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 up. This has brought us through 5 different countries, given us countless wonderful experiences, many new friendships and resulted in a total distance of 2536 nautical miles, or 4697 kilometres. Yesterday we sailed the last miles for this season, and our arrival back in Bogense was definitely accompanied by mixed emotions – happy that we and the boat made it back in great shape, sad to realise that this big adventure has come to an end, and excited to see what is waiting for us and Désirée in the years to come.
Although we arrived here with mixed emotions, the strongest one is definitely the feeling of gratitude – there are so many people we want to thank for making these 6 months possible! First and foremost my grandparents, Hans Erik and Inge, for trusting us to borrow their boat for these months and for their support in general. Also, we want to thank Désirée herself for being such a trustworthy companion in every situation we got into. Then of course comes the rest of our families, our old friends, our new friends, the many friendly strangers we met on the way and our guests on board. Thanks for helping with the refit, being supportive, giving good advice, spending your times with us, commenting on our posts in here, sharing your secret tips and much more! THANK YOU ❤️
Now time has come to start the next chapter, which means moving from the boat back to land – for this we have chosen Flensburg as our new home town, so if you ever come through there either via land or from the water-side, let us know and we will be happy to see you there! 🙂
As we still have tons of nice video material to go through from our trip, we will post some more videos on this page during the next weeks, so stay tuned!
All the best and god vind!
Paul and Liv
🪴 Oh, and for anyone interested in the state of our third crew member Pelea, here we go (we are pretty proud she made it!) 🪴:
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