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.
Øresund Bridge closed due high winds. Ho hum, all was good so far but I can’t do anything about the…
Arrived Rendsburg, on the Keil canal, a place I have stopped at a few times. This is my overnight stop…
The fire fighting museum is great, well worth the time and modest entry fee.
In Christiana a mounted group of singing horse women. I missed them singing unfortunately.
Exactly 4,000 kilometres after leaving Worthing. 5pm and a slob kind of evening planned, video, sleep.
First time for me, I always travelled by train boat on this crossing. A very impressive construction. Perhaps a bridge…
He tells me he is just along for the ride
But I think all endeavours that are worth the effort should be given the effort. Throughly nice chap, the owner,…
Staying overnight Groningen, viewed two possible ships today, below is reality for wooden decked little boats, none of your 6…
Arrived hellevoetsluis, home, Wednesday night, it was a late one with my friend Dick. Four days of interior work on…
Plastering on new stud wall (fire protection) kitchen floor, new worktops, more ******* smoke alarms, switchboard etc. All should be…
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