Sailing Positive Waves

The past few weeks have been a departure from our regularly scheduled programming and to say that I am itchy to get back sailing is an understatement. When we picked up Positive Waves in France last summer, our original plans were to spend the first year sailing (and skiing) in Norway in the winter and then a summer in Sweden before we headed south to the Canaries. The pandemic, of course, had different plans for us. We were fortunate to stay in Sweden for most of the past year. The pandemic, however, showed it's double-edged sword: we were in Sweden but we couldn't see family or friends. Once we returned in May, fully vaccinated and with a lot of family either fully vaxxed or have had at least one jab, we hopped off the boat and spent three weeks visiting family. on the ferry leaving PW, heading to the airport. The first request was from the kids--they wanted to spend time at the summer cottage with their Farmor and Farfar and NOT their parents. We put them on a fl

  Within two weeks of arriving back to Positive Waves , we were already making plans to leave her again. Last summer the kids begged, and we promised, to spend some time at the family summer house in northern Sweden without parents. Only with Hans's parents, their Farmor and Farfar. Hans and I also wanted to spend a little time there, to see family and enjoy the long northern days, so it was time to move off the boat for a few weeks. Finding a place to leave the boat at the height of the Swedish summer sailing and vacation season was a little more difficult (and potentially expensive) than we had anticipated. Almost every Swede takes long vacations during the month of July, and the majority of boat owners spend those summer days afloat. Marina prices skyrocket and berths fill quickly. To make it even trickier, we wanted to leave the boat within easy public transit distance of Gothenburg. After looking at marina rates and calling around to learn that most marinas were already full