Fyrudden is a very small guest harbour with one small shop, for the first time we had to raft up alongside another yacht, our main reasons for coming into harbour are food and up to date weather information, it's been so changeable that we need to keep an eye on the forecast. We only stayed one night as the next day was going to give us a fair wind for going south even though it was going to be a strong one f5/6 we felt we could cover a few miles, we ended up cov...

We left Arkosund for the natural harbour of Väggö, we had a very quite night at anchor with only one other yacht for company. We saw a large eagle with a white tail flying over the trees.

We are in port waiting!! A gale is coming through tonight,over 40 knots expected so rather than sit in an anchorage hoping that our anchor holds, tied up in a nice safe Marina looked the best option. Been out walking in a lot better weather than expected. It's very interesting to see how the houses are built, because the ground is bedrock the houses are designed around the rocks they sit on, no deep footings needed. Last night a Finish yacht came in about 22.00 w...

We limped into here this morning with no throttle cable, it was the warmest day so far of the year not ideal to spend down in the engine room. As it turned out there was a shop here that stocked everything, they had a new cable, by lunch time it was all repaired. I then had my first swim of the summer to cool off. There is a small ship museum in the town, they were having an Elvis evening as it's the 4th of July, we were made very welcome by there chairman, a for...

After a tiresome day updating the plotters software we left Mariefred in the evening with everything working again, we had a fridge full of food and planned to spend a few nights at anchor. Our first night was still in Lake Malaren where we anchored all on our own in a very quite bay, about 21.00 we had a rainstorm come through giving us a fantastic rainbow, we also watched a Marsh Harrier trying unsuccessfully to take a baby duck from its mother. Day 2 Out of ...