Ooooh you've taken me back 55 years making the same "voyage" with my Dad and his boating chums, my first foreign trip in a Macwester 28, à total dog of a sailer but what an adventure!
An interesting view, thanks for sharing. We have just swopped our IF boat for a M26. I must say, that you have done a superb job with your set up and layout on your IF boat. She is looking very smart and purposeful, inside and out.
This is really interesting! You do have a very fine IF-boat. Have you reinforced the rigging on her? I've understood that the chainplates are a bit weak in the IF-boat. Before I bought my IF-boat, I looked at one, which the owners had sailed from Sweden to Faroe islands and Scotland. They had put in sturdier chainplates and enlarged the self-draining. Eventually, I'd like to do the same, even though I'll never brave the North sea with her. I only sail in lake Mälaren and the Stockholm archipelago - where there are no waves. But I hope to sail the Baltic once. Thanks for uploading. It's nice watching now, waiting for the season to start. PS. Also, those madmen to Scotland - when they sailed the North Sea, they hooked off their motor and kept in the storage place so that it would not fall off.
Thank you for the nice message! I have put new chainplates on her and renewed the rest of the standing rigging. I sailed her from the U.K. to Denmark last summer and the North Sea was the easy bit - the Baltic was much rougher! I would love to sail up to Stockholm and explore the archipelago one day. I wish you a lovely season ahead of you! James
Ooooh you've taken me back 55 years making the same "voyage" with my Dad and his boating chums, my first foreign trip in a Macwester 28, à total dog of a sailer but what an adventure!
Great video. Nice trip!
An interesting view, thanks for sharing. We have just swopped our IF boat for a M26. I must say, that you have done a superb job with your set up and layout on your IF boat. She is looking very smart and purposeful, inside and out.
Peter Gibbons thank you! Credit goes to Jeremy Rogers Limited for the refit!
This is really interesting!
You do have a very fine IF-boat. Have you reinforced the rigging on her? I've understood that the chainplates are a bit weak in the IF-boat. Before I bought my IF-boat, I looked at one, which the owners had sailed from Sweden to Faroe islands and Scotland. They had put in sturdier chainplates and enlarged the self-draining. Eventually, I'd like to do the same, even though I'll never brave the North sea with her. I only sail in lake Mälaren and the Stockholm archipelago - where there are no waves. But I hope to sail the Baltic once.
Thanks for uploading. It's nice watching now, waiting for the season to start.
PS. Also, those madmen to Scotland - when they sailed the North Sea, they hooked off their motor and kept in the storage place so that it would not fall off.
Thank you for the nice message! I have put new chainplates on her and renewed the rest of the standing rigging. I sailed her from the U.K. to Denmark last summer and the North Sea was the easy bit - the Baltic was much rougher! I would love to sail up to Stockholm and explore the archipelago one day. I wish you a lovely season ahead of you! James
This is great. How long did it take?
Tom Gallon thank you! Took about 15 hours on way out and 13 on way back with more favourable conditions