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6 months of sailing
Today is a special day in many ways – it marks 6 months of sailing, our last day on the boat for now and our return to Désirée’s home port in Bogense. Since we left this harbour on the 19th of April, 183 days have passed, of which we have spent 94 with the sails…
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Crossing the Gulf of Bothnia by night (movie #12)
After having spent almost two weeks in Örnsköldsvik it was time to set sails again and head out on the open sea. With a favorable weather window we decided to cross the gulf of bothnia and get back south as much as possible with the limited northern winds. It turned out to become a bumpy…
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(Home)Land in sight!
This morning I woke up with the feeling that it has been quite a while since we last posted something in here. When I opened the blog to check, I was shocked to see, that our last post was made almost three weeks ago! Time has been flying by so quickly that there hasn’t been…
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Gotland impressions
We have just spent about 5 days in beautiful Visby on Gotland. Gotland is Sweden’s biggest island and is located about 50 nautical miles / 90 kilometres east of Sweden’s east coast. We sailed there from Fjärdlång in the southernmost Stockholm archipelago and therefore our crossing was quite a bit longer, about 90 nautical miles…
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Exploring Sweden’s High Coast by sailboat (movie #11)
In the beginning of July we sailed northwards along the Swedish coast to the ‘Höga kusten’ – the High Coast of Sweden, an area that rises around 1 cm every year due to postglacial landrise. It was a super nice experience with a lot of special places and nature that we really enjoyed. As on…
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Gotland, Göta canal, going home?
It’s been a little quiet in here lately – mostly caused by the fact that we had Paul’s parents visiting us on the boat in the Åland islands and the subsequent trip home to Denmark to celebrate Liv’s mother and her 60th birthday. It has been such a nice time surrounded by family! But another…
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Flying to the Åland Islands 🇦🇽
After arriving to Turku we got a little nervous about the incoming storm. People in the harbour told us that it should be the worst storm in 15 years in this region, ropes were doubled and many boat owners came to check that everything is in good order. We decided that the best way to…
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Friendly Finns
Today we arrived to Turku, the biggest Finnish city on our route towards the south. So far, we have sailed to two quite small cities along the west coast and three even smaller communities on islands in the archipelago. We are excited to see what Finnish city life is like and what the people we…
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Windy sailing towards the North (movie #10)
Hello hello, We have arrived in Finland now, but we still have some nice videos from our time in Sweden, which we would love to share with you. In this video we are sailing towards the north on some windy days. On one of them we both got quite sea sick and did not manage…
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Hei Soumi! 🇫🇮
Since arriving back in Sweden after our trip to Bornholm and back, we have spent the last 10 weeks sailing, exploring and enjoying Sweden and it’s beautiful east coast. But two days ago, we set sails and headed away from this coast that has been our home for so long – the course was set…
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Midsommar in the Stockholm archipelago (movie #9)
Dear everyone, Midsommar is already a month ago, and now we have finally put together some of our videos from around that time. We spent Midsommar in the Stockholm archipelago on the wonderful island of Möja. After that, we explored the islands of the archipelago further and slowly made our way up North. The time…
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The high coast
It has been a while since our last blogpost and that is for a good reason. We have been sailing pretty much every day with little spare time to reach our next destination which is also probably our northernmost point, the Swedish high coast. The high coast is geologically a very interesting place. 20.000 years…
Hello there, and welcome to our blog! We are Paul and Liv, a German-Danish skipper team sailing the Baltic Sea in our 35-foot sailboat for 6 months. On this site, you can find our route & current position, our video diaries and of course below you find our blog entries with stories and pictures from our trip: