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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Stormy screen printing
As there is a high pressure area above the Baltic countries and a big low pressure area around Svalbard, we are experiencing quite strong winds from the east at the moment in Skanör. Today, two boats have left the harbour (and have arrived safely at their destinations as far as we can see), but we…
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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…
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We like Møn
Yesterday we spent a day on land, as we wanted to go explore Møns Klint. After a quite cold and windy bike ride, we arrived at the Geocenter and found a little bus shed, from which we followed Paul’s brothers diploma defence – congrats Jakob, super well done!! Then we explored the cliffs by foot…
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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:…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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Motor Factory Marstal
As the next couple of days are very stormy, we are staying in Marstal on the island Ærø at the moment, enjoying the cute town and waiting for good sailing conditions. We had read about a project where three local women had bought an old motor factory that had gone bankrupt and turned it into…
