We had a little trouble entering the 20m wide harbour when the engine stopped downwind. All was well however and…
0800, HR parts department, a joy for anyone who likes boats and boat shops. A special family member price from…
F6 beating all the way, all good, no breakages.
Replaced FWT lid seals with green carry mat foam found on board, cut and tighten FWT breather pipe, two clips,…
I am told this is the “Cowes” of Sweden. A really beautiful day sail up here, quite short but now…
Yesterday we made a day cruise over to öckerö to check the many small improvements and installations made. Autopilot still…
Almost ready to sail. Jan stitching cockpit tent and then many many other jobs on the ship, all essential.
7:30 start, 17:30 finish, battery monitor and associated shunt, significant rewiring required. Over time the battery isolator had been bypassed…
Exhaust, fuel line and electrical hook up still to do. Will leave it for the moment and await additional components…
After a frustrating morning with no answers to emails or phone calls I visited Hjertmans, a fully stocked marine store…
After flag raising and associated drink up progress on Saturday not terribly good. New CD’s bought, curtains investigated etc. Good…
At long last ship registration document arrived so I am able to flag Baravi as a British ship. The Swedish…
All good, maintenance has gone more or less to plan, most devices work now, some need calibration, maybe more to…
My Dutch friend Jan arrives Gothenburg 16th May and will stay for as long as it pleases him! This is…
Ashore, Öckerö work on underwater fittings will be completed tomorrow and ship back in the water Thursday. My plan is…
Left GKSS 1030 and sailed much of the way to this location, arriving around 1300. All good, ship sails well,…
Finalised the instrument rig, all working, will need a bit of tweeking but basically functional. At long last had a…
Ramnav, very helpful will programme the radio. Did a little second hand shopping, cutlery, Ash tray, basket, wine etc. Stripped…
Negative bus installed, led’s fixed, spare joinery stored forepeak, cabling for existing network (nmea2k) examined and mapped out for connection…
Tomorrow a fun bit with autopilot Dock side setup, including something called a “hard over time”. I think this is…
New auto pilot hooked up and temporary power put on, it lives. Fixed damaged louvre at entrance, stripped out current…
Autopilot heading sensor and control unit mountedtogethet with associated cable pulling, my favourite. Tiller ram new socket fitted and connected…
80% wearing face masks. I bought along a rather shabby old one, perhaps I put it on.
After three weeks of isolation and “watching the numbers” I booked with KLM to move back aboard ship. A tough…
Sweden has a much less stringent approach to coronavirus than other countries at the moment… I keep looking at the various online…
The trip down was not too bad, no rain thank goodness so the missing back screen did not fill the…
Found it this morning. Always look on the bright side of life, te dum, te dum, aka life of Brian……
After an unbelievable amount of online aggro and bumping up of fares and a half hour waiting for a non…
20 plus degree’s, sunny, light winds. Spent the day exploring and cleaning ship, lots of stuff to find out of…
Clause and Stuart and leif and Linda and and. A lovely house in a beautiful island.