sadly said goodbye to Sidse and weighed anchor.

Now 2 hours later, we set the course 92 degrees E from Dueodde to Gdansk in Poland, ca. 160 miles, it offers a voyage of about 26 hours.

Here are the fresh pictures from the trip between Rønne and Dueodde. There was shown a little Sail Into it!

Here are some pictures. TOTAL Sail Into!

And with those words we send helberdende thoughts to Rolf! And hope the test went really well for Trina that we must pick up in Poland tomorrow night.

at. 13.50 High spirits 1-2 m / s
log 165 (from Faaborg)
Crew: Sidse, David, Maria, Rune, Bette Squirrel, Thomas

at. 14.30 shaft test: nachos and rye bread with toppings

at. 16.40 crossing the Öresund bridge for motor and head for Falsterbro 6 knots

at. 17.00 log 184 to 5.5 knots over ground - price 168

After a hot day at Gilleleje with a mast that lay waiting for a blacksmith (who is at work)

We are back on the water. We had moved a bracket for the anemometer, l backwards a new bracket for the forestay,

put new lamp in dækslyset and installed a turnbuckle on the aft out there actually could be improved,

so all in all a rewarding stay in almost slipway. So now we try again to move towards

Skovshoved and when we are in the dark gets Kronborg on starboard, we expect to set sail and glide

down through the night and the Sound of a quiet halvind, we have despite the challenges do not hurry.

Congratulations to Rune with the happy event is called, we hope it becomes a stew.

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Well well since then, time passes and the clock strikes and we will by God not many miles up in the program.

Eric takes it all with serenity and the usual picture, the weather's nice, belly bar and coffee is ready, as he thinks-

freely observed and interpreted by the undersigned.

The hope is that we can sail in the evening and be in Forest head as scheduled tomorrow at the 0900th

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at. 5.40 sunrise while we pass Zealand reefs

at. 8.30: stem up, Rune Sisker up with bacon, fried eggs, beans, fried chapignon and tomatoes, bread, tea, coffee, cocoa and milk and fruit: o)

kl.09.30 wind comes quietly again. We set sail, and go now 6.5 knots

11.00 bracket that holds the forestay at the top of the mast smoker. We have salvaged sails and the stay and then go start to find out how we can get the problem sorted

at. 12.30 We have an agreement on hjæp with a nice harbor in Gilleleje, which is only 6 miles promotion

As I sat in the car this morning on his way to Faaborg, it struck me that there is a really long time I'm inside again. At the same time a pleasant and an unpleasant thought, if one may say so. TV, washing machine, dishwasher, juicer, clothes hanger, hot water ad libitum, drag and drop, heating, music system, stuff, stuff, stuff, all my wonderful inside thing. Immediate essential details of civilized individuals in Frederiksberg but my own experience shows is that only goes a few hours then the seawater flowed into the bloodstream at one and the brain examined in sailing mode. In such condition is that the sky and the waves, coffee and cigarettes, the next bend and the next course, the next guy and the next port that makes sense, it can then call for a powerful concoction of simple-living, fung-shui, Tatar- sex, trance dental meditation and healing, I have my own personal coach and my life values ​​are coffee, cigarettes and warm clothes. My goal in life is the next bend, the next course, the next guy and the next port. The setting for this is the sky and the waves.

Here, early in the morning after just 17 hours sailing is motion of the boat had already been completely natural part of my body's rhythms and sounds of mittens and a decrease in rig has taken place from the city's people and cars. The proper lookout has been unusually fast on, this may be a work of educator where the intersecting road just in the nature of punks in pajamas with snot in your nose and bandits in the jumpsuit with shit in the diaper. I'll wait to worry about the middle of June where I surely must be working again.

It is as if the trip has already been underway for several days, which I find strange, but on reflection it is the same like meeting an old friend not seen for many years, you greet only polite little nervously to see if he has changed, then turns but just lately and quickly is nothing new. Here we are now me and my friend ready for new adventures that can strengthen our relationship.

Lindvig

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20.30 from the Great Belt bridge, the wind abated to 1-2 m / s, we then go to motor around 6 knots

22:00 to 01:00 Thomas and Erik have first watch

01:00 Changing of the Guard - we pass Røsnæs

04:00 guard change course from Gniben against Snækkeløbet

5:00 we pass snækkeløbet. It was bright and we set course for the 78th Gilleleje rate Calm.

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28/4 Departure from Faaborg at 13.00

13.00 Departure from Faaborg harbor

14.00 Lunch: Rye bread with cod roe with remo and liver pate with beetroot

16.30 passed Sverndborgsund the motor and set sail goes around. 5.5 knots

20.00 dinner is over: tortelini with bacon / tomato sauce, parmesan and red wine. The wind has dropped to approx. 4 m / s and we go 4 knots in the Great Belt Bridge

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