Shakedown cruise on the Baltic Sea
Just in time for a new cruising season to start, the story of our 2021 Baltic shakedown cruise is now online.
This was a 666NM trip that we did on our new-to-us Amigo 40 cruising boat in August-September 2021. Apart from engine trouble in the beginning, this was a very enjoyable little adventure on the coasts of Sweden and Bornholm.
The trip even earned us the first prize in the cruising log contest of our sailing club:
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Cruising sailboat electronics setup with Signal K
I haven’t mentioned this on the blog earlier, but in the end of 2018 we bought a small cruising sailboat. After some looking, we went with a Van de Stadt designed Oceaan 25, a Dutch pocket cruiser from the early 1980s. S/Y Curiosity is an affordable and comfortable boat for cruising with 2-4 people, but also needed major maintenance work....