Today, Friday, we put up the anchor on the newly fastened bowsprit. The 150 kg heavy anchor is lowered and raised by hand force, using our large Harken winches to do the job. 

After finishing for the day, I and a few other people from Team Elida have went to Bankeryd just north of the city of Jönköping to stay at Annette’s house for the weekend. She has been working on Elida for two weeks before she continues her medical education on Monday.

We came to her house around eight in the evening, ate a great taco pie, played music, had fun, and watched Jonny English. Our local Canadian, Jarod, has been introduced to the team and he seems to have a really good time with us. The American/Canadian “rivality” has been made apparent at some times of joking and laughing, but everybody thinks is mostly fun.