Fish and other sea-animals need to eat as well

Gothenburg presented itself Friday morning slightly overcast, quite cold with 8 degrees and a slow breeze. After some decent breakfast close to Hotel Villan in which Markus and a few colleagues stayed they checked out and visited Gothenburg's oldtown while the crew, Rainer, Paul, Matthias and Felicia cleaned up the boat from the previous sailors and in the early afternoon they moved into the Astro de l'Est, a Swan 82 race yacht.

Full action sailing guaranteed on the Astro de l'Est

The weather forecast was not perfect for sailing as it was supposed to be only slow windspeed. When setting off there were quite a lot of dark clouds above the boat so that the whole team put on the hard weather gear, protecting perfectly from wind and water, as well as the life-vests. To the joy of all on board the wind sped up and also the clouds disappeared so that the sun could be enjoyed while cruising at up to 13 knots. A few hours into the sailing Nicole, one of Markus' colleagues had to give in to sea-sickness and spent the rest of the trip close to the water and feeding fish with her stomach content.

No sunset yet at 2100

The great thing about sailing so far in the North at this time of the year is that the sun is shining very long and thus we arrived in our destination, the little town Marstrand, at 2100 with the sun still well above the horizon. After a hot shower the team, in the meantime joined by Staffan, one of Markus's and Fritz's Swedish clients, headed towards Grand Hotell for a long dinner followed by drinks with many Swedes and Norwegians until late night.

Kerstin & Markus