In the calm period after New Year and Christmas, with the tinsel and Christmas fairy packed away in the loft again for another year, my mind turns to sailing expeditions for 2022. Tin Tin is in great condition after lots of maintenance in the Autumn and her heating is working well, so I am thinking of sailing to the Baltic this Spring and early Summer.
Plan A is to sail north to the Shetlands, then across to Bergen and down to Stavanger and the fjords. Then onward into the Baltic via Denmark, and see how much we can explore in Sweden. I had thought of pushing on towards St Petersburg, but I suspect that is a bit too far for one year. So I think I will split the Baltic into two cruises in 2022 and 2023. I will explore overwintering Tin Tin somewhere safe and then returning to the UK in 2023, via the Kiel Canal before heading south for the Mediterranean.
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| Plan A - 4,100 miles to Russia and back! |
Otherwise Plan B is to ignore the Baltic and sail down to the Med via the Azores and Canaries.
I can't sail all this alone, and would welcome your company. I am encouraged to have stalwart circumnavigator, Justin, potentially available for most of May, June and a bit of July.
So if you would like to sail with us please let me know when you might be able to join Tin Tin for a week or two, or a month... or more! In principle we will sail between mid-April and mid-July this year.
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