AinaMarie

On Sunday we filled some diesel at the marina, and went on our way to Loch Ness. We anchored up outside urquart castle, fired up the grill and drooled for some biff and sosauges. But unbelievably we had the German boat from the first lock beside us, some 20 meters away. They didn't like the grilling apparently, one guy came to the bow of their boat and complained that the grill could damage his rolled up genoa. We quickly decided that his request for us putting out the grill, and missing out on our dinner was unacceptable, ignoring him worked just fine, and the food was great. Afterwards we had a little whisky tasting with some 5cl bottles Olav had bought and when they were empty we went over to the big bottles. The morning after ... read more

Next stop Wick and for what it seemed like, it was an abandon town. On one of the first corner we past, there was a small beautiful but dead rabbit on the ground, with a tight red ribbon around its throat. Abandon may be a wrong word, since there were people there, mostly driving by or some crewcut kids on bicycles. All the building around seamed so dead, colorless and sad, though the raining light fog may have been a contributing factor, or maybe it was that three out of five stores we past had been boarded up and closed for ever as it seemed. A positive surprise was the brand new, high quality marina. We asked the harbor officer, and he told us that the marina actually was just a week old. He could also ... read more

We stayed in Bergen for 3 days, during that time Arne and Olav came on board, and on the 24th, we left to join the shetland-race. The weather was warm and sunny while we were in Bergen, but I think I had too high expectations for the visit. It was a very nice place, and people there were happy to stop for a talk, but the tourism there were a little to big for my taste. And also I had heard that Bergen had those little special shop, but I coldn´t find any. Maybe I went to the wrong places, but all i saw were common everyday stores, that you find in more or less any larger town. At the beginning of the shetland-race it went very well, although we came a bit to late to ... read more

14.6 09, at 05:00 in the morning( Norwegian time) we(Jorgen and me) left Oslo on our way to Stavern. It was a 12 hour Journey, were we almost at once got to test one of our new foresail, a genaker. It was a sunny and comfortable ride with the 3-7 m/s, down wind. I even got a tan, and a red nose... even though I used sun factor 50. Unfortunaly we didnt get to see much of the town, we were just to tired. The next day we startet at 07:00 am. The wind was a bit stronger today, and the waves bigger. We stopped at Arendal to buy some food and relax a bit. Before the sun went down we got on our boat, on our way to Kristiansand. We sailed throughout the night and ... read more