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Annika Koch |
| We, Annika Koch and Björn Christensson, where not brought up in families used
to the sea. Both of us started sailing dinghies many years ago. None of us sailed in organized sailing events nor did we race, and most of our earlier experiences were in the waters of the Swedish East Coast, south of Stockholm, the archipelagos of ST Anna and Gryt. Our interest in sailing increased year by year and developed into teaching people in this fine art in various sea training courses. We participated as teachers in a training course for adults in August 1973 where we met each other for the first time. And we are still on that road… Since 1974 we have lived on the west coast of Sweden, close to Gothenburg where we, 1976 bought an empty hull of a half-ton sailing yacht. Two years later, after a lot of engineering and carpentry, we sailed our first owned sailing yacht. A 31 feet long, 3,5 ton and the draught was 1,8 m For various reasons, we sold the yacht after a few years, and we let our employers rule our lives for too many years. We worked too much and had very short vacations. Until 1998, the year we bought our Forgus 37, we sailed borrowed or chartered yachts. The longest trip during this time was a seven weeks trip from Turkey to Mallorca. We had some problems deciding which sailing yacht, or more precise, how
much money we could come up with. Because the type of a yacht we wanted was very
soon obvious to us both. A blue water yacht with a centre cockpit. There weren’t
that many yachts on the second hand market that fulfilled our “demands” during
the autumn -97 and spring -98. The best option was an almost unused, three
year old Forgus 37, named “Lindisfarne”, laying south of Stockholm in the
Baltic Sea. The following years of sailing and upgrading Lindisfarne you can find by following the menus for the web site. Why the name “Lindisfarne”? The simple explanation; the previous owner had named her Lindisfarne. |
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