Journeyman 60

Building and sailing the Journeyman 60

2006 – 2014

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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!

  • 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?…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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 ;-) ):

  • 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) :-)

  • 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…

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