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Female solo sailors – fascinating at Allt för sjön

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Writer: Helena Bergström

Laura Dekker was only 14 years old when she sailed around the world alone. Elizabeth Tyler was much older when she challenged herself and, after the sudden death of her husband, decided to single-handedly continue sailing the sailboat that her husband had mainly managed. Peter and I listened to two fascinating stories of female solo sailors yesterday during the All for the Sea event at the Stockholm Fair.

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Guest of the week: Mads Poulsen and Lotta Logård, Round-the-world sailors.

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Interview and questions: Helena Bergström

In May this year, Mads Poulsen and Lotta Logård left Stockholm in their sailboat S/Y Looma IV to embark on their longest ever sailing trip. In fact, we attended their farewell party held here in Pampas marina, where we live. Mads has lived in a houseboat here before and the last time before departure they had their nice sailboat lying right here. One early morning (so early that we didn't have time to wake up and wave) they glided past our houseboat and out towards the open waters.

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ÅF Offshore Race and meeting with friends at Skeppsholmen.

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Writer: Helena Bergström

Last Friday we met up with our good friends Peter and Eva at Skeppsholmen in Stockholm, where there were plenty of activities for the ÅF Offshore Race. A nice evening with friends, sailing boats and interesting pizzas ...

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Guest of the week: Ann-Sofie and Jonas on S/Y Lady Annila, long-distance sailors.

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Interview and questions: Helena Bergström

Ann-Sofie and Jonas have both been sailing most of their lives and six years ago they left Sweden for the longest sailing trip ever. During this time they have mainly sailed in the Mediterranean, but they have also travelled all the way to the Caribbean on their boat S/Y Lady Annila. Now a new era in the couple's life is about to begin, with permanent residence in Portugal.

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Guest of the Week: Linda Hammarberg, round-the-world sailor

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Interview and questions: Helena Bergström

In 2010, Linda and Ludvig Hammarberg embarked on a four-year voyage around the world with their children Lovis and Otto, then aged 4 and 2. With the 40-foot-long sailing boat S/Y Mary, they sailed across the world's oceans and visited lots of exotic places in Africa, Southeast Asia, Polynesia and the Caribbean.

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Catamaran sailing trip in Malaysia

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Writer: Helena Bergström

Today we have done a full day sailing trip by catamaran in Malaysia, here on Langkawi. It was a really nice excursion, and if anyone is going here, we can highly recommend a trip with Rampant sailing. The couple who organised the trip were very nice and made sure it was a really good day.

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