With a sunny start to the day, we headed off first thing and after a short motor down the narrow channel south of Gullholmen, we started sailing fairly quickly and we kept sailing, and sailing and sailing …. In fact
We decided to stay for the day at Gullholmen. A grey start to the day made it more suitable for walking than sailing, so we decided to walk around the island. Gullholmen is at the northern end of Härmanö and
Slussen apparently dates from around 1715 when it was marked on a map as Slusa. The name sounds as if it should come from the word for a lock, but in fact comes from the Norwegian word slusa which describes
Vindö Marin started as a boatbuilder in 1926 adopting their approach from Nötesund’s Shipyard, which started building boats on Vindön Island in 1926. The building of boats continued through to the 1970s when their distinctive varnished topsides boats became very
Today was a day of reflection on sound. The first sound was that of gulls feeding. The y-boom opposite us had ‘capsized’ and so was resting upside down. While this made it useless for mooring to, it did make it
First thing this morning was taken up with various jobs. While we still had the car (until Vindö Marin put it back in one of their boat sheds again!), we did a quick shop in the ICA at Henån. We
We headed off from our buoy at Rörbäcke Kile first thing in the morning heading for Vindö Marin to sort out Charmary ready for the delivery crew. With some fairly strong gusts coming through we decided to hoist just the
A fairly short trip today and one where we pottered around checking out various places. The first place was Gullholmen. After leaving our mooring about 9am we stuck our nose into Gullholmen to see what berths were available. A cosy
We had a leisurely start to the day. The forecast was for the breeze to carry on blowing hard until early afternoon, so we were in no rush to leave. A visit to the chandlery managed to result in us
A slow start to today. Having been moored for a couple of days we went to leave, pressed the button to start the engine and ….. nothing ….. This is never a good look and led to some determined head