Sailing Lovisa

It took us four months to sail the 2800 nautical miles to Lanzarote in the Canary Islands from Kalvholmen, our home harbor in Sweden. The Caribbeans never felt so close even though Barbados, the closest island of the Caribbean from Canary Islands is still about 2600 nautical miles away from Lanzarote. This is nearly ten…

As we arrived in our anchorage in Porto Santo by night and in the dark we had really no idea about how this place would look like. We discovered the surroundings of our anchorage only the next morning. Arrivals by night are actually a very funny experience; we could be anchoring in an ugly industrial…

We anchored in Cascais on Sunday (September 14) and got welcomed with winds up to 15 m/s. This is only as far as we happened to be looking at the wind instrument… We laid 40 m of chain in the 7 m depth (depth at high tide), we set up 2 anchor alarms and cancelled…

We left Baiona on Sunday (August 31) at sunrise, 8:00 and started our way towards Portugal. We rounded Cape Silleiro to then progress south on engine for a couple of hours as no wind was blowing. The wind then slowly picked up allowing us to stop the engine and continue on sail alone. After about…

We arrived in Cabo de Cruz hoping to find support to solve our outboard engine problem and get the broken part of the windvane welded. We were hoping to get them fixed within 2 days. Instead everything got fixed in just a few hours thanks to an efficient harbor master with a lot of contacts…

21 Years after her first crossing of Bay of Biscay in 2004 (at that time she did it from Kingsale in Ireland), Lovisa is once again in A Coruña. A Coruña is harbor where many sailors on the way to or from France stay either to wait for a good weather window to cross Bay…

We stayed in Camaret-sur-Mer 5 days during which we got the visit of Emilien’s family during a couple of days. Thank you so much for joining us in our journey! The two of us did not share the same enthusiasm regarding the opportunity Brittany provides to eat fresh oysters (someone onboard loves oysters – guess…

We stayed in Dieppe 4 nights from Friday (July 19) to Tuesday (July 22). It sounds a lot when we write it but we feel we had only a very short stay there. Could it be because we spent an entire day just to dry the boat (see Leg 6)? At the end we had…

We left Kalvholmen just about a month ago and we are already in Belgium! Sailing along Germany and the Netherlands still felt like being in the surroundings of Sweden because we see a lot of boats from these countries when sailing along the Swedish east coast. But Belgian flags in the Swedish archipelago is more…

We spent 3 nights in Laboe nearby Kiel. And something a bit unusual so far, we had nothing really to fix on the boat! We took the time we had to relax after what felt like a long journey from Bornholm and read a bit about how it works to enter in the Kiel Canal,…