We arrived in Cabo de Cruz hoping to find support to solve our outboard engine problem and get the broken part of the windvane welded. We were hoping to get them fixed within 2 days. Instead everything got fixed in just a few hours thanks to an efficient harbor master with a lot of contacts…
Leg 9 – Northern Galicia
21 Years after her first crossing of Bay of Biscay in 2004 (at that time she did it from Kingsale in Ireland), Lovisa is once again in A Coruña. A Coruña is harbor where many sailors on the way to or from France stay either to wait for a good weather window to cross Bay…
Leg 8 – Bay of Biscay
We stayed in Camaret-sur-Mer 5 days during which we got the visit of Emilien’s family during a couple of days. Thank you so much for joining us in our journey! The two of us did not share the same enthusiasm regarding the opportunity Brittany provides to eat fresh oysters (someone onboard loves oysters – guess…
Leg 7 – Dieppe to Camaret-Sur-Mer
We stayed in Dieppe 4 nights from Friday (July 19) to Tuesday (July 22). It sounds a lot when we write it but we feel we had only a very short stay there. Could it be because we spent an entire day just to dry the boat (see Leg 6)? At the end we had…
Leg 6 – Zeebrugge / Bruges to Dieppe
We left Kalvholmen just about a month ago and we are already in Belgium! Sailing along Germany and the Netherlands still felt like being in the surroundings of Sweden because we see a lot of boats from these countries when sailing along the Swedish east coast. But Belgian flags in the Swedish archipelago is more…
Leg 5 – Kiel to Zeebrugge / Bruges
We spent 3 nights in Laboe nearby Kiel. And something a bit unusual so far, we had nothing really to fix on the boat! We took the time we had to relax after what felt like a long journey from Bornholm and read a bit about how it works to enter in the Kiel Canal,…
Leg 4 – Karlskrona to Kiel via Bornholm
We stayed in Karlskrona from Sunday (June 22) to Wednesday (June 25). Karlskrona is a town where Maria has been living for over 7 years before moving to Norway. For Maria it was the opportunity to come back to the past and see what has changed. For someone else, it was the opportunity to discover…
Leg 3 – Gotland to Karlskrona
We stayed in Visby only for a couple of days from Friday (June 13) to Sunday (June 15). Visby is a classic summer destination for many Swedes and tourists from other surrounding countries so when we sailed to Visby we were thinking about doing some bicycle tours, going for long walks along the beach under…
Leg 2 – Shake off to Gotland
As long as we stay tied up to the dock, we will always have something new to buy or something to fix. Lovisa is ready but she is a sailboat and a sailboat always needs something. We need to go now! It is also quite interesting how much things we believe we need when we…
Leg 1 – Let’s get started !
The start motor and the generator that we replaced are working fine, the cooling hoses that we replaced are tight, the sails are mounted, the water and diesel tanks are full. We are ready to get out of Göta Kanal and go for a first sailing ! We departed from Norshom through Göta Kanal towards…