A Gratitude day

Breakfast at 7.30 and some cleaning of the interior of the ship started the day.
Then it was time to sail, which meant everyone needed to help with the hoisting of the sails. Everything is done manually on the ship (except the boat engine). Later in the day we learned the technique a bit more, so you could help even if you didn't have too much of strength.







In the afternoon we passed between larger islands and the sea was calm. A good time to climb up in the mast, when the ship was not leaning back and forth to the sides. Together with one of the crew members Maria went up and it was a nice idea to bring the camera, since the view from up there was amazing. Although it's not good to be afraid of heights, or you have to face it (I'm proud of you sis!). A bit scary Maria has to agree, but it was totally worth it.
Up in the mast the view of the boat were completely different from the one you get on the deck.


Maria also got some nice views of the landscape.

Maria didn't climb up more times during the weekend, but others did. Someone needed to go up there to hoist (or lower) the top sail, independent of the amounts of waves for the moment. It was good that we had some brave ones among us.

During the evening we sisters took an hour-long walk around the island. Several trees were in bloom, like chestnut ("kastanj") and fruit trees. The flat rocks just invited you to enjoy them, nicely colored with flowers like meadow saxifrage ("mandelblomma") and some chive-relative.

We arrived to an island harbor, where quite many sail boats were as well this early in the season. We didn't want to think about how crowded it would be in the summer time.








Unfortunately, when you are sailing the boat yourself it's hard to get a picture of the ship with all sails in use - you are too close. So the only picture of the entire ship is in the harbor with no sails up, but the ship is amazing then as well.







Relaxing on the deck of the ship during the evening you realize that being close to the nature is amazing. Among (new) friends you can't do otherwise than enjoying your life. Looking at the sunset wasn't wrong at all, the planned shower could wait.