June - 2018

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Jun 29, 2018

Think, draw, find, buy, build, install.

Spent almost all day to figure out how to design the thing. Thank goodness for the rich assortment of stuff they have at Erlandsson’s Brygga in Sisjön. Walking around for hours trying to make up my mind on how to build a steady platform making room for the micro plastic trawl, the 70W solar cell, the 4G Internet antenna and our plastic debris collection bins. It had to be super steady for wild waters, lightweight for the balance of the boat and look at least ok and respectful

Jun 28, 2018

Traveling back to the boat

Left Stockholm for Gothenburg, Långedrag Marina and GKSS. On a so called high-speed train through Swedish summer landscape. Any Chinese, Japanese or French train travelers would not be impressed by the speed, but possibly the view of he landscape. It was a beautiful day and not boring at all:-) Back onboard. It is always nice to get on the deck of S/Y Johanna and enjoy her sleek lines. The batteries seemed to have managed pretty well, and I prepared myself to spend two days d

Jun 24, 2018

Exam, Midsummer, Birthday, VOR finish line and work...

Time for some family business...woke up in Copenhagen. My son Johannes’ examination day at Copenhagen Business School. Shifting from a barefoot boat life into a university hall with students and parents. Then enjoying a great family dinner in a smart, really good and conscious Copenhagen restaurant (will come back to that when sailing into Copenhagen later on the trip). Next day, travel up to Stockholm to celebrate "Swedish Midsummer" with my sweet mum. Next morning celebrati

Jun 21, 2018

At the start of VOR's last leg

Wheehooo, this was one of the most exciting days in a long time. Leaving the marina and sliding out on Götaälv together with the legendary “Whitbread Armada” and then another day zig-zag sailing around them VOR-racers and spectators in pretty much wind:-) Got great help from a Norwegian random friend who more or less jumped onboard on my way out from the marina. Good to have four hands on a windy day like this:-) Thank you! Here you go folks, tried to film the start on the la

Jun 20, 2018

Meeting with Skipper Dee Caffari at the VOR Ocean Summit

Today I had all the luck a guy can have. Got a chance to personally salute a fenomenal ambassador for humanity, the oceans and the UN Sustainable Development Goals – aka Agenda 2030 – Skipper Dee Caffari, sailing for the United Nations in the Volvo Ocean Race boat Turn The Tide On Plastic. We met at the Gothenburg Ocean Summit – a very interesting day with great speakers and panel discussions with reps within the top layers of decision making in Sweden and from around the wor

Jun 17, 2018

Arriving at the Volvo Ocean In-Port Race

Ihaaaaaa....arrived last night at Långedrag Marina and today we made Johanna ready to set sails for the mighty Volvo Ocean Gothenburg In-Port Race...as a spector of course, but anyway. Together with a German 50-footer we were the only ones sailing...meaning zig-zagging back-and-fourth inbetween lots of spectator boats, military patrol boats and the Swedish Sea Rescue Society ships. It was fun, wild and partly risky as the dicipline about the marine rules on who shall avoid wh

Jun 14, 2018

"We will replace your pod drive"

Something like that was the text message I met when switching on my mobile phone waking up back on Koster Island. Today I was in Skärhamn. The super friendly guy running the crane lifted the boat in an instant, the super skilled Torqeedo-dealers delivered the new updated pod drive version and shifted it fairly easy – even if they had to use a hand crafted instant stick for a certain "get-the-new-cable-through-the-hole-maneuver". And yes, the new updated pod drive started fine

Jun 12, 2018

Grebbestad-Smögen-Skärhamn

Great two days. Starting off in rain at a sweet local cafe and bakery in Grebbestad, then setting sails and leaving for Smögen. From rain and no wind into sunshine and strong winds together with my daughter Julie 22 as crew. Then next day arriving in Skärhamn marina at 10 PM in a gorgeous sunset. Arriving Skärhamn... Leaving Grebbestad (testing exporting video to 480p) Getting closer to Smögen/Kungshamn (testing exporting video to 720p)

Jun 10, 2018

Change of plans – heading for Skärhamn

Leaving Koster islands – one of the sunniest islands in Sweden due to statistics by the way – we charged our batteries with pleasure. I received a text message from our Torqeedo dealer Henrik: "Go to Skärhamn, we will replace your pod drive with an updated version". Ok, so it will be. We sailed on and stopped for the night at a random rock. This news fast forwarded the journey and unfortunately the booked meeting with Linnea Sjögren and Jonas Pettersson at Catxalot in Havsten

Jun 9, 2018

Breakfast – time to test the sun cooker

It is a simple idea. Use the sun beams to generate heat and cook food or boil water with it. In Oslo at the Sail Off Ceremony we served cooked carrots. Worked perfectly fine. Today was the day we tried to cook scrambled eggs... We got our scrambled eggs fairly scrambled alright, and they tasted GREAT! Knowing we used nothing to get them cooked feels like a extra tasty add-on. However, floating liquids is perhaps not the best to cook in a tube if you sit on a moving vessel...o