We anchored off their local beach for the afternoon enjoying a few swims before going up about a two mile river to the town, we found the jetty with the big crane and waited for Morten to arrive he said to be ready at 0800 in the morning. He had another yacht to lift with a propeller problem, he got to us about 09.00. We were soon out and hanging from the strops. I had told him I thought we weighed about 8 tons his crane could lift 12 tons, in fact we were 11 ton...

We came to Omo island as it was recommended by somebody we met. It is 4 x 2 km in size with about 150 inhabitants. A peaceful place he said !! It was not mentioned in any of our books, so we only had the chart info to work by. The harbour was quite full but yachts kept coming in till after dark, by the time we went to sleep we were in a line of four yachts, they were quite small folk boats!! We presumed they couldnt of even had a bucket to pee in as they were acr...

Denmark We only had 25 nm to travel but the wind was on exactly the line we needed to go, so with a few tacks it turned into 35 nm. We sailed all the way, others were in a hurry and were using there engines. First sight of the harbour was not great as it was a working shipyard. We went into town to do some shopping and have a look round, there is a lot of history in the town with shipbuilding and fishing. We thought it was very busy. Brenda asked the harbour mas...