| | First weekend in "Hiding-Cottage"
Monday, 04 June 2007 13:15:40 EET | | |
| |  We were the first weekend in the cottage we hired from archipelago of Vaasa. The whole place was perfect, no other words to descripe my feelings. Itīs around 10 minutes by boat from the quay our little motorboat is located in mainland. No neighbours near the front-yard so we have perfect privacy. So from now on we will mainly live in the cottage (exept the worse "bad-state-of-the-roads" season in the autumn and again in the spring for we do not have any amphibian vechile to reach it on those days...)
The cottage will come for sale next year and I am quite positive we will buy it if no major changes in our life occurs.
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| | Getting Things Done
Friday, 25 May 2007 10:09:05 EET | | |
| | The subject of this blogging was brutally stolen from Mikas suchlike blogging (who in turn has stol... umm got the idea from some other blogger). My personal problem at the moment is that 24/7 seems to be a little bit too less particulary when 8/5 goes to my employee and around 8/7 I have to sleep AND there is too many thinks (I would like) to do. Last few weeks has been a quite a dance on the edge of the blade what comes to getting things done.
Now lets see, including happened so far;
- The transportation sail of s/y Freija had a happy ending. There is still a few things to do with the yacht however.
- I did mount the engine to the motor-boat yesterday and we launch the boat and drive it to harbour. I still need to;.
- Install the remote control system (gas, gear)
- Mount the wheel
- I have no idea when I am able to launch the wooden row- / sailinboat....
- Need the time for fishing. Baltic herring season is on its best at the moment..
- Need the time to check and repair my bike for cycling from harbour to office and vice versa..
- The shooting competition season opens a quite soon....
- *sigh* And plenty of other things to do. A little bit too much with a little bit too less time....
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| | Home Sweet Home
Monday, 21 May 2007 13:32:51 EET | | |
| | So we survived from our adventure voyage from Turku to Vaasa. We were ran into allmost any kind of weather during our trip; from dead calm to storm, from rain to sunshine. The yacht behaved very well and stable, I fell in love in her during the sail despite I was a little bit keyed up in the beginning how she will act with her new master.
Of course there were a couple of exiting events mainly on tuesday for we crave the speed in tailwind and did not reef the main sail in time. Then when we turned to crosswind we did not manage to reef safely anymore so we had to made emergency lay down for the main. Well, the jib carried us allmost at the speed of 6 knots in heavy wind so we did not miss the main too much. In last sailing day (on friday) we recieved the kind of request for "administrative assistance" from boat-police to observe the sea very sharply for there were a boat capsized in the area we sail at that moment.
But well, the voyage is over and the yacht is in her new home port and I hope we will meet the favourable winds with her in our shared journey.
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| | Two minutes to Midnight...
Wednesday, 09 May 2007 12:52:42 EET | | |
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The subject of this blogging has nothing to do with the time this is created but more that the chorus of that particular song sings in my head every time I think about the upcoming transportation sail. Itīs gettin closer day by day and there is not really much more to go and we are in the sea. I hope I have remember all preparations we need to do before voyage.
I cannot blog myself from the sea but the CEO of Siipi Finland has promiced to update the (new) navigation category with log and short story every evening after I have gave him a short rewiev (or briefing) via mobile phone from the voyage. I really hope he will also do what he has promiced... Some pictures might as well arrive via mobile phone but that is something I cannot guarantee...
The engine for the small motorboat has been provided, by the way. We bought it from Kotka in the same time we were on our fishing trip. Hopefully we had some extra time next week after voyage to mount it so we would get also that one to swim...
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| | Because he knows the time is short.
Friday, 04 May 2007 09:14:28 EET | | |
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Only one week and the transportation sail of s/y Freija will be topical. I really do not know what my feelings are at the moment, last autumn when we bought it I was a bit afraid with the thought I have to sail from Turku to Vaasa. Now when the time is near... I dunnot know. I feel a guite positive despite...
I still not know who will be in the final grew except the very near friend of mine had promiced to rice on boat. Worst case scenario is that Iīll not get any "old sailor" to participate and we have to sail by three (four if phylo is calculated...) of us the whole voyage. Or nearly whole. The post-owner has promiced to sail the first leg with us and teach the shenanigans of the yacht. I hope we will get rid of the archipelago of Turku within the first day for after that there is a quite open sea to sail and learn more. Fortunately my spouce is a very good navigator so there is one worry less to take care, I just need to keep the sails in shape and keep the rudder with the rest of the grew then.
We will travel to Kotka this weekend to fish a bit. It is allready a tradition for us to open the open-water season by competition in Kymi river at the first (or second, depends in where the 1:st of may is situated in the calendar) weekend of May. Well, I have allready open the season for this year but still it will be the "official inauguration weekend" for me.
And I will be on a little business trip on the beginning of next week but Iīll update the latest feelings about the transportation sail (and maybe something about fishing of this upcoming weekend as well) when Iīm back.
KOT
Little update at 04.05.2007 10:08
Talk of the devil, just heard that we WILL sail the yacht by three of us. I would call this as an adventure...
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| | Catherings and Rigging.
Thursday, 26 April 2007 12:22:16 EET | | |
| |  I am the proud owner of two similar cars. Well okay, I bought another one just for spare parts so I returned the plates of the red one into MOT today.
 About the situation of boats. Rigging is allmost done, only the riders for main sail are missing and some mountings needs still to be adjusted. The engine for the fibreclassed one is "in composition" for it will be aggregated from several old engines. The week 20 for the transportation sail for s/y Freija approaching very quickly which is good for I am about to be totally finished at the moment. Need the week in the ocean to get rid of the pressure(s) I have at the moment in my work and in my freetime .
This was shortly it at the moment.
KOT
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| | Sommartiden hej hej sommartiden...
Monday, 16 April 2007 10:05:48 EET | | |
| |  As usual, the late winter gave place to nice spring weather after Eastern. Or actually this is not SPRING weather anymore, it is almost summer in these latitudes.
Was on weekend on the cottage to cleave the billets for the fireplaces. Two days in the handle of the axe (and of course the sauna in every evening) did very good to me, I can still feel how the toxicants, clustered during winter time, absolutely running away from my body.
Need to start to prepare the boats into launching condition this week, grind clean the surface, give a coating of tar and varnish and rig the wooden one and then I need to try to search the proper engine to the fibreclassed one. The sea is almost open so I am in a quite hurry at least with the engine for we need to reach the cottage we hired as soon as possible to start our ascetic, or not ascetic but our cottage life here in Vaasa area.
Then I also need to find out the place from where I can buy a fishing-right to keep fishnets in the area the cottage situated. Or actually need to find out in which "village" the cottage belongs so I can buy the correct common of piscary.
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| | We Are The Champions
Friday, 13 April 2007 07:42:06 EET | | |
| | Oulun Kärpät wins the hockey champion of Finland last evening with clean 3-0 (it was best out of 5 matches and they only need 3). Sometimes the win is not important but the total humiliation of opponent. For me this was not just ice-hockey. This was personal. The other team was from northern-tallinn (helsinki), so no need to say more ībout this issue.
I promiced the details of the boats we bought after I have pick them up.
Other one is a small motorboat from "golden seventies" (without engine at the moment, īthou). Lenght about 4,5 meters. Despite the boat is not very large, it was made during the time they did not skimp from the materials so it is very stout and quite seaworthy.
And other one is "classical" wooden salt-water row- / -sailboat with about the same 4,5 meters lenght but with weight around 300 kg of which the keel is 100 kg. Very graceful and beautiful in my opinion.
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| | Business-trip, Easter-holliday and late winter.
Tuesday, 10 April 2007 12:48:14 EET | | |
| | YEAAH! Again quite rush days since last blogging. Were on short business trip on last week in Sweden and after that was on four days Easter-vacation.
As usual, the late winter arrived into Finland in Easter time. Itīs quite funny, despite there is no stable date of Easter and the time of it might vary around a month in different years, same thing happens every time. This particular year we had allmost summer weather and... Well, suppose you got the point.
We were on cottage (not the one we hired from archipelago but the one in countryside) couple of days on holliday time and there seems to be some woodwork to do, so next weekend there should not be any lack of activities.
We bought two boats yesterday but I will sit on the details until have fetch them to "home" and got the desent pictures etc.
Have to run now, KOT!
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| | Ode to the life itself
Wednesday, 28 March 2007 09:02:10 EET | | |
| | Spring has arrived very early this year into these latitudes. We have had sunny, between +5 and +15, calm weather for quite long now. Yes they said this has been the warmest weather ever conserning the season and I do not doupt at all.
The sun and the light (or actually the sunlight) gives me the new energy and shake off the last remnants of winter torpor I had suffer in the dark times. The dark times are pure poison to me, mostly for I do not get fresh air (and sun) too much for in regular working days it is dark when arrive- and dark when leave from office and there is not too much to do in city in dark winter evenings.
We hired the cottage from archipelago of Vaasa. I blogged about the ascetic life in cottage on November 2006 and now we have took the first step. We just need to buy a new boat for the voyage from our "home-shore" to the islet for the phylo and my spouce but more from that when itīs more topical.
I have one wish (again) to the Blog Developer; Would it be nice if there would be the last blogging date in every area in the right frame. Now nobody really knows if there is something new in f.ex. the fishing blog, but if it would tell " 3 Fishing; 26 March 2007 " every "main page user" would notice that "aHAA, something new about fishing...
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| | Vacations and rush hours
Tuesday, 06 March 2007 15:08:18 EET | | |
| |  Was on vacation last week and visit in Lieto to see how s/y Freija hibernates. The aim is to make the transportation sailing from Turku to Vaasa on week 20 and there is still some things to do with the boat before launching. Nothing large īthou, just a tiny purchasing of safety equipment, change the wc to match with new rules etc. But okay, maybe too early to talk about that so much, there is plenty of time to spend before that.
 Murphys (or some others) law striked me straight into my face on my vacation, this time it made it with the shape of the camper. We spend the first night in the "middle of nowhere" on our way down and when the morning arrived the vechile did not grant to start. Well, we got a little help for I thought there is something with the battery but no. Pendix just did not went on. A tow start and the journey continued to the destination in where the same thing happened again in next day when we were about to start our travel back.
The original purpose was to spent one more night on the road and maybe a little ice fishing somewhere but we had to make it back with one jump. And guess what? RIGHT! We spent one more night in the cottage in where we keep up the camper between the trips, and next morning it started just okay with no problems. Damn you mr. Murphy!
But have a quite hurry time at the moment so thatīs all folks, keep on touch.
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| | Airport living and short jumps.
Wednesday, 07 February 2007 18:15:48 EET | | |
| |  Iīm writing this in an aeroplane at height around 10 000 meters above the surface of earth on my second "jump" out of three ones of my one day trip from Vaasa to Stavanger (or actually to Bryne but to complete the journey in Norway end, Iīll use the cab) . Have I ever said I hate flying? Well, 6 flights within 2 days is not excactly what I would call as "fun" despite these jumps are lasting around an hour each, longest one one and a half and shortest 45 minutes.
Its quite "pitch dark" outside, with only lights of some houses (or villages?) on the ground. I wish they have happy and joyfull evening whoever they are.
Have drank couple of beers in airport of Vaasa and again in airport of Helsinki, and in matter of fact I have one beside this fucking laptop in this fucking narrow table of Embraer 170 (no hard feelings against Embraer, ALL planes have. This particular flying machine just happens to be Embraer...). Dunnot know If I have possibilities to drank one or two in Oslo for there is not so much "free" time between the flights AND the cost of beer is quite outstanding in Norway.
But thats all from the air, KOT!
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| | Where is the cat? The cat is in the moon...
Monday, 05 February 2007 10:25:22 EET | | |
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The (ice) fishing season of the burbot (Lota lota) is about to begin one of these days. Or actually we started it allready on last week by sitting on the thursday and friday evening in the darkness on the icecover of the sea. Well, not more about fishing, there is own area dedicated on that but...
...that was prologue (and explanation why) of sitting in the middle of the night on the ice of the sea. I mean I am not about to freak out (more than usually) but the fishing gives me the perfect excuse.
When sitting in the darkness and watching the stars there is a plenty of time to reflect all kind of (blue) thoughts and clean the mind from all kind of crap that modern performance accentuated life might entail. Not more about my personal ones, but I strongly recomend that for everyone once in a while, raise up from your ass and find some place (from the fresh air!) you can be just on your own in the darkness, sit down and watch the stars.
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| | Another shortie.
Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:32:43 EET | | |
| | This blog has started to be annoyingly slow to open. I think I need to start searching another platform and another supplier of services for, despite many promices, no archieving possibility installed into blogging program.
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| | Short one.
Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:04:26 EET | | |
| | Winter has arrived (well well well... again) with around 20 centimeters of snow and a bit above -10 frost. Or that is the situation in this area. A little bit lighter and what is more important (to me) is that the ice is getting stronger. Hope I will get some news in fishing blog (only in finnish) soon.
Nothing special at the moment so... keep on touch.
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| | Licence to kill and car problems.
Monday, 08 January 2007 09:10:51 EET | | |
| | Happy year 007. This greeting comes a little bit late but I have had some activity here so I have not had time to update...
Santa visited our apartment on 24.12.2006 and I do not know was it he with thoughts that he has gave us too much presents OR was it some impotent imbecile but somebody had broke the rear window of my car between 25 and 26 of December. Seeking the good things, it was not the only car on the same street with this destiny. What really pisses me off is that the insurance do not compensate for it reckon as vandalism and it is not covered by my insurance . And of course the inspection should have complete by end of this month so the cost of all refit would have cost more than the value of the vechile itself. So I bought a new used car last frday.
The transportation wing of Siipi company brought couple of sails to me for new year. I have to do a little modifications during the spring (narrow the main and arrange the riders to Genua). Also couple of winches was recieved with the same transportation.
Otherwice new year was peaceful for I had to be in the office on first of January.
This weather sucs! No real winter at all. Temperature hold in plus degrees (this morning +4) and no snow. I spent a weekend in the cottage so I was in open air quite a lot but otherwice I do not get enough fresh air for there is not so much to do at the moment. No ice, so no ice-fishing etc.
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