The last couple of days have provided many reasons for us to celebrate!
Some days ago we were docked to the rock at the nice island Rödlöga, where we reunited with our friends from the sailing boat Merlin. As they are on their way south again now, but we are still heading north, this will be the last time we see them on this sailing trip, but it was very nice seeing them again and we are sure we’ll find them again some day on the Baltic Sea 🙂
Then, two days ago, we took a longer leg towards to north, as the wind was finally allowing some more sailing again. It wasn’t a lot of wind, so we got the test our gennaker for the first time – and with it’s help we made it across the 60th degree north! These two successes we celebrated with a bottle of cold bubbles in an anchorage bay by Gåssten.
Yesterday, we set sails for a shorter trip up to Öregrund, as Timon left the crew from there by train today. Although that is of course not another reason to celebrate, something else worth a celebration happened: Right before Öregrund we sailed our nautical mile number 1000 on this trip! Happy about this achievement, we were lucky enough to get tickets for a live blues concert in town that night and got to celebrate the mile number 1000 in good fashion.
And finally, today we also have something to celebrate – the rain is finally here! It might sound like a weird thing to celebrate, but the last two months have been extremely dry, warm and sunny. Not only did it seem as if nature was extremely thirsty, but for us it has also meant that making bonfires or even firing up wood-fired saunas has been forbidden for several weeks now. So today we celebrated the pouring rain by taking Désirée out for a little spin 🙂
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