After two weeks of constant hassle and before the Göta canal we wanted to relax and decided to find a nice anchorage. We like to be anchored because the boat swings softly. It feels like the boat is floating freely
While crossing the sea of Åland from Rödhamn to Stockholm archipelago, the wind blew 10 m/s from north (force 5 on beaufort scale). The waves were rolling smoothly. However there can always appear one bigger wave. This happened to us
There was really peaceful in Verkan. It was a weekday and the marina was not yet open during this season. Only a few yachts arrived in addition to us. We enjoyed ourselves in the tranquility of nature in the beautiful
On Sunday evening we had Suwena’s first sail of this season. We spent few hours sailing on Airisto and testing Suwena’s rig together with a new propeller. Everything worked flawlessly. Most of all the foldable Flex-o-fold propeller is a great
This moment we’ve been waiting for the whole winter finally arrived on Tuesday 15TH of May. We arrived to the railway station of Turku fully loaded with various bags and the countdown showed that we still had 3 hours and
For a somebody the word zinc brings up an image of a zinc bucket. For a boater it is however a grey lump of metal bolted to the hull of a boat. The boating season is about to start and
Web cameras, Google Earth and Navionics sea chart in iPad have now been in heavy use as we are following how the ice is melting at Baltic Sea. We are eagerly looking forward towards the spring and preparing Suwena for
Almost two years have passed since our last blog upgrade. Then we started to write our blog entries both in Finnish and English. There are already 16 sailing videos about our adventures at Baltic Sea on Suwena’s video channel. Inspired
We were proud to receive the Voyage Frigate award of 2011 from our yacht club. Suwena made the longest trip among the yachts of our club totalling 1348 nautical miles during the summer of 2011. The circulating trophy is a
Our Baltic Circle of 2011 continued in Latvia. We stopped in harbours located both on the Baltic Sea side and on the Gulf of Riga side: Liepaja, Pavilosta, Roja and of course Riga. Already in 2008 during our voyage to
