Slowly making progress... (Patreon)

Hello! Sorry I've been quiet for a while but I thought I'd update you on what's happening on board Sylvia. If you read my earlier updates you might know that our original plans for the summer 2020   (sailing through the Stalin canal in Russia)  were scrapped because of COVID19. And that we've been looking for a steel/aluminum boat for our next goal: to overwinter in the ice in Greenland in 1-2 years. To get a new boat I also have to sell Sylvia, and because of tax issues I can only do that in EU (which Norway is not part of), so I'm currently sailing back to Finland.

I had couple of boats that I was seriously interested in but unfortunately the deals fell through. Last week I flew to northern Sweden to look at a boat. The whole process took 3 days but unfortunately nothing came out of it, and now I have to do 10 days of quarantine because I flew through Stockholm, which is considered a "red" zone. So we're still without a steel/aluminum boat, but I do have couple more candidates in mind. Currently COVID is making it a bit difficult to travel to look at boats, but hopefully I have some more news in a week or two about that!

Anyway, the last few weeks have mostly been just quick and somewhat boring coastal sailing. I've had lots of translation and other kinds of work to do and when you're trying to sail at the same time it's not necessarily all super enjoyable. When you're trying to make the maximum amount of distance per day and often arrive in the dark, then you don't really have time to look for the best anchorages, so I've been staying in quite "boring" harbors and haven't had time to do much exploring. Yes, first world problems I know!

I'm now in Kristiansand, almost at the southern tip of Norway, and will probably cross over to Denmark on Monday.  You can follow my progress on this Patron-only map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1lmdEhYcHj51MrimMEZXhMTW5TVTNdOTp&usp=sharing

The photos are not very recent, they're from western Norway, each of them from a different island: Grip, Ona and Halten. :)