We arrived here in Ronne on the sunny island of Bornholm yesterday evening after. 13 hour sail from Klintholm. Ronne is the capital of the island. Bornholm has its own language known as old east Danish or half Swedish it also has its own climate giving cool springs and warm Indian summers. It's famous for its round churches and the Hammershus castle, the largest medieval ruined castle in Northern Europe. There are 14/15 yacht harbours on the island this is now t...

Yesterdays wind has all but gone, we woke to flat calm and sunshine. We left at 05.30 as our distance to run is 80 nm. We are motoring and with our new 3 blade propeller we feel we are making about half a knot faster for the same engine speed.

After finally getting back to the island we had to wait a day as a gale blew through 41 knots of wind. We left this morning for Denmark 50 nm away. It is a lovely sunny day but still blowing a F6 gusting 7 with a forecast of it dropping by lunch time, the wind is behind us so good speeds, but after the gale there were big seas running. We made Klintholm in 10 hours only to find most of the CA yachts there that left on Tuesday. We all met up on one of there boats ...

The campervan outside a garage. This was supposed to be us leaving around the Baltic but instead of driving home from picking up Brenda and going sailing. We spent the night here with a dead van, we got back to Bunnybee late in the afternoon after a long slow train journey, thanks to Mike and Helen for the lift back from the station saving a long walk. the van may take weeks. We are now storm bound for a couple of days by a F6/7 coming through. We have had more ...

I have now been out for over a week working on the boat in preparation for the upcoming season, I am on my own as Brenda has stayed at home to attend the funeral of our good Freind Dennis Hill who with his wife Gill sailed the Gota canal with us last year. Having the extra time to prep the boat in is great and I'm getting through a list of jobs but it's also frustrating, the boat yard is a great place for meeting other yachtsman and discussing trips but then the...