Crossings, harbours and the slow work of keeping a thirty-year-old boat ready for open water. Written aboard, mostly at anchor.
The first passages of the season are logged and being written up.
Enja files a trip the moment she arrives — track, distance, how much of it was made under sail. It appears here once someone has had the time to say what the day was actually like.
Maintenance: work done to her at the dock, mostly with the panel open — and what each job turned out to really be about.
27 October 2026 · 6 min read
After a 36-knot night alongside, the first question was whether any of Enja's mooring lines had parted. Nothing aboard measures a line, but the compass measures what the lines do. We checked that night by hand, then taught the wind alarm to ask the same question after every blow.
25 October 2026 · 6 min read
Enja's new wind alarm went off for the first time in a squally south-easter that dropped the barometer 24 hectopascals…
18 July 2026 · 12 min read
An evening aboard Enja spent moving three tank senders off their dead gauges and into the Cerbo — in which an open…
13 July 2026 · 11 min read
Two days aboard Enja, in which a sailing yacht acquires opinions about her own data, and every single bug turns out to…
Bern took the Comfortinas over from Håkan Södergren and drew them lower and faster — the 35, the 38, the 39, and in 1998 the 42, all built by Comfort Båtar in Arvika. His argument, made in lines rather than in words, is that a boat can be gentle on the eye and merciless offshore: a low coachroof, a moderate and easily-driven hull, an underwater profile that will go to windward all day —forgiving in the fjord, faithful in the fetch.
She is hand-laid glass, round-bilged, with three tonnes of lead in a deep fin keel and a spade rudder hung behind it — which is where the stiffness comes from, and the answer in the helm. The rig is fractional and unfussy: 44 m² of mainsail, a 53 m² genoa that rolls away on its furler, and nothing that needs two people awake. Ocean category, and a four-cylinder Yanmar on a saildrive for the last mile into a harbour.
Below, Swedish joinery and teak: a V-berth forward, two cabins aft, and a galley to port at the foot of the companionway, where a cook braces against the sea instead of falling across it. The chart table faces forward, to starboard. Craftsmanship in service of the crossing.
Questions about the boat, the passages, or the C42 class — or you have sailed one yourself and want to correct the record. All of it is welcome.