Sailing conditions – Floating Finns

4263 nautical miles (= 7895 km) and 18 different ports later…

Mrs Finn — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 08:41:41 +0000

It is with a lot of relief that we can reveal that we finally found a semi-decent weather window to sail from Taiwan to Hong Kong, and safely arrived back in Hong Kong on Monday. The weather was rather vicious at the start of our last leg, with waves over 3 metres, and although it …

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Kenting area

Mrs Finn — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 13:41:14 +0000

We have been in Kenting in southern Taiwan for 1,5 weeks now. It was an overnight sail to get here from Hualien – one of rather few coastal legs that we have done this year. It was the time of the month when there was no moon at all, but we had the collective bright …

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Goodbye Japan, hello Taiwan

Mrs Finn — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 03:23:48 +0000

We have been making a lot of progress in the past couple of weeks, meaning also that we’ve been out sailing a lot. We are, in fact, no longer in Japan at all. After Okinawa, we sailed for two days to get to Ishigaki. We only stayed in Ishigaki for two nights (enough time to …

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Return visit to Okinawa

Mrs Finn — Sat, 11 Nov 2017 12:23:01 +0000

We have been back in Okinawa since Wednesday. It was with mixed feelings that we left Nagasaki. We were sad to be leaving the city that we had come to really appreciate, and the nice people in the harbour, but at the same time we were excited to be starting our return journey too. Even …

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Nagasaki – and the start of our return journey

Mrs Finn — Sat, 04 Nov 2017 00:43:07 +0000

Apologies for the long blog silence. We meant to write about our most recent destination – Nagasaki – ages ago, but then decided against it as we knew we would be away from the boat in October and didn’t feel comfortable shouting out to the whole world that we are leaving our boat (i.e. our …

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From Kasasa to Nomozaki

Mrs Finn — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 08:57:44 +0000

From the Kasasa Ebisu hotel we sailed to Akune and spent the night there. From Akune, we sailed to Nomozaki and again spent the night there. We have been told that night-time sailing along the Kyushu coast is a bad idea due to the amount of fishing and commercial vessels in the area. However, the amount …

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Waterspout scare on our way to Kyushu

Mrs Finn — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 09:21:38 +0000

As detailed in our last post, we had to leave Yakushima on Monday morning due to the spring tide during which our boat would have hit the bottom of the port basin. The wind forecasts promised a nice 15-knot wind from the southwest, which was great, and the Japanese marine forecast called for fair weather …

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Back on the boat

Mrs Finn — Sun, 30 Jul 2017 06:26:37 +0000

We are back on the boat after a fantastic although rather tiring 5-week ”holiday from the holiday” in Europe that saw us visit 16 countries and drive over 10,000 kilometres. We had fun celebrating a family birthday in Spain, and enjoyed stops in many beautiful places along the way. We also visited several historical places, …

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Fun and weather

Mrs Finn — Sat, 24 Jun 2017 08:10:14 +0000

Sorry for the long blog silence. We had a great time in Okinawa, so great in fact that we did not have time to write. We met many lovely new people, saw new marine wildlife, witnessed a sports fishing competition, visited one of the world’s largest aquariums, took a magical evening walk in a park …

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Ballistic missiles and other obstacles to sailing

Mrs Finn — Mon, 22 May 2017 14:16:43 +0000

We have been ready to leave Ishigaki since Thursday last week, but here we are still. First our “closed port” permit for the Okinawa prefecture was delayed by one day (although, to be fair to the Ministry of Transport bureau, we still got it faster than the official 7 days). We could not leave without …

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