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THIS is Sweden!
If anyone has ever seen a postcard of Sweden, the picture was probably taken here in Huskvarna. This place is amazing, it just can't be real, it's too perfect!
Well I should probably start at the beginning. We left Visby in bleak rain and gloom and got on the ferry to Oskarshamn. We had two cars worth of people to see us off at the harbour …
Our First Summer Day!
... of the sheet incident but also we’re now going to be in more saline conditions and they would rust very quickly if left on deck). We visited the cathedral, it was nothing special so I won’t include any photos (done enough churches etc!) and that is about it. Drinks at 18:00 with Andy and Pauline, a couple of Skype calls and then dinner. So endeth a boring day blog-wise but we enjoyed ...
Sailing can be a SLOW business
... that sailing would not be an option for him so he set off motor-sailing. We, being made of sterner stuff, decided to sail –actually for sterner stuff read more naiive as after one hour’s sailing effort in the F4 winds we were precisely 1.3 miles further south ie towards Kalmar. So we used the engine with a full main and the stay’sl and in this way we were making 4 miles or so southwards in every hour, arriving a good hour after Odile ...
A Lesson Learned
... all CW did was accelerate and lean away from the wind until weather helm got to much and she started to round up into the wind but then the gust passed and that was it. However, being a cautious sort, I decided to furl the genoa and use the much smaller staysail which is a strong wind option, but in the now lighter wind again, it didn’t give us enough power so we finally settled on a reefed main and genoa, as we headed out of the shelter of ...
Traveling on
On our way. Kalmar has been lovely. We walked through a beautiful neighborhood and several parks. Flowers and vegetables and the Swedes and their children enjoying the summer sun. The hotel is large and nice. We had laundry done here as Ron could not find a self service one, much to his disappointment. Doing laundry in a foreign country and getting a haircut are highlights for Ron-a slice of real life. Kalmar is full ...
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