What's happening?! (Patreon)

Hello dear patrons! I thought we'd give you a quick heads-up on what we've been doing the last weeks. As you might know, we had to leave the "new" s/y Sylvia in southeast Sweden in December because of some engine trouble that stopped us dead in our tracks. We wanted to continue sailing and also we wanted to sail in the Baltic Sea as much as possible during the winter... but Christmas was coming and we couldn't complete the engine work before that. We also knew that the harbors in the Gulf of Finland (in Baltic Sea) would probably freeze before we made it there, so we would've been stuck in the archipelago with a possibly not so reliable boat. (Currently the coast of the Gulf is indeed frozen shut).

Anyway, the work on the engine was of the type that we couldn't complete it ourselves.. the prop shaft had to be laser measured to make sure it was straight etc. So I took the shaft out and left the rest for the mechanics at the yard. I think they've found the root problem now and all should hopefully be finished soon...

Meanwhile me and Sohvi got a crazy expensive one-way car rental (Sweden -> Finland) and drove to Finland to lick our wounds so to say... Here we've been working hard doing our "boring jobs" (my translation work and Sohvi's PhD research) to gather money for boat fixing and the next bit of sailing. On our free time we've been downhill skiing or cross-country skiing on the hills and fjells here (in the photos).

We still fully intend to sail to Iceland and then onwards to Greenland to spend a winter with the boat frozen into the ice there. That is our dream and what we're currently working hard towards! The real time events might not be so exciting for you at the moment since now we can't really be sailing this winter, so the continued support from you is even more appreciated than usually.

PS. The videos are lagging behind now but once we get sailing again we'll be posting those in real time

- Juho