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Sweden here we come (again) (movie #15)
We spent the last night in the Aaland Islands in a beautiful anchorage preparing for a big step: sailing back to Sweden from here also meant crossing our own path for the first time after 4 months of sailing. The sail towards the west went very well and everything was quite calm except the unexpected…
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Wild weather in western Finland (movie #14)
Hey there and happy new year! 🙂 Here is our new video from our time in Turku. We hope you will enjoy it! Best, Paul and Liv
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Sailing the Finish archipelago (movie #13)
Hello there! It’s been quiet on here for way too long. We have been busy with many big and small projects the last two years (!), but now that the winter darkness is back and we are dreaming ourselves away and back on board of Désireé, we have finally managed to put together another video,…
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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…
