Hellllooo, Norway! Or as they say here, Hejjjjj! Despite noticing that our mast looked like it was leaning to the aft somewhat, the rigging, engine, bow thrusters, and sails worked in tip-top shape. When a sailboat goes into storage, the mast and rigging are removed, the sails are folded and shelved, the batteries unplugged — everything goes into winter hibernation. Then, the mast, rigging, sails, lines — all have to be mounted again for the vessel to launch. Christopher, nic

Dear Friends, Welcome back aboard Star Mist after a llllllong winter! Our voyage last year took a lot of unexpected tacks and jibes. We got stuck “on the hard” (on land) waiting for engine repairs — so we barely crossed into Norwegian waters last September when heavy clouds covered the sky and shivery jabs of winter blew in the cold wind. So this year, we threw off our bowlines in late June in Strömstad Marina in Sweden (where Star Mist sat cozy inside over the winter) and sa

While we enjoyed the morning chants of laughing seagulls on the fringes of Ancora Marina in Neustadt, it was an honor to be invited to...

We have learned how hard it is to leave Denmark! We sailed south to Rødvig, about 35 miles south of Copenhagen, on the same island of...

Thanks to Lucy Bromwich and Adrian Healy for this fab photo! “Go north!” all the Swedish sailors said. “Go north!” While we knew we would...

When the roaring surf calmed overnight to a purr, we emerged from our Vrångö cocoon pointed north to Marstrand, the “sailing Mecca” of...

Strong westerly breezes puffed our sails full of air, blowing us easily over the North Atlantic’s Kattegat from Denmark to Varberg,...

A 20K hike from the marina to the lighthouse A remote desert island shaped like a bird midway between Sweden and Denmark, Anholt is a...

“Killing time” on Terschelling was a visit to paradise. But these fragile islands are not only beautiful. During World War II, they were...

Texel looked like a ghost town by the time we returned from a few landlubbing days in Haarlem and Hilden. On this quaint island with as...