We had met and discussed the idea to team up for the season 2020 and make a statement about the gender in-equalities in general and in sailing specifically. The all-female sail racing team was in theory already a part of 100% Sun Wind Water. It was about time that we start sailing. Point of nu return and time for the team to be in charge of the keys to SY Johanna hed entered the stage. The team sailed us all the way out to the outskirts of the Stockholm archipelago – to the island Svenska Högarna. We arrived in pitch darkness at 04.00 AM. And wow, did we experience a classical guy-dominated sailing weekend out there. The classical male-only crews in the other boats could not avoid spotting
We were going to a cray fish party. To far away and too little wind for too long made us celebrate the cray fish tradition on a random tiny island north of Dalarö.
Sofija texted and invited us for a fika, but Janjarang and Christoph had to leave for their trip back home to Switzerland. So I dropped them off at Rödlöga and went to Njudholmen for that fika stop. Sofija had told me that there were some friends visiting their summer house. Yada yada yada before I knew it seven new happy crew members sat in and on the boat. Photo: Sofija Torebo.
They had never been sailing but their image of sailing up here was that ther was saunas all over the place. Cold water and hot saunas seemed exotic for Janjarang from Thailand and Christoph from Switzerland.
