Limone - Happy indepence day Finland

Today we celebrate Finland's independence day by making some traditional Finnish foods and maybe watching the 1995 ice hockey finals where the "Finnish Lions" scored gold.Time surely flies when you are at sea. Just when we have adjusted to our 40ft world the trip is almost over! Daily routines keep us busy; breakfast, sailing, tuning, lunch, sailing, coffee, fishing (16:30 mahi-mahi) dinner, night watch and sleep. Repeat this long enough and you will surely end up into some new shore somewhere. Everybody are well on board. Our personal Tanning Coach Anssi has been working hard and our pale skins are getting some color. All the fresh vegetables are gone but we are still eating reasonably well. Fishing has turned out total of 9 mahi-mahi'sbut zero tuna. Where did they all go?. read more...

Limone - Sea legs and first catch

Crew is slowly setting to the pace of watch keeping, sleeping and eating. The latter got just whole lot better since mahi-mahi started to join the party and so far we have managed to get two on board.Skipper has been busy with the usual boat stuff, instructing, fixing and tweaking to keep the boat in one piece. Timo took the role of watch captain and we have had strict order with lunch and dinner coming at 1200 and 1800 boat time.We are using the main electric motor (Oceanvolt) to generate power to the big propulsion battery and hydro generator (Wattandsea) to run the house loads. So far we have managed to keep both batteries at full level.So all in all life looks good and we are looking forward for the next day of sailing and fishing! Just under 2000 nautical miles to go so plenty of. read more...