#01 CRUISING CAT IN THE BALTIC SEA
What a trip! Emerald, clear waters, endless, snow-white beaches and a littering of sandbars. Steady easterly 18 - 22 knot winds and sun all day. Cruising together on a spacious catamaran with pro riders Colleen Carrol, Craig Cunningham and Anne Valvatne, we also took a lot of toys, including a Lampuga Electric-Jet surfboard.
The itinerary and images sound more like a Caribbean or Micronesia type trip that you may have seen lavishly spread in magazines. Well, not this time. We started out in Rostock harbour, Denmark where there are certainly no palm trees, but we were bid a striking farewell with a blood red sunset and a steady easterly breeze.
A trip around these waters usually lasts for a week, but we were…