Ivanhoe is a 54ft Aluminium sailing boat that is in total disrepair. I fly to Australia just to look this boat over and to see if it's the right project for us ...
In this episode our granddog Nora (aka hairy grandchild) and her parents come and sail with us. We are in for a surprise, when we hardly recognize the son, who ...
The Stockholm Archipelago could be one of the best cruising grounds in the world! With its 30 000 islands you have unlimited options to drop your hook or moor ...
The Archipelago shows its best side to us. We start up with Jeanettes return from Stockholm city centre on a Classic Archipelago boat, that still runs on ...
This week on Distant Shores, we take you to the Solent in the United Kingdom where where we test drive our new ePropulsion electric outboard motor, learn how ...
When we are cruising in the Stockholms archipelago, Jeanette had to go into Stockholm for a meeting and the best way is to take the Waxholms boat into ...
On our cruise in the Stockholm archipelago, the daughter with boyfriend and friends shows up and gives Fredrik a fast ride! At least Fredrik thinks it was ...
Our cruise continues and we anchor in the Paradise at Jolpan and visit Finnhamn. Exploring the island finding a farm where we can buy fresh eggs produced by ...
At the start of our summer cruising in the Stockholm Archipelago we make a stop at Träskö Storö and are invited onboard Vedjakten (freely translated to logg ...
Sailing the Stockholm Archipelago heading to the OSK pre-summer meeting where Fredrik have his first sauna for the season. He is a strong believer that sauna ...
We are starting up our summer sailing heading towards the OSK pre-summer meeting which we will show in the next episode. In this episode it's easy sailing in ...
Sailing the Stockholm Archipelago it seems like we go through a Swedish Navy operation, maybe they are out practicing for Swedens new NATO membership. We ...
Is 4.64 meters too wide for Sweden’s narrowest canal? Probably. But that didn’t stop us from trying! On our way home, we took the infamous shortcut through ...
We set off from Kalmar and make a pit stop on the island Öland then sail up the Swedish East Coast. We end with a magic evening, that is a perfect start to the ...
We move aboard our new Enksail Orion 49 aluminum sailboat and take the boat out for her first sail! Join us for a boat tour as we see the transformation from a ...
The new Danish Royal couple, King Frederik X and Queen Mary, made their first state visit abroad to Sweden. After their partying in Stockholm we met the Danish ...
This time on Distant Shores we take our new Enksail Orion 49 aluminum sailboat on her first sea trial to test out the engine and systems, the 3 rudder ...
Just as we're about to start sea trials, a few more items need troubleshooting on our new Enksail Orion 49 sailboat, all part of the commissioning process of a ...
Finally we start to make our way towards Sweden! We leave Warnemunde in Germany and after a few tacks and an uncomfortable sail we make a short stop in ...
We take the short cut into through Germany into the Baltic Sea on our way to home waters. There we will spend the summer doing easy cruising in the fantastic ...
We leave Guernsey early in the morning to have the currant with us going thru the Alderney race. It is surprisingly confused sea even though we have wind and ...
We're starting up the new season 2024 with showing you how we ended last season, where we had to be towed into harbour by Sea Rescue (Sjöräddningsällskapet). ...
A telephone call can change your whole world. This is what happens to us when our sail up the Atlantic coast of Ireland comes to an end, and our sailing plans ...
Who would have thought we would find a Caribbean beach on Inishkea on the Wild Atlantic side of Ireland? In 1930 Inishkea was abandoned after a tragic accident ...