Background
and hi to the rest of you as well.
Most of what I'm giong to write here will be in bad english since there are quite a few of my friends and relatives out there who for some reason don't understand Swedish. And of course the number of potential readers will increase by a factor 100 or so. Right now I'm in the intense phase of planning and purchasing everything you need going back to sea after some 14 years of longing. Yes, it is that long since I had access to a sailing boat. At that time a regular mid size lead freighter. You know, one of those things that has a ton of dead weigth down below.
Me and two friends will sail from Fredrikstad, Norway to Stockholm, Sweden in hopefully 5½ days. (Let's pray for wind!) We will board the boat on Thursday 29:th of May at noon. The plan is to keep posting every night if the technology works and cellphone network will reach us.
It's a bit of a wild and crazy thing that was decided yesterday actually.
The crew is:
Tomas Ekman, skipper and owner of the boat. (eagerly listening to his friends for multihull sailing advice)
Mats Gartz, first mate, my boss, but slave on board (also has a master's certificate and VHF license which comes in handy).
Carl Petersohn, second mate and slave to the slave on board with a spirit and an enthusiasm enuf to make anyone happy.
Actually we're all quit happy people. All in all, quite a merry bunch.
Will be back with pics and details.
/T.
Härliga nyheter Tomas . Nu kan vi tävla på mysingen !
Lycka till och ta det lungt på Kattegat . Om ni har tur får ni skymt av Göteborg på vägen ner . Kanske rent av stannar ni till för en räkmacka vid röda sten
Skeppochhoj
H-E
Jag ar i Aten
Kan ni inte ta den vagen, det borde ga med den fart ni gor
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hej kara besattning. Sa fina ni ser ut pa bloggen. Hoppas ni far mera vind efterhand. Ni ska veta vad avundsjuk jag ar. Kanske ni behover natthamn i Navekvarn. Kanske en middag hos oss infor sista etappen
Ha det sa bra. Forresten sa har vi en ok restuarang i hamnen i Navekvarn
Kram
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Hej Kl 0330 i Aten
tanker jag pa er som nattseglar. Om ni inte klarar er schedul sa kan jag hoppa in nar som helst from ti sen em. Bara sa att ni vet
B H fran Aten 32 grader och 23 i vattnet och massor av god mat och vin
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