Spent almost all day figuring 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 microplastic 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

Left Stockholm for Gothenburg, Långedrag Marina and GKSS. On a so-called high-speed train through the Swedish summer landscape. Any Chinese, Japanese or French train travelers would not be impressed by the speed, but possibly the view of the 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 d

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 enjoy 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). The next day, travel up to Stockholm to celebrate "Swedish Midsummer" with my sweet mum. The next morning cel

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 of 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 last

Today I had all the luck a guy can have. Got a chance to personally salute a phenomenal 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 w

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 spectator of course, but anyway. Together with a German 50-footer, we were the only ones sailing...meaning zig-zagging back-and-fourth between lots of spectator boats, military patrol boats, and the Swedish Sea Rescue Society ships. It was fun, wild, and partly risky as the discipline about the marine rules on who shall avoi

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, and 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

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 the sunshine and strong winds together with my daughter Julie 22 as crew. Then the next day arriving at 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)

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 Havste

It is a simple idea. Use the sunbeams to generate heat and cook food or boil water with them. 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 all right, and they tasted GREAT! Knowing we used nothing to get them cooked feels like an extra tasty add-on. However, floating liquids are perhaps not the best to cook in a tube if you sit on a moving vess