We stayed in Visby only for a couple of days from Friday (June 13) to Sunday (June 15). Visby is a classic summer destination for many Swedes and tourists from other surrounding countries so when we sailed to Visby we were thinking about doing some bicycle tours, going for long walks along the beach under…
Leg 2 – Shake off to Gotland
As long as we stay tied up to the dock, we will always have something new to buy or something to fix. Lovisa is ready but she is a sailboat and a sailboat always needs something. We need to go now! It is also quite interesting how much things we believe we need when we…
Leg 1 – Let’s get started !
The start motor and the generator that we replaced are working fine, the cooling hoses that we replaced are tight, the sails are mounted, the water and diesel tanks are full. We are ready to get out of Göta Kanal and go for a first sailing ! We departed from Norshom through Göta Kanal towards…
Launching
Monday 21st April, time to move the boat out of the hangar so we can paint the hull with antifouling. After 7 months standstill in the hangar, Lovisa started to move again. Now the trips begins! We chose Monday 28th April for splash day. Lovisa with the new antifouling and the polished and waxed hull…
Leg 0 – Summer 2024
We bought Lovisa at the end of the 2023 summer season and we sailed her only a few weekends. The willingness to set sail towards the Caribbean already in summer 2024 was strong since we knew Lovisa was close to ready to go, but after mature reflection, we decided to stay in Sweden that summer…