MAGNUS, Swedish citizen & skipper. Navigation teacher and commercial yachtmaster. Runs his own business since a bit over 20 years. Currently obsessed with the idea of selling off and go sailing the world. During last winter's efforts, slowly discovered that it's not that easy to 'escape' the rat [...]

race. Determined to make it happen anyway... next year ;-) ISABELLE, french citizen & first mate. Has extensive experience in blue water crusing, and working on boats. Currently deeply involved in 'working' on Magnus to help him 'make it happen'.

During last season we cruised during two and a half months in the Baltic Sea. We started by heading East for a couple of days and spent some time in Lithuania, exploring an inner sea, the Curonian Sea and a two day trip on the Atmata river. Then to Gotland and it's eastern coast that we explored [...]

during a week. Gotland is the largest island in the Baltic. From there we turned eastward again to Estonia. Since our engine gave up here we ended up at the dock during four weeks and made an engine change. We managed to make a trip to Tallinn, the Capital, by car aswell. Sept 3 we sailed north to Finland and then back south along the Swedish coast via Ã…land. during this spring of 2009 we have completed an extensive refit exteriorally of the boat and are about to take off on an open-ended cruise. Pretty loose plans, but next winter we want to be somewhere warm and nice more pictures to be found here: (http://www.flickr.com/photos/9218039@N06/)