Homepage of S/Y Pia II, Vindo 40 no 282

Her data
Type Vindo	40
Sail no	282
Manufactured	1975
Loa	30' 8''
Beam	7' 8''
LWL	24' 7''
Draft	4' 8''
Displacement	8830 lb
Ballast	43750 lb
Sail Area	455
Main	205
Engine	Volvo Penta MD 2 B, 25 hp

My wife, kids and I sailed our new boat home from the island of Hono in the archipelago of Goteborg one evening in September in the year of 1988. We managed to reach Utkaften, a natural harbor south of the town of Marstrand at that first night in a terrible weather. After landing there, we concluded that we had got an enormous boat compared to Pia I, which was a H­boat. We built that boat ourselves in 1971, and for all these years we had squeezed ourselves into it and enjoyed it.

Nine years later I can see, that Pia II, exactly as her predecessor the homemade H-boat never will be completed. Every year there is a new project of renovation on hand.

Were did we sail to these eight summers? Our home waters are situated in a triangle with Uddevalla in the east, Vasholmarna in the west and Koster in the north. Almost every year we have found ourselves at the Norwegian Sorlandet too. One summer the weather was so bad, that we sailed by the Gota Kanal to Norrkoping to allow the kids to see their grandma there. The longest trip was to Kiel in Germany one summer, when we didn't have any wind a single day. It was a remarkable experience to go down to Skane along the West coast of Sweden and then explore the Danish islands and the northern coast of Germany.

Every time that we have come back to our beloved Bohuslan after a trip to foreign waters we have asked ourselves: Why didn't we stay here. We have got everything here. We could have stayed for weeks at Hjalton and gone swimming every day in the Paradise Bay and gathered chantarelles too. But the next year we always long for more distant places.