We have made good use of favorable winds during the last three days, zooming from Strandby in the far north of Denmark to Sønderborg in the south, next the border […]

Yesterday we were in Sweden, and today we made Denmark!  It is small, in the big scheme of things, but it feels like substantial movement, the first step in a […]

We were supposed to have left yesterday, but did not leave until today. We’d done a systems check a couple of days ago, but somehow the “OK” button on the […]

Goodbye, Smögen! We’ll be sailing south today, out into the Kattegat, the sea that stretches south down the west coast of Sweden.  The Kattegat can be tricky to navigate, because […]

There was a lot to do on the boat to get it ready for the trip home.  She hadn’t been out of the water since Turkey.  There were some problems […]

Sometimes we look back at our blog and think that we’ve captured some nifty images of our trip over time.  But then we take a look at some of the […]

The beginning of July found us on Smögen, enjoying long days that stretch into short twilighty nights. We had a picnic one day with our friends the Sporrangs. Albin Sporrong is something special […]

Foxes feature in some of the children’s books we read to the kids.  Alexander had a fear of them for  a while, liking them with tough and nasty wolves.  There are a […]

We left Leander in Smögen on Sweden’s west coast for the winter season, and came back to the Boston area to live for the winter.  We rented a home in Marblehead, […]