Sailing the last mile into the heart of Stockholm was fabulous, Before docking at the pier outside our "base camp" Glashuset on Strandvägen, we just had to taste the sun, the wind and the water in front of the Royal Castle. And wave to the Royal family of course. Couldn't see that any of them waved back, but a few tourists outside the Grand Hôtel did in fact wave to us. Little did these friendly visitors know what they waved to: A climate statement project that just came sailing back from the other side of Sweden, Back home again after 3 years and 6.000 Nautical Miles. Back home after having been sent off from Oslo by an Admiral in the Royal Navy of Norway. Back again after having visited 7
We all know that the toxics from coating is a serious threat to the oceans. Up here in the Baltic Sea it is even worse as the circulation and inflow of fresh salt water is quite limited, but the dilemma is global. We simply have to stop using toxic paint on our hulls as well as the soft surface ones that are dropping micro particles into the water. Here we are using the scrubbing pad and scrubbing the hull from the pier...with good results. We missed one barnacle warning report earlier this summer so some marks from the ones we scraped off earlier are still there. After sailing with the fairly new brand SeaBoost under our water line during three seasons, we have to say that the really hard c
