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Hissa flaggan! Sjösättning |
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Hoist the flag! Launch |
Close Encounter
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Oops! Only kidding, We plowed in to the reed instead of dropping anchor. |
If you tell my Mom I had candy on a Tuesday...
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I'll tell her Dad had candy too, like this I just pinched from his candy bag!
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Anny has been anchored and abandoned like this in The Pirate Cove for almost three weeks now. It's like she is weighing the anchor prior to departure. I hope there isn't a gale coming! Usually she is moored in the outer guest harbour in Trosa, but I guess they need the dock for the tourist invasion! :-)
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Saturday on the
water 070714
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I guess these guys felt lonely, with no smugglers to catch, and therefore came cruising in to Trosa harbour.
LOA 38 ft / 11,5 m |
When the rescue boat came in full speed in the seven knot lane it was just to keep a steady coarse and let them drive slalom between us. More pictures from Trosa Sea Rescue Station.
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It seems to be empty talk only about the environment, and no actions!
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It was unusual winds today, which led us to an unusual mooring at Fåglarö (Birds Island).
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Just for an hour, or two.
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This is not a suitable mooring for the night, the bay is too large, if the wind changes it may be tough! |
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The water temperature was only for footbaths.
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Hotdogs and Chorizos made the day!
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Late August
070821
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We took the Tuesday off, because
it may be the last fine day.
North eastern wind, 5-9 m/sec, but we found a calm mooring behind an island where we enjoyed some grilled Stockholmers and Sorunda Cheese Sausages.
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But first Henrik had an appointment with Neptune even this year. | This is the first swim for me in
the Baltic this summer, in the amaizing temperature of I think around
21-22 °C. I believe it took me around an hour to clean the bottom from barnacles and weed. I was a little worried that Curette was overgrown in the bottom, since we have been on vacation abroad and left her all alone for five weeks, but it was just a couple of dozens barnacles and weed from the waterline and a few inches down.
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Henrik found plenty of Moon Jellyfish. I believe they are a little early this summer, should not be arriving until September? |
Latest August
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We took this Thursday off too,
because now it feels like it could really be the last nice summer day.
It shows now a couple of days later that it really seems to have been the last nice summer day. Burr!
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A beautiful and intriguing sky!
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Against the sun, when it was
hiding behind a cloud. The tugboat Anny is still anchored in the bay.
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Henrik is cleaning the zink. | It's just that the new foot pump
is heavier than the previous one.
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A newcomer! |
When there is dense traffic in
the lane we pass this house so close that it's possible, if you raise the
voice a little, to say hello to the couple living there. Strange, but after the many tenth of thousands of boats that have passed here during the years, they still raise their hand in response to a greeting from a boat. A nice couple, and a nice house!
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This French guest at the wharf
will leave the boat here during the winter. Then he can return next summer for another part of the archipelago. I spent my childhood in the northern part of the Stockholm archipelago, and the last 25 years in the center and southern part. Despite this I can't say that I still know more than a fraction of the 24,000 islands the archipelago is said to consist of :-).
Now, when I'm writing this in early October I have to realize
that the summer probably is over. When I got the invoice I thought the boat was on dry land, so was not the case, and therefore the story continues.
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We finished the summer? with a
rocket icecream, as usual! :-))
Can you believe that Henrik actually tried to shoot me with the aircrafts's built-in machine gun, after I bought him an icecream? I can hardly believe it myself!
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Drysetting
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First Ice
071124
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I went down to the wharf for a
final check.
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With this night's -5˚C the first thin ice has begun to cover the calm bay. | |
Thanks! See Ya Next Year!
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