Category: Sailing

  • Summer in Sweden

    Summer in Sweden

    We sailed from Christiansø near Bornholm back to Sweden on Saturday, and have since then been making our way up the coast to Öland, a big island that lies along the Swedish coast around Kalmar. The wind seems a little indecisive at the moment and has been quite weak for some days, but the temperatures…

  • 1 month of sailing

    1 month of sailing

    As we set sails for the first time on the 19th of April, today marks our first month of sailing! It seems like a good opportunity to reflect a little on the time spent sailing so far. This fits perfectly with our current location – today we sailed from Bornholm to the small island Christiansø,…

  • Enjoying the Island life

    Enjoying the Island life

    Since our arrival to Bornholm several things have changed. Starting with the crew, Johannes a friend from Dresden arrived and will stay with us until we are back to mainland Sweden. Furthermore we had Clara visiting for two days, she is also from Dresden and currently on an interrail trip. What a nice coincidence that…

  • Bornholm, Bornholm, Bornholm

    Bornholm, Bornholm, Bornholm

    Du, min dejligste ferieø 🎶 We have had a wonderful sailing trip to Bornholm today! Not only did we finally get to sail something else than upwind course – the waters were quite calm, the sun was out all the way and we had no issues crossing the big cargo ship channel. Désirée seemed to…

  • Sweden here we come (video #5)

    Sweden here we come (video #5)

    It’s been a while since we posted a video in here, and a lot has happened since! After waiting out the storm for some days, we left Ærø and had a great sail to Omø, where we spent a perfectly calm day enjoying the sunshine and the island. Then we had a slow sail with…

  • Against the wind, towards the east

    Against the wind, towards the east

    As mentioned in our last post, we have had strong winds from the east for a while now. This lead us to spend some nice days in Skanör, where our first guests arrived Saturday – welcome to Anne, Anders and Simone! As Simone’s parents have been sailing a lot on Désirée throughout the years, it…

  • Hejsan Sverige! 🇸🇪

    Hejsan Sverige! 🇸🇪

    A little update to let you know, that we made it to Sweden yesterday! We can’t wait to explore Sweden in the next months to come, although we will have a little re-entry into Denmark when visiting Bornholm. It feels good to have arrived in the country of Kanelbullar, maybe we will go hunt down…

  • Late night mast climbing

    Late night mast climbing

    Yesterday we tied the boat up to an anchorage buoy near Sortsø, by Stubbekøbing. The water was perfectly calm, there was no wind and the boat wasn’t moving at all. After eating dinner, we got the idea to pull one of us up the mast, as we needed to fix three things up there still:…

  • Island-hopping in Småland

    Island-hopping in Småland

    We’ve just spent some really nice days on Omø, a tiny island in the Great Belt (Paul’s favourite island!). As always we had a great time, and yesterday the snack bar even opened so we could eat some delicious fries 🙂 Today we left Omø with the plan of going all the way to Stubbekøbing.…

  • First steps of the voyage (video #4)

    First steps of the voyage (video #4)

    Dear friends, we have another video ready for you! Yesterday we could celebrate that we have now been sailing for one week – and what a week! In total we have been sailing 115 nautical miles, which is equivalent to 213 km. We took our dinghy for a first ride, we had a birthday party…

  • Work Sail balance

    Work Sail balance

    Life onboard Desiree is busy these days. Either we sail or we work on one of the unfinished refit projects. But slowly we are starting again to take some time for things that we use to do in our free time, unrelated to the boat. When we moved onto the boat most of the necessary…

  • Spending the first night at anchor

    Spending the first night at anchor

    We just thought we would post some pictures of our first anchorage – tonight we have tied Désirée to a buoy from Danske Tursejlere on the northern side of the island Lyø. It’s an absolutely beautiful evening so far, we saw a really nice sunset and took the dinghy for a spin to go on…