• sailing from Azores to UK

    Sailing from the Azores to UK

    After we had been on the Azores a couple of weeks it was time for us to start sailing to the UK. We started sailing from the Azores to UK June 11th. We left the Azores in June so that we would be able to make it back home to Sweden before August. We started working again September 1st and wanted to have some spare time so we wouldn’t have to stress for the last part of the sail. We also wanted to arrive to Sweden before the Swedish summer ended. Day 0 – June 11, 2021 After the drama with the autopilot, when we started our sail to UK,…

  • Atlantic Crossing West -> East – Part Three

    Part One and Two of the Atlantic Crossing West to East towards the Azores can be found under this two links: Part One and Part Two. Day 17 – may 16, 2021 Distance last 24 hrs: 54 nm Total Distance: 1708 nm Engine hours last 24 hrs: 3,6 hours Approx heading: 110 Breakfast: Oatmeal with applesauce Lunch: Knorr-pasta Dinner: Carbonara Sunrise/Sunset (UTC): 7:49/21:52 Water temperature (Celsius): 20 After drifting through a night with heavy showers and no wind (our autopilot drive unit had given up and we didn’t want to handsteer in the rain all night) we set sail as soon as the sun rose. The wind had picked up and…

  • Atlantic Crossing West to East – Part Two

    Part One of the Atlantic Crossing West to East towards the Azores can be found under this LINK. Day 8 – may 7, 2021 Distance last 24 hrs: 64 nm Total Distance: 799 nm Engine hours last 24 hrs: 2,7 hours Approx heading: 045 Breakfast: Youghurt with musli Lunch: Poke Bowl Dinner: Carbonara leftovers Sunrise/Sunset (UTC): 9:10/22:41 Water temperature (Celsius): 23 After drifting the entire night because the engine made strange vibrations, we started the day with testing the engine. The vibrations were gone and the engine was running smoothly again. It was probably something stuck in the propeller that had gotten loose during the night. We didn’t run the engine very…

  • Atlantic Crossing West-> East – Part One

    Our time in the Caribbean had come to an end and it was time for us to start the Atlantic Crossing, west to east, back to Europe. Day 1 – April 30, 2021 Distance last 24 hrs: 0nm Total Distance: 0nm Engine hours last 24 hrs: 0 hours Approx heading: 000 Breakfast: – Lunch: Spagetti Bolognese (pre-prepared) Dinner: Pasta with creamy chicken sauce (pre-prepared) Sunrise/Sunset (UTC): 9:41/22:34 Water temperature (Celsius): 27 We left Simpson Bay at the 10:30 bridge opening together with Sanuti. We first sailed west around Sint Maarten and passed Anguilla on the west side. It was a chill, sunny day and we focused on getting into the rhythm of the…

  • A visit to St Barths and final preparations

    April 23-30, 2021 One day in Sint Maarten we decided to take the ferry to the previous Swedish colony St Barths. Now it belongs to France, but it was Swedish for a time during 17th and 18th century. We took the ferry in the morning and since we had been in Sint Maarten for 4 days of more we didn’t have to do any testing or quarantine. We arrived to fancy Gustavia and took a walk around. A lot of famous, rich people have houses in the island and the town is filled with fancy stores. After a nice day in St Barths we took the ferry back to Sint…