{"id":21182,"date":"2025-09-14T21:39:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T20:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=21182"},"modified":"2025-09-28T21:55:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T20:55:32","slug":"daily_3848_-_sailing_to_gistholmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2025\/09\/14\/daily_3848_-_sailing_to_gistholmen\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3848 &#8211; sailing to Gistholmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two-day company conference with Active Solution en route to and on Gistholmen. The company is really spoiling us.<\/p>\n<p>We spent half of today sailing to Gistholmen.<\/p>\n<p>Met up at the harbour at Strandv\u00e4gen and got on the four boats that would be ours for the day.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3848_sailing_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>None of the people on our boat were particularly familiar with sailing, but luckily the boats came with skippers who actually knew what they were doing. We got put to work pretty soon, though, pulling on ropes and sometimes not pulling on ropes and manning the wheel.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3848_sailing_3.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sailing boats are high-tech equipment these days, with all sorts of sensors and meters. Speed, depth, the angle at which the wind hits the sails&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3848_sailing_5.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We left the city behind.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3848_sailing_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3848_sailing_4.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When we got into roomier waters, we raced the other three boats. Really the skipper did all the racing and we just did our best to follow his instructions as quickly as we could, without misunderstanding him. Which we didn&#8217;t always succeed at.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3848_sailing_6.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t very windy at all, but when we caught as much wind as we could, the boat leaned quite impressively. For a non-sailor like me, at least.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3848_sailing_7.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what looks weirder: the below-deck room at the angle that it actually was, or seeing everything hanging crooked because I&#8217;ve straightened out the room.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3848_sailing_8.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3848_sailing_9.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We passed some narrower bits around Vaxholm, had lunch on board, then raced the others again.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3848_sailing_10.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3848_sailing_11.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Arrived at Gistholmen and did a bit of actual conferencing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3848_sailing_13.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The island is a small one. A cabin village with 21 small cabins, one larger central building with a reception, a kitchen and a great hall, and that&#8217;s about it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3848_sailing_12.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was all peopled out after the day and took a walk around the island in the early evening. Circled about 80% of the perimeter of the island.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3848_sailing_14.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-day company conference with Active Solution en route to and on Gistholmen. The company is really spoiling us. We spent half of today sailing to Gistholmen. Met up at the harbour at Strandv\u00e4gen and got on the four boats that would be ours for the day. None of the people on our boat were particularly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,773,768,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-outdoors","category-photography-2","category-career"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21182"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21195,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21182\/revisions\/21195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}