Motorsailing 27 Nm 5 hours from Simris to Åhus. Clear skies and  a nice breeze from northwest and a waveless bay. Wunderful and very pleasant sailing today

We are berthed by the Absolut Ditillery.. Low season now and 150SEK harbour fee

Stuck in the harbour with 10m/s wind and high waves outside the piers. Time for repair of the broken parts on the boom and cleaning of ourselves and the boat. Long walk in the wonderful old town. Found a nice fish store and bought fresh cod, herring, "Norway lobsters" and a dozen oysters

Ystad to Simrishamn 28Nm 6 hours

The forecast was northeast 4-6m/s, increasing to 7-10 at night.Hoisted the mainsail and motorsailed aganist the head wind towards Sandhammaren at the southeastern tip of the "Skane Peninsula". Comfortabe sailing and great weather. When turning north at Sandhammaren, the mainsail snap shackle broke and the boom swinged away with a bang. Luckily, we were mororsailing against head wind so the boom did not brake down the rig. Made a provisional repair and lowered the sail

Then the wind increased to gale winds10-15 m/s, which was more than the forecast and big waves started to build. After a very uncomfortable last leg, we entered the guest harbour i Simrishamn. It was quite exiting to aim and go through the narrow opening between the piers with the high waves at stern. Not a good day at sea

We are now comfortably berthed at the guest harbour and awaiting the gail to blow out.

We passed through the open bridge at 8.00 am and sailed by motor through the Canal The wind was steady approx. 5 m/s from  north, resulting in a very comfortable half wind sailing with all sails hoisted, e.g. foresail, mainsail and missen. Warm and sunny day at sea with 23 degrees Celsius.

34.3 Nm and 8 hours sailing

Berthed long side in Ystad's excellent Marina with 200 SEK fee

Tomorrow we will "sight see" Ystad

Made the boat ready for a new adventure and at 3.15 pm we left for Hollviken/Falsterbo Canal.

Wonderful weather with 25 degees Celsius at sea, but no sailing wind

Tied the boat up along the nothern pier in the Falsterbo Canal. The wind came back with 15 knots North at night which made our berthing quite bumpy. Tied up with long ropes reduced the forces on the boat and we went to bed rather tired from the sun and sea after a wonderful chicken ownen roast

Made the boat ready for a new adventure and at 3.15 pm we left for Hollviken/Falsterbo Canal.

Wonderful weather with 25 degees Celsius at sea, but no sailing wind

Tied the boat up along the nothern pier in the Falsterbo Canal. The wind came back with 15 knots North at night which made our berthing quite bumpy. Tied up with long ropes reduced the forces on the boat and we went to bed rather tired from the sun and sea after a wonderful chicken ownen roast

Made the boat ready for a new adventure and at 3.15 pm we left for Hollviken/Falsterbo Canal.

Wonderful weather with 25 degees Celsius at sea, but no sailing wind

Tied the boat up along the nothern pier in the Falsterbo Canal. The wind came back with 15 knots North at night which made our berthing quite bumpy. Tied up with long ropes reduced the forces on the boat and we went to bed rather tired from the sun and sea after a wonderful chicken ownen roast

50 Nm, 8 hours, fog for the first hour, then clear blue skies and 25 degrees and sunny. No wind. Shiny sea

Sailed on autopilot from Klintholm on Mön to Malmö Dockan Marina. Felt nice to go in the fog with Radar and AIS. It was different in the 80s when fog meant dead count and great uncertainty. Today you have full control of the large ships both with speed and direction and time for "encounter". Despite all the electronics, we note the position, speed, distance and direction every half hour in old-fashioned charts. If we were to get rid of electricity supply, we could, after all, navigate the old-fashioned way with a dead count.

In the traffic separation zones around Falsterbo Rev, there was quite a lot of traffic to keep track of, but without problems. It is to be noted that the large merchant ships run at high speed and it is always best to weigh clearly in good time so that they see what intention we have.

We docked in "Dockan", walked over to our apartment, had a sundowner, a shower and spagetti carbonara with some Italian red wine and it just feels nice to be home again

55.1 Nm, 9 hours 17 minutes. 6-8m/s from northwest. Sunshine and 20 degrees.

First engine run with the wind in the nose, then it turned to the northwest. 
We fell off a few degrees and rolled the jib that . Stabilizes with the mezzanine.

Out east of Fehmarn, the sea swell came on the side and it got really jumpy
for a few hours. 
We sailed just under the wind eye as best we could and had some help from 
the engineas well.

Once in Gedser, there is plenty of space and it is nice to add to the wind between piles.