Dear Friends, thank you for your patience. Today it is almost exactly one year since I had left Simrishamn, Sweden, on board of Maru. Coincidentally, it took me also exactly one year to purchase Maru, learn how to sail, sail Maru to Sweden, convert her for ‘sustainability’ and then sail her to Bretagne. During theContinue reading “Summary: Sailing from Sweden to Bretagne”
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Friendship despite Pandemy
we agree on much more than we thought we do
Götheborg of Sweden – Synchronicity
Stranger than fiction: Last week, on my way from Patrick’s family to Naghmeh, I passed this huge classic sailing ship. Its AIS signal helped me to find out: … she is the Götheborg of Sweden (see homepage). Why is that special? Because a few days earlier I tried to meet Bengt, an old sailor, inContinue reading “Götheborg of Sweden – Synchronicity”
Touringtest by the Sea
Touring Test continues. In this phase I live on board of Maru, since Monday. During the last months I prepared this rather small boat with some essential upgrades for single-handed long-distance sailing: auto-helm, AIS receiver, solar panels and wind turbine. Some of that is actually working. One of my goals is to run Maru asContinue reading “Touringtest by the Sea”
Hast Du keine Angst // Aren’t you afraid?
-english version upon request, please try machine translations for now- Das werde ich manchmal gefragt. Kurze Antwort: Frei von Angst bin ich nicht. Aber einschränken lasse mich auch nicht gerne von meinen Ängsten. Angst ist wie ein wildes Tier das Du zähmen kannst und sogar an der Leine führen. Ein gesunder Umgang mit Angst bestehtContinue reading “Hast Du keine Angst // Aren’t you afraid?”
a day of rest + planning
Today was very little wind, so I chose to stay in Klintholm and use the day in different ways. Paying bills. Taking a nice, hot shower in the harbour. Checking weather. Researching on how to use the 42 m² “blister” (or gennaker) sail for tomorrow, which will be another day with little (but some) windContinue reading “a day of rest + planning”
Downwind Sailing and Surfing
2nd day in my sailing tour to Sweden was all downwind sailing. It was fun to play with course direction and building up speed for surfing on the waves: More track details here: > https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/7751332362 There was so much tailwind that I sailed with the engine down in the water. When put in “neutral”, itContinue reading “Downwind Sailing and Surfing”
gelandet // arrived
TT Phase 4: The Sea
My Touring Test went roughly through three phases so far: Travelling all over Sweden (2020 May – August) Domestic life in Skåne (2020 September – 2021 April) Nomadic life in Southern Sweden (2021 April – September) Five weeks ago I bought a sailing boat (Tanenui 28 catamaran). It makes no sense. I had no plan.Continue reading “TT Phase 4: The Sea”
Aufruf zum Treffen: morgen Abend um Lenggries
Eilmeldung: gerade bin ich für knapp 3 Tage in Lenggries (um Kira + Auto abzugeben). Danach geht es nach Fehmarn auf’s Segelboot und damit wiederum nach Schweden. Wer hat Lust zum Wiedersehen am Donnerstag (28.10.) Abend ab 19:00? Sorry für die kurze Vorlaufzeit. Es war eine sehr spontane Entscheidung. Details per Email / Telegram /Continue reading “Aufruf zum Treffen: morgen Abend um Lenggries”
Touring Test 