Sailing – Page 12 – Sailing with Saphir

We got help

Thursday morning Edgar email Orust yacht once again and at 8.30 we had help. This time it was a full day to fix everything so we have electricity in the boat. The result is that we had to get a new AIS (the equipment that make us see other boats and they can see us in our navigation plot) the charing of our battery is not working fully as it should also need some new things to our water maker to make it work again. These things will come later when we are in Stavanger we hope. Luckily they had an AIS in Henån so Edgar drove done to get it while the guy from Orust yacht continued fixing other things on the water maker. Now we will test and see what works and what don’t.

The weather was nice so me and Elise took a walk to the bathing cliffs and I took a dip (17degrees) It was not many gelly fish as the day before .

We had a very nice sunset befor an early bedtim due to an very early start to go to Kragerö in Norway. We left the harbour at 03.30 and it was calm . Coming out of the archipelago we got the wrong wind and sea from the side so quite rough. Happy that I could get back to bed and sleep.

Arrived to Kragerö/Morholmen at around lunchtime which means it took us 9hours to get there. Resting fixing sleeping dinner at Deborah and Magnus place. After brunch we went in to Kragerö for some shopping, Louise arrived from Stockholm in the afternoon. Pick up by Magnus brother and their mother that kindly took her to us since the bus connection didn’t wait for her. In the evening we had a lovely dinner at Morholmen together with some of the family and friend.

Hugs Eva

Not the best start!

The weather was nice, a bit cold but sunny and not so much wind so it was better to go by motor so we wouldn’t be to late in Lysekil. The sea was a bit rough for 15 min and that made some chaos in the boat. But it was easy to clean up.

I am not sure if it is a good idé to have Elise on board when we start our sailing. Every time she has join us from start something happens with the boat so also this time…. Or maybe it is good because we are close to the Henån service and can get help… so what happen ?? Arriving to Lysekil the bow thruster stop working. Edgar made sure that we didn’t have anything in our bow thruster with the help of our go pro and a stick. And as this was not enough, in the morning the engine didn’t start. Luckily one of the guys from Henån came up to help us. We started to prepare so he could get down in the front of the boat by emptying the storage space. That’s where you can get to the bow thrust engine on. Luckily it was an easy fix and we could continue our sailing

We sailed for a while but not when we went through Sotenäs Canal. A very narrow canal with a bridge that kindly open when we came

Almost at Bovaldstrand our electricity died….. nothing was working no light no navigation so we had to do it the old fashion way using charts… or Edgar used his ipad to navigate the last way. We got safe in to the harbour and are moored with electricity from land. and got electricity from land.

So let’s see what happens now. Hope to get some help tomorrow….