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We don’t often go out for meals, so we were thrilled when we stepped into Toast Diner on St. Croix and discovered they had a lot of vegetarian options.
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Fajardo & Culebra
We continue to wait here in Puerto Rico for the order that Seldén messed up, it has become a long wait and at times tedious, but life could be worse than anchoring off beautiful islands in the Caribbean. Our pantry is well stocked, so we have been hanging out at various natural harbors and the …
Puerto Rico
We have been sailing in Puerto Rico for three weeks already, hard to believe! Our arrival was timed to pick up friends from Sweden, who planned on spending Easter with us. Entering the US on a sailboat was a new experience for us, and the US has been the most difficult country to enter by …
Green Flash
One thing that people talk about when sailing the Caribbean is the “green flash” – that elusive bit of green color that the sun shows upon sunset. So far after three months of sailing, we have seen it once. Before having seen it, when I had just heard about it, I imagined the sky turning …
Leeward Islands
We have been in the Caribbean for over three months now, hard to believe. Some of our favorite spots in recent sailing have been the Iles des Saintes just south of Guadeloupe, and the islands of Antigua and Barbuda. Iles des Saintes for the combination of protected anchorage, variety of snorkeling options and easy walks …
Topping Up
Since we left the Canary Islands, we have only spent a few nights in a harbor, and only once have we connected our electrical cable to the power supply at the harbor. This is possible due to the support systems that we installed before taking off. As there are only two of us on the …
Clearing In and Out
When you arrive in a new country in a sailboat, you have to raise the “Q” flag, which is a yellow flag, on the starboard (right) side of the boat. This shows your intention to clear in to the country, and you are allowed a little time between when you arrive and when you go …
Windward Islands
It’s been almost a month since our last blog post, we have been sailing the Windward Islands of the Caribbean. That is Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada & Carriacou, and Martinique. January started off wonderfully, we had a gorgeous lobster dinner on the beach in the Tobago Cays with our buddy boat …
Two Saints
We landed in Saint Lucia on 11 December 2023, and are in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) for New Year’s Eve. Having watched a lot of sailing videos and talking to people about the Caribbean, I had a lot of preconceived notions about what it would be like in the Caribbean. It has been …
Across the pond
On Monday 11 December 2023 at 16:15 local time, Lulu crossed the finish line of the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC) after 22 days and 7 hours of sailing. It was our first ever race, so all the official start countdowns and finish line confirmations were new for us, and made it extra special. The …
T -1 Day
The big day is finally here, we have been actively working towards our departure date for a year and we are excited and happy to be this close to the start. Today we just did small jobs on the boat, we have been provisioning food and stockpiling spare parts for the boat and the boat …
Canary Islands
We have been in the Canary Islands for over a month now, and really enjoyed being here. In a post on our Facebook account, I noted that it felt like holiday. That’s because the trip down from Sweden was fairly hectic, we pushed hard to move and there was a lot of stress along the …
100 Days
We have now been on our trip for 100 days, some days it doesn’t seem like we can have been gone that long, but when we look back at different places we have visited, some of them seem like a very long time ago. If you want to follow our trip, we have activated our …
Life Under Passage
On 15 September 2023 we completed our longest passage to date, a 4-day sail from Nazaré on the Portuguese west coast to Porto Santo in the Madeira archipelago. Life on passage is a mixture of inactivity and constant activity. The boat is in continuous motion, it rolls from side to side or up and down …
Eating Onboard
Life onboard means of course eating onboard, and the more we can cook onboard, the more economical our trip will be. Generally we always eat breakfast onboard, although we have taken advantage of harbors like Zeebrugge where they delivered fresh baked bread and pastries every morning; or shopped in A Coruna where we could pick …
Galicia, Spain
After leaving Luarca, we have been sailing west along the northern coast of Spain, landing in A Coruna on the 15th of August. The first night there we spent at anchor in front of a lovely beach, then the next morning we moved over to the harbor, ultimately spending four nights there. The harbor was …
Biscaya!
Sailing across the Bay of Biscay has been a milestone for us. Partly because it has a bad reputation for having rough seas, and partly because it would be our longest single stretch so far. We are making our way down to Las Palmas, and looking for a weather window. It looked good early in …
A cool, cool Summer
When we packed for our trip, we thought sun, summer and warm days. So far we have had about 4, the rest have been at or below 20 degrees C or about 68 F. This morning it was 14 degrees at the harbor, in the low 50’s F. Therefore if you are looking at our …
North Atlantic Sailing
We think we know why there are no popular YouTube channels cruising the North Atlantic coasts. It’s not been easy cruising! We have seen amazing views, had a lot of dramatic weather, and moved from point A to point B. But not so much good sailing or summer-type weather. However, we have spent over 40 …
Trip to date – 30 July 2023
We set sail on 25 June from Gothenburg, and it has been a fantastic trip so far. Some days it’s hard, but we knew it would be hard and after some sleep or chocolate it is usually better! We are keeping a trip log in the beautiful log book that Magnus father hand-made for us, …