Voyages of sailing boat La Bamba
Tuesday, 23 July
For those of you wondering how we measure our distance sailed, we are clocking our nautical miles through the water – this is often more than the distance as the bird flies because we have to tack (not even La Bamba can sail straight into the wind) and we sometimes have to sail against or with a current that can add or detract from the total.
Continue reading “Day 20, Møn to Gedster, 42nm”Sunday & Monday 21 & 22 July
We have decided to stay here until Tuesday, mostly because the weather forecast for Monday is for heavy rain followed by strong winds in the wrong direction and also we get a 3rd night here for free here anyway!
Saturday, 20 July
We set off from Rødvig in no wind at all on a glassy sea, pointing towards the bluff of the island of Møn on the horizon.
Continue reading “Day 17 – Rødvig to Møn, 25nm”Wednesday, 17 July
We left peaceful Gilleleje with our bellies full of prawns and motored on a very flat sea with grey skies to Copenhagen.
I have a tradition of writing sailing / stopover limericks that get entered into the ship’s log
So here are all our Swedish ones!
In Uddevalle the skies were quite grey
Looks like we’re in for a blustery day!
La Bamba was gleaming
We all started beaming
We cast off and soon sailed away
Continue reading “Sweden Limericks! 🇸🇪”Tuesday, 16 July
We set out on a flat sea with no wind. After yesterday’s blow it was like a different country.
Monday, 15 July
We stayed in Torekov today because it was very rainy and windy, nothing at all to do with the numerous delicious fish restaurants round the dock…
Sunday, 14 July
Today it was definitely windier than the forecast- we set off out of Varberg harbour with the sea state very definitely lumpy. We had a pretty constant 18-21 knots true nearly all the way, South-Westerly. That’s a good force 5 so gone was our flat sea and the white horses were tossing their manes.
Continue reading “Day 11, on to Torekov, a Sea Change – 45nm”
