The week passed quickly as we made a spring maintenance for Suwena and prepared her for the summer cruise. Now the muscles are feeling sore of lactic acid but the task list has been checked item-by-item. Andrus pondered yesterday evening
This year we started a sailing season on Ascension Day when we flew from Finland to Germany. In Hamburg a long distance taxis can be reserved online. This time we reserved a shared taxi and the price for two of
We are looking forward to next summer and upcoming sailing voyage. The winter has passed by making preparations and sailing plans. The start of this year’s cruise will be a little different than usually because Suwena has been wintering for
One of the most known books in ocean sailing is the Heavy Weather Sailing by Peter Bruce. We bought this book at the time when we planned to purchase a sailing boat and extend our cruising area. Thus we were
The island of Rügen is a great sailing destination. It is located on the southern Baltic Sea and we visited there with Suwena during our sailing voyage on the northern Germany’s coast in 2012. The sea area, in the south
Poland, one of the nine Baltic Sea countries, was our sailing destination during the summer of 2012. Kołobrzeg seemed to be a charming coastal city with huge beaches and happy people. Zeebrugge, the lighthouse and the waterfront promenades with surrounding
In the middle of the southern Baltic Sea there is the Danish island of Bornholm where we were sailing in the summer of 2012. During the tour around the island we found out that all the guest harbours were full
During the sailing on the Øresund strait we visited in Helsingør which has a significant Danish maritime heritage. So the Kronborg castle built in 1420 by the King Eric of Pomerania was certainly one of the places to explore in
In the summer of 2012 Suwena was sailing on the Kattegat from the island of Anholt to Helsingør in the wind of 15 knots.
There is an interesting partly deserted Danish island in the middle of the Kattegat. Anholt has been a long time very popular destination among sailors and we were really fascinated by Anholt as well.
