Class J: "la classe"

Tacking in the Stockholm sound. Impressive.

Start of the return journey - La Malouine goes back to La Rochelle - 26 May 2016

Thursday 26, after working hours, we were driven to Rangsta to bring La Malouine from there to Södertälje, in order to ensure that the crew coming from France to bring La Malouine back there, can easily access her through public transport. Rain, fog and cold...

This its the reverse trip as the one that took place at the end of September, when I brought back La Malouine from Löparö to Rangsta. In September, Käringholmen had long been abandoned by mating cormorans, and was left to her ghost status after life was pretty much killed by their dejections. End of May, June is the bird mating time, and thousands of them are nesting on such islands in the archipelago. You can smell them miles ahead...

Käringholmen, in May, when cormorans are mating

Last week in Rangsta for La Malouine

Brudskär, the island of the bride, is the small island facing Rangsta Brygga, where La Malouine was attached for the past 8 years. Whenever arriving or leaving Rangsta, I always stop there for a minute. This week will be the last week that La Malouine will be placed there, and I will miss the place.

Brudskär, 58°59.419'N 17°44.923'E

From Pampas to Vasahamnen - First move for the season

Today is the big day, awaited all along the freezing winter, the first day that we release the mooring lines for the season. As a sign, my coffee welcomes me with an apparition.

Shoal of fishes - 2 May 2016

I could not resist the picture, having come across large shoals of fishes on the way back from Podgorica. This is a call!

6 May, back to water!

Sjösättning is an institution in Sweden. After a month of working in the shipyard to get ready for the return to water, two cranes are rented to get all boats at sea at once. Such a good feeling.

Rangsta båtklubb

Piraeus - April 2016

This is Piraeus, couple of weeks ago. What a harbour should not be, filled with travellers stranded on their way.