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.
Day 14, Gilleleje to Copenhagen, 34nm
Sweden Limericks! 🇸🇪
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! 🇸🇪”Day 13, Adjo Sweden, Hej Denmark! 22nm
Tuesday, 16 July
We set out on a flat sea with no wind. After yesterday’s blow it was like a different country.
Day 12, Torekov in Rain and Shine
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…
Day 11, on to Torekov, a Sea Change – 45nm
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”Day 10, Donsö to Varberg, 42nm
Saturday, 13 July
Wind at last! – but a much greyer day – a warm South Easterly filled in nicely and we were soon sliding away at 6-7 knots. We negotiated the last of the various islands and rocks and had a clear reach down Sweden’s West coast passing slower boats with ease.
Continue reading “Day 10, Donsö to Varberg, 42nm”Day 9, Donsö – No Wind!
Friday, 12 July
In the morning Sam went for a swim, David fixed things on the boat and Alex and I enjoyed a pleasant walk across the island to the ‘main town’ and ferry port and round the South of the island along a lovely woodland path in the nature reserve.
Continue reading “Day 9, Donsö – No Wind!”Day 8, Marstrand to Vrango – 35nm
Thursday 11 July
The day promised sea breezes and we set off down the rock strewn channel looking forward to a South Westerly cruise to the little island of Vrango just South of Gothenburg.
Continue reading “Day 8, Marstrand to Vrango – 35nm”Day 7, Marstrand
Wednesday 10 July
We had a very relaxed morning allowing the rain to wash over the decks and counted the gap between the lightening and thunder – Alex reckoned it was about 3 miles away. David and Sam took the opportunity to set our AIS MOB distress alarms for our life jackets. Somehow David set one off and spent the next half hour talking to every coast guard in the area trying to cancel the alarm!
Day 6, Off we go! Henån to Marstrand
Tuesday, 9 July
This morning the promised swap of our gooseneck took place. This involved a 6.30 am start, La Bamba driven to the service dock, and a crane carefully placed (not knocking off the radar) to hold her boom up while they removed the old gooseneck and put the correct one on. I really did not like it when there was a big gap!
