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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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”
Night Sail training trip
This evening I went for a brief training tour. It was raining. Sailing by rain with a drysuit is better than staying in the harbour and getting wet for no good reason. Just before taking off I met my ultranice boat neighbor Jack. A young guy sailing this huge classic wooden boat, parked on theContinue reading “Night Sail training trip”
arrived at Sim City
To complete the Baltic Sailing tour, yesterday I sailed the 4th part and finally arrived well at Simrishamn. It was another day of downwind sailing. For a while the wind was pushing me fast enough so that I could catch waves and surf them briefly. Also it was the longest distance (44 nautical miles) ofContinue reading “arrived at Sim City”
Baltic Sailing Retrospective
Vielen Dank für eure Glückwünsche. Thank you for your kind comments here and on Telegram ❤️ For me the main goal of this trip is now achieved. I have travelled from Germany to Sweden. 116 nautical miles (215 km) in 3 sailing days, exactly as planned. The rest is details. Still I am a bit confusedContinue reading “Baltic Sailing Retrospective”
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”
1st Single Hand Sailing on Maru
What a day. So many first-time experiences for me: first cruise with new e-outboard-engine first single-handed sailing first anchoring first time reefing first little in-cruise repair first electric recuperation on water … The e-engine test had a rough start: while I was still navigaing in the harbour, the engine would stop several times (problem solvedContinue reading “1st Single Hand Sailing on Maru”
Touring Test 