to read the stories from our cruising life on Sally, a beautiful sailing boat from Hallberg Rassy. We started in May 2019 and you can read about our sailing adventures in the stories on this blog. We write about different topics related to sailing and the places we visit, and once again, welcome to share our adventure!
The latest stories
The grandchildren in Las Palmas
Four days after the ARC start, it is time for our grandchildren and their mother Sofia to visit us in Las Palmas. We have promised to meet them at the airport and take the bus to meet them there. Their flight is on time and we don’t have to wait long to see them come…
ARC 2022 starts
Now it is time for almost 200 expectant Atlantic sailors to begin the long voyage across the Atlantic to the Caribbean. We ourselves have been in the same situation in 2019 and know how many things there are to arrange when it is the first time you cross the Atlantic. The first days in Las…
To Las Palmas
From Morro Jable it is approximately 60 nautical miles to Las Palmas on Gran Canaria. It is a day trip with around 10 hours of sailing in the wind predicted by the weather forecast. In order to arrive before dark, we leave Morro Jable at dawn. On longer trips, we usually pick up the dinghy…
Nostalgia trip to Morro Jable
From Gran Tarajal it is a short sail, just over 20 nautical miles down to Morro Jable on southern Fuerteventura. We have been there once before, at the beginning of 1990. At that time, they had just started building large hotels by the beautiful beach. We’ll see if we recognize the place now. We get…
Visiting Gran Tarajal
In order to make a few stops along the way, we leave Rubicon about 1 week before we were supposed to arrive in Las Palmas. We take the route east of Fuerteventura and the first port is Gran Tarajal, barely 50 nautical miles from Rubicon. We get a nice sail in 10-20 knots of wind…
Sailing Sally 