It has been too long since my last post. It seems that all of the end-of-semester activities and pre-sailing preparations took enough of my focus that I neglected to keep you all updated...sorry. As it stands, I am on a Hallberg-Rassy 40 in a harbor in Ellos, Sweden. A few days ago we left here on a 12-hour sail/power drive up to Fredrikstad, Norway, which was a beautiful passage. We are back at the Hallberg-Rassy headquarters to finish up some repairs and quick additions that needed to be made before the journey south.
The captain of the boat, Jack Hoopes, the father of a friend of mine from Tufts, keeps his own blog: http://www.windleblo.blogspot.com/. I suggest you track that for good highlights and analysis of our trip--he doesn't let me use the computer much, so this entry is mostly to point you in the direction of his blog, which he updates often.
I do, however, have my trusty BlackBerry, so if you want to contact me for some questions or just to say hello, my email is still philip.dear@tufts.edu and I can respond to you almost immediately.
The plan for my last ten days on board are as follows: trek down the coast of Sweden for a couple days, land in Copenhagen and spend a day or two there (although I've spent plenty of time there, these guys haven't, so they want me to show them around). After Copenhagen we will make our way to the island of Bornholm (the "Hawaii of Denmark") and finally we will end up in Gdansk, Poland, where we will spend a day or two before I fly home on the 16th.
The weather is stunning, the air is crisp and I'm having the time of my life, BUT...I can't wait to be home to see all of you!
Philip
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