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 harbour, there were various options from alongside outside the harbour to stern buoys and mooring lines inside. Shortly after that we...
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 feeling significantly poorer, but somehow, simultaneously, not minding. Having new toys is always fun …. Eventually though we decided to leave about midday. Though...
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 scratching, the eventual conclusion of which was that the engine start battery was knackered. We reckon that it had lost some charge over a couple of days and...
We had a quiet day today. Well a quiet day in the sense that we didn’t go anywhere much, but not so quiet in terms of the weather. We chose the jetty at Gustafsberg because we knew the wind was going to blow hard from the west and sure enough, the forecast was completely accurate – it huffed and it puffed though didn’t blow any houses down …...
Buying a new boat can be a rash thing to do, particularly when you haven’t sold the previous one. Even more so when the previous one is also in Sweden. Charmary is still in Sweden. She wintered at Vindö Marin on the north side of Orust and she is due to be returned to the UK by a delivery skipper early in May. So, today we checked in with the boatyard. Ric and...
Amalia – our new boat – is a Sirius 35. We have read a lot about the boat, watched YouTube videos, researched it online, looked at Amalia herself and talked to other Sirius owners, but nothing prepares you for the moment where you actually have to drive the boat for the first time! On top of that, the previous owner had kindly agreed to come along which...
After an entertaining (?!?) night on the ferry in the company of a Norwegian couple, we arrived at Gothenburg on the ferry this morning at 9.15am – exactly when the timetable said – and by a complete fluke, we were the very first car off the ferry. Apart from a few questions from Swedish Customs (we said we had nothing to declare, though a few bottles of...