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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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Snap …..

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

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 8th May 2025
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Lolloping to Lysekil

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

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 7th May 2025
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Sailing on a different tack

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

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 6th May 2025
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Manoeuvring to a monastery

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

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 5th May 2025
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A steaming pile of ****

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

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 4th May 2025
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Steaming to Stenungsund

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

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 3rd May 2025
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Wandering to Uddevalla

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

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 2nd May 2025
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An embarrassment of boats

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

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 1st May 2025
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