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Blue Clipper, Food, Photography, Sailing, Scandinavia, Travel Gerald FitzGerald Blue Clipper, Food, Photography, Sailing, Scandinavia, Travel Gerald FitzGerald

Sunday August 11, Arendal Norway

An interesting couple of days’ journeys since my last post. On Thursday we left our anchorage right after breakfast, raised sails and headed for Gothenburg, an old university town and the second largest city in Sweden. Winds were not helpful, Force 2, so not really moving the boat with any speed, so on with the engine expecting our motor-sail to cover the 70-odd nautical miles by late evening. As the day drew in with our boat speed hovering between 4 and 5 knots it was clear that it would be very late evening or early morning before we arrived, so picked a very nice anchorage about 3 hour’s sail from Gothenburg and tied up for the night….

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