I have returned from my short trip with my family on our sailing yacht. We left Västerås Friday evening and sailed the Lake of Mälaren until we came out in the Baltic Sea through the Hammarby Lock in Stockholm. We then spent one night at the island of Vaxholm and watched Italy beat France in the World Cup finals. I had hoped for France to win, but I don’t care too much about football anyway. Our side of the restaurant was crowded with Italian fans, so there was much cheering and happiness. The evening was very good, and we went to bed quite late.

The next days were filled with sailing. We departed early from Vaxholm and went further north. A good southern breeze took us quickly up to the island of Lidö where we stayed for the night. Lidö is located just outside Norrtälje and the natural harbour was filled with boats. The water was freezing cold since the winds had stirred up cold water from the deep of the Åland Sea, so I skipped the evening bath. I guessed that the temperature was around 13-14 degrees Celsius.

At tuesday, during the last day of this vacation we headed even further to the north. The southern winds made a passage outside of Väddö without large waves possible, so we took our chance. This was also the time we tested our new Spinnaker sail for the first time. Our boat is called “Tiger” because of the black-and-yellow colored sail that we hoist when sailing downwind.
We have never used this sail before, and the spinnaker equipment was also new. The wind was quite light, and everything worked very well.

After sailing 40 nautical miles during one day we met up with our neighbors outside of Öregrund, who also are sailors and own a Comfort 30. We lunched together before I left the boat to travel home.

I came home to the empty house at nine o’clock at Tuseday evening and started to work again early wednesday. Now I am back in my old tracks, programming VBA for ABB Motors&Drives.