We cannot control the wind, but we can direct the sail.

I came home a few hours ago from a sailing trip. Matilda, Vera and I had passed the theoretical exam of a sailing course earlier this year and this weekend we had part one of the practical test.

So yesterday morning we packed, bought food to then head off towards "Djupskär" by sailing. We got the sails up quite quickly and about an hour or so passed. But then the winds stopped so we had to take the sails down and continue with the motor.

 

After a while we decided to stop at "Lars björkars skär", stay there for a couple of hours and then go back to the harbour.

So we made dinner and relaxed for a while until the real challenge would start.

A part of the course was to be able to sail in the dark so when the sun went down we started our journey back to the harbour.

I must say it was a bit scary to sail in the pitch dark since you really needed to know where to go. Unless you want to crash into some rocks of course. But 3 hours later we were finally back at the harbour. We then spent rest of the night in the boat and in the morning we packed our things and went home again.