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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…
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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…
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Helping sailors in need
Yesterday we sailed quite a distance from Middelfart to Dyvig, a beautiful sail in perfect weather conditions. Today we had Charlotte and Henrik on board and decided to go for a smaller day sail from Dyvig. We set sails and had been sailing for a while when we noticed a sail boat in the middle…
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Wrapping up the refit and going sailing for the first time (video #3)
We haven’t been posting a video for a while – simply because we have been so busy finishing up the refit of Désirée! Last week we finally got her back into the water and yesterday we went on our first sailing trip, leaving Bogense behind and heading south through Lillebælt down to the old harbour…
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We’ve moved in!
Tonight marks the end of week 7 of the boat refit, but more importantly tonight also marks the first night living aboard Désirée! Claus just drove us to the marina with the last couple of things that we still had at his and Ann-Dorthe’s place, so now we can finally call Désirée our home for…
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Mast mounted = happy sailors
Today we reached another mile stone in terms of getting ready to sail Désirée – the mast is now back on! My grandparents (and Désirées owners) stopped by to help us out with mounting the mast in the correct way, and we even had Claus and Ann-Dorthe at the marina giving a hand too –…
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Désirée in her right element
She’s back in the water! It’s been a very exciting day – at 1 pm Désirée got picked up and was transferred to the crane. Here we got to do the very last paint jobs and then she was ready to be let into the water. Everything went quite fast and very well, so now…
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Water, we are on our way!
This is the last post before Désirée gets her belly wet for the first time in a while. We are so excited!! At this moment we are sitting in the cockpit waiting for the harbour personnel that will transfer Désirée to the crane and ultimately into the water. We are a little nervous, so much…
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The prettiest teak in town
We have been working on many ‘invisible’ projects so far – cables that are hidden away, the motor that is under the floorboards, the through holes that are hidden under the benches, and so on. They have all been very important projects in terms of functionality and safety on board, but we haven’t really worked…
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The refit adventure goes on (video #2)
Week four of the refit is coming to an end tonight, and although there are still quite some points on our to-do lists, the end is getting very near! We really enjoyed cutting together the last little video we posted here, so we decided to work on another one, which is ready now! We hope…
