Extract from the logbook, 30 June 2008

Monday 30/06-08, 13.00 Howth harbour.

We will stay in Howth harbour today. Weather forecast is south-easterly…

Sunday 29-06-08

11.51, log 0, wind west 9 metres/sec. Departure from Dublin with song, music and speeches. We cast off and row off…

Skipper Carsten Hvid waves goodbye to Dublin. Photo: Werner Karrasch

Farewell Dublin

The Liffey will never be the same again. Dublin’s long water motorway is double the size of Gudenåen and was about…

The Sea Stallion is on its way at last

We are safe in the big fishing harbour at Howth, north-east of Dublin. We are on our way at last.

At 11.45 am we…

The Sea Stallion is under sail

The Sea Stallion has left Dublin, and heading for Howth.

Nordic place-names in Ireland and Wales

Great Britain and Ireland are full of Nordic place-names; most notably the landmarks of the coastal areas.…

Sorting out tuna tins, rudder tackle, and wetsuits

Wednesday 25/6 started early. At 6:30 am, the Sea Stallion was to be towed from its hiding place over the last 30…

A friendship of the more spectacular kind was agreed yesterday evening, when the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Paddy Bourke (left), and the Mayor of Roskilde, Poul Lindor Nielsen (right), formally said goodbye to the Sea Stallion in a beautiful ceremony at Dublin

When Roskilde and Dublin got engaged at the City Hall

A ceromony led by the Lord Mayor with folk music and military band tied a new bond between Roskilde and Dublin