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Scooting to Skärhamn

Another day, another direction. North yesterday and the wind was coming from the north, so we headed west and then south today – so which way did the wind go …. West and then south ….. It’s like it knows

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 20th May 2025
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Lunging across to Lyr

With a breezy day forecast we decided to have a relaxing day in Åstol and so didn’t head off again until this morning and then just a short run north. We want to stay fairly close around Tjörn as Alex

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 19th May 2025
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Admiring Åstol again

After a day of looking around Gothenburg, including a trip to the chandlery on the tram, we decided to head back north again. The wind has remained resolutely in the north and we want to go north, so we knew

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 17th May 2025
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Yomping to Gothenburg

The observant among you will have noted that I often use alliteration in the titles of the blog entries here, so before you feel smug and think that I have lost the meaning of alliteration, I need to go through

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 15th May 2025
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Kedging to Källö Knippla

While we waited for the overnight northerly blow to go through, we went for a walk around Marstrand. It is a beautiful island and the walk took us around much of the shore. We went past the old bath house

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 14th May 2025
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Monitoring Marstrand

A short run today and a relaxed start. We decided to head across to Marstrand – visible across the water from Åstol. The total trip was 3 miles, so hardly strenuous! In Marstrand we moored on one of the visitor’s

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 13th May 2025
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Approaching Åstol

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

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 12th May 2025
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Hauling around Härmanö

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

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 11th May 2025
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Slussen to Gullholmen

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

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 10th May 2025
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Unfettered to Uddevalla

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

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 9th May 2025
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