Charlotte felt better! It was the absolutely best morning gift after an excruciating yesterday of seasickness. The morning sun was shining and Charlotte was sunshining. The perfect day to just relax and take a look around at our amazing surroundings.
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Provisioning done (lots of jugs of water, plenty of dry food, toast, cheese, coffee, weird sweets and obviously some sparkling wine for New Year’s). Water and fuel tanks filled, batteries charged. A general idea of where we were headed and which lines to pull to get the sails up. “Ready, captain?”, asked the charter company... Continue reading Day 1: From Nassau to the Exuma Islands
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Short recap: a few months ago Charlotte and I took a leap of faith and ordered a new Hanse 388 sailboat for us and the children. It really was a leap of faith since Charlotte had never sailed before. Now she has.
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The bulk of this post is about the actual costs of owning a Hanse 388, but to not be too clickbaity, I’ll start off by reporting the final results: what we actually paid for our new Hanse, and what the cost of owning has been so far (16.11.2020).
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It has been an interesting couple of weeks dealing with our financing provider, our insurer as well as the tax authorities of Finland, but as far as I understand, the final payment of the boat has now been made, and at last we may be brave enough to actually call it: our boat!
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Whoa! Our dealer just sent us a dropbox folder with the surveyor’s report as well as 100+ pictures of our new boat!
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Any day now our new Hanse 388 will be delivered to us! (No, not actually really delivered to us physically, but to someone somewhere in Germany, who is acting on our behalf, as we have been told.) The boat won’t be put into water before spring, but once it’s delivered, it’s our responsibility to have... Continue reading Insuring Our Hanse Yacht
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Our smaller adventure inside the bigger adventure is getting closer.
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It will be ready in two weeks! Oh boy oh boy oh boy!
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Charlotte suggested I should write something about the Finnish summer, since maybe a lot of people (well those who have heard of Finland in the first place) think it’s just cold and snowy here all the time. I threw in the other seasons as well, so here goes!
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