Recent content by Kimmo

I'm of course biased, but I vote for Baltic sea, especially with the boat size you have. Even with strongish winds, the archipelago offers shelter from waves, meaning you can almost always sail. With Biscay (we rounded that pond in March/April) no shelter anywhere. Also Baltic sea has so many...

Here's one more link. It covers the harbours in Saimaa (Saimaan käyntisatamat): http://www.finnlake.com/kayntisatamat/eng/ http://www.finnlake.com/kayntisatamat/eng/?pg=info The book is only in Finnish, but it's mostly just symbols, which are universal. If you decide to buy that book, order...

Hello I don't really know if there is any pilot books or such for the Finnish lakes. Tried to Google information quickly, but didn't find anything useful. This is the official info about the canal. There's an email adress on the right side of the page. You could try to ask if they have any...

Hello Yes it's possible to sail on the Lake Saimaa and Lappeenrata, Kuopio and several other interesting places are easy to visit. If your mast is less than 12 meters, you can continue past Kuopio too. The Wiki article seems to be correct. The height of the bridges in Saimaa and the Canal are...

We werre in Dielette about a month ago. At that time they were dredging the outer harbour, which meant that the entrance was very narrow. If the dredger would still be at the harbour, I would not want to go into the harbour on any significant wind.

Before we left for our one year cruise, the few funniest (or silliest) question that our friends asked from us were: - What are you going to eat? - Can you watch TV? Also a skipper of a brand new 43 footer when we told him that we were leaving with our 40 year old 30 footer asked: - With...

That particular case which I mentioned, we were waiting for the lock to open, no other boats anywhere. We got into the lock, tied up. Suddenly however three French motor boats appeared around the bend. We were already as far forward of the lock as possible and the next bollard would have been on...

We've now gone without wind speed instrument to Med and back. The Nexus wireless wind speed indicator broke down in a hailstorm on the first week from leaving home. Shows windspeed when the transducter is on deck, but not when it's on top of the mast. We've had that Nexus wireless unit for 3...

We found that extremely strange during our time in France and in the canals, as we came across a leaflet that advertised the rental boats. For my own boat I need a handful of papers proving all sorts of things, not just that in theory I know how to skipper a boat. But this rental boat...

We saw few dolphins last October on the coast of Barcelona. I think there were about five of them, swimming near the channel leading to the Barcelona commercial harbour. But those were the only ones we noticed. But South Biscay was a different matter, the sea seems to be full of them and large...

Thank you for the number. I got also a clinic number from Rotterdam that is open seven days a week and takes all patients. Scheduled an appointment there. In case anyone needs help for a nasty toothache in future, here's the details: Tandheelkundig Centrum Kralingen Slaak 24 3061 CS Rotterdam...

Hello Has anyone got an experience with dentist in Netherlands for emergency treatment. I've been trying to find a dentist, but I've get told from the dentist, that they only have appointment for their own customers, no outside customers are taken? I find that strange. There must be a way to...

We enjoyed Cadaques, could have stayed there forever. Medes Islands are also nice, stayed at the mooring buoys for a while, but it was quite windy and thus couldn't land at the island.

Our mast (11 meters) would have been about 600 euros from Dunkerque to Port Saint-Louis in last July.

Here's our design, a bit different but was quick to do and did its job all the way.