Journeyman 60

Author: Jesper

  • The Famous Bight of Hanö Seas

    The Famous Bight of Hanö Seas

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    We’ve left Karlshamn and are on route towards Gothenburg. So all you Gothenburg people, make sure you plan a visit to the boat during Tuesday or Wednesday! The wind is near gale force, so we have the sea pretty much to our selves. The good news is that the Journeyman is performing very well indeed…

  • Sail-along opportunity! Join the south+west coast promo tour!

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    We have decided to go for a short promotion tour around the south and west coast of Sweden. This tour will start in Karlshamn where we are part of Östersjöfestivalen from Thursday July 21 until Saturday. Then we sail towards Gothenburg on Sunday July 24, spend a couple of day there and then head north…

  • Nice leg to Visby

    Nice leg to Visby

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    Yesterday we went from Sandvik on Öland to Visby: The weather was fair, with quite varying winds from 10 to 25 knots. During the later part of the journey (the red part of the track above) we had what I would call “ocean like” wind/wave conditions for the first time since I started sailing the…

  • Speedy night towards Öland

    Speedy night towards Öland

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    Tonight’s weather is what we should have had during Gotland Runt! Then the race would have been a lot less boring… But anyway, nothing beats a wonderful sailing night!

  • DNF

    DNF

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    First time in my racing history actually. But we don’t want to stay out here for ever. Average speed over the last 5 hrs has been 0.85 knots. We’re in between two low pressures of 1007 and 1009 bar (eh? I thought that was a high ;-) ), and very little improvement expected for the…

  • GR Update

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    Good news and bad news. Let’s start with the bad: We are last in the fleet, and the wind is dying and will continue to do so according to the forecasts. This means we have no chance to catch up, which is kind of boring. If the forecast is correct I think we might even…

  • GR Pre Race Results

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    We had a wonderful start in nice weather. The sailing conditions were the worst possible for Journeyman, with hysteric tacking in narrow waters. Our permanent inner forestay is of course a serious drawback in these conditions. So we finished last as expected. But the comment made by the winning classic, a 20 meter  “95” that…

  • Gotland Runt data feeds

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    You can watch or progress on the Ocean Search data tracker, which displays positions and climate variable measurements. And this image is auto updated every minute (as long as the camera doesn’t hang ;-) ):

  • We’re in with the in crowd…

    We’re in with the in crowd…

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    Having a cosy time between 50 footer NOR 12811 “Camilla”, (Cookson 50, TCC 1.39) and Niklas Zennströms’s 72 footer GBR 7236 “Rán 2” (TCC 1.57) :-)

  • Anonymous no more

    Anonymous no more

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    I was afraid we would have to paint the name of the boat manually on the topsides. No adhesive foil that I know of seemed to be able to stick to the sandblasted surface. But thanks to Torbjörn at Color Systems, who basically knows everything there is to know in the world of decal and…