Page 2 of Dawnbreaker Travel Blog Posts


Europe » United Kingdom » England » Kent June 2nd 2008

Monday 2nd June Lowestoft - Ramsgate Departure Lowestoft: 5,55am. Outside navigator not working, must be water loged with all the water from the Gale force winds during Monday last week. May have to check with nearest dealer which is in Deal, that’s closest to Ramsgate. Well not needed, just needed to dry out a bit. Started working later on. Winds are nearly nothing at the moment. We are following the markers out of Lowestoft. We have the current with us which is great. We’re doing around 10-11 knots. Winds are 3,5 - knots. A little misty but it’s easy to see. The depths outside Great Yarmouth/Lowestoft are always changing because of the sands and currents and on MaxSea Navigator caution is advised by checking marker and buoyed channels. Sails up at 11.50am. Raining so I ... read more
Adam having a go at sailing
Eve and Julie finding it a bit chilly.
What's Julie doing? Pic-a-bo who's there

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Norfolk » Norwich May 22nd 2008

22nd May 2008 - 9th July It’s best if I just start with a summary of our journey so far: Thursday 22nd May - Sunday 25th May Långedrag (Sweden) - Hartlepool Marina (England) Lars and I were going to meet relatives in Hartlepool, Lowestoft and Ramsgate. When we left Sweden we had 3 extra crew members who were going to sail with us over Kattegatt and the North Sea. They were Thomas Ohlsson, Sanna Ohlsson (Thomas’s daughter) and Birger Ericson. It took us 65 hours to cross from Sweden to England and sail into Hartlepool Marina. Nothing very exciting happened on the way. The sea was calm at the start, winds blowing just enough to sail and no one feeling sea-sick. We found out during our journey that we had forgotten to do two things before ... read more
Diane,Tim and Lars in Hartlepool
Captain taking a break
Dawnbreaker in Lowestoft


Dear Friends and Relatives, I know I've been behind on writting my blogg which began on 22nd May to The Mediterranean but now I've got it together and hopefully while I'm in ALICANTE, Spain, YES, that's where we are at this very moment. More details to arrive very soon, with lots of lovely photo's from our trip's to alot of lovely places. So I hope you'll wait. If anyone is not interested in receiving my blogg and is still on my address list, just let me know and you will be deleted and you won't hear any more from Lars or I. Caroline... read more

Europe » Svalbard » Spitsbergen August 15th 2007

After our departure (Viola and myself) the crew of Dawnbreaker were as follows: Lars - Captain Uno, Urban and Thomas - First mate Eva, Sanna and Pontus - deck hands For the first time since our journey started, Dawnbreaker had a full crew + extras. Dawnbreaker has 5 places to sleep with extra if need be (3 extra), then it's the floor for the rest of the crew. So, I left Lars to look after so many members that to cook and keep everyone happy must of been some kind of miracle. 15th August Sunday Longyearbyn to Pyramiden Everyone on board decides, after getting sleeping arrangements sorted, that it would be nice to go somewhere before the Wedding arrangements which starts tomorrow (Monday) with a rehearsal at the Church for the Bride and Groom. A short ... read more
What is left of the Russian Mining Town
The Coalminers Memorial
As it is after everyone left "Pyraminden"

Europe » Sweden » Västra Götaland County » Gothenburg July 21st 2007

Today I received the following sent to us by Satilite e-mail, if you would like to send our sailors an e-mail which has to be short for them to receive it, their e-mail address is SIGF@sailmail.com. E-Mail sent 20th July Hello again Carol, yesterday we saw one whale where we saw 3 last time. When we turned into Magdalenafjorden we saw the polar bears again, this time swimming in the water. First we saw the mother and the cubs and a bit later we also saw the male in the water. In the evening when we were ancored inside graveneset the wind turned and the bay filled with talking ice from the glacier. Very nice. Now we are motoring again against wind and waves towards Woodfjorden around the top end of Svalbard. It is supposed to ... read more

Europe » Sweden » Västra Götaland County » Gothenburg July 20th 2007

20th July 2007 Viola and I left Dawnbreaker very early on 15th July. We had a taxi booked for 6:45am as our flight was at 8:00am. When we were waiting we all noticed that everyone around both that morning and the night before, had been going around Longyearbyn with rifles. At that time of the morning you wouldn't think there were too many people around but there were. It seemed like a very inquisative Polar Bear had been seen swimming around the sailing boats in the Harbour. The Sysslemannen had the Helicopter out to try and scare him out of the village. We got all this information from our Taxi driver. Viola SMS the info over to Uno and we left them to get on with it. Our flight back went very quickly plus getting to ... read more

Europe » Svalbard » Spitsbergen July 18th 2007

So we continue Dawnbreakers trip to the Ice Pack with a crew of seven. Lars, Uno, Urban, Thomas, Eva, Sanna and Pontus. I've just noticed that I've been putting the wrong dates to my last Travelblog. It should say July and not August. Sorry about that little mistake. Wednesday 18th July 2007 Longyearbyn - Selvaagen After a wonderful few days in Longyearbyn, what with a Wedding,Dinner etc, today starts slowly. Everyone feels good after yesterdays adventures and on board are a new married couple Thomas and Eva. Congrats from everyone reading our blog. Urban has taken over my job (Caroline)with the Log Book. It's in Swedish so everything I wrote in the last blog and the continuation is a translation of what Urban has written until his departure in August. Thank you Urban. 12:40 pm Today ... read more
Whales sighted
Cramped, too many boats
Floating ice bergs

Europe » Svalbard » Spitsbergen July 14th 2007

7th July Saturday Mariaholmen/Bellsund - Longyearbyn Today everyone is up early. We want to visit the Hermit on the Island not far from us. Six in our dinght must look very strange. It’s a fair size boat but six audults is a bit much. We took a short cut to the Hunter/Hermits home. We only just made it, the tide was going out. We knocked on jis door but there was no answer, it wa also bolted so today we were unlucky. We believe he collects feathers from the nests of the Eider ducks who have their young around his area. 11:30 am It’s going to be a long day as we’re going the rest of the way to Longyearbyn. At first we have no wind so sailing turns to motoring. Later in the day ... read more
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Europe » Sweden » Västra Götaland County » Gothenburg June 28th 2007

I've started a blogg and will over the next couple of days send everyone updates from the start of our journey, taken directly from our Log book, with photo's etc.. everyone is invited to send their comments as I go along. If you have troubles etc, let me know by sending me an e-mail thru my original e-mail address. Please be patient with me, it's alot of info. I won't be taken every day but some that I think will be interesting plus photo's. I'd like to thank everyone that has sent e-mails, SMS etc from the last couple of e-mails I've sent to all family and friends. Love, hugs Caroline... read more

Europe » Svalbard » Spitsbergen June 27th 2007

27th June Wednesday Valvaagen - Tromsoe 10:00 am Not much for Gerd and Jonas to do but gather their belongings and start packing. Tomorrow will be their last hours with us. 8:00 am is their departure time. Everyone was quite relaxed thoughout the journey to Tromsoe. Lunch was fish cakes, all the leftovers from the last couple of days. Tonight everyone wants a bloody steak. It’s been cloudy all day and it’s starting to rain hard just outside of Tromsoe. 17:45 pm On our arrival we see that “Joyant” (Tom and Dorothy) are already here. They arrived around mid-day. First we moored on “Lupus” a large pilot boat. Just as we finished the Harbour Master arrived and said the “Lupus” was on call all today/night, so it was not wise to stay. We moved over ... read more
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