I have put togehter a calendar with some of my best seaside pictures. It is a collection of 13 great images from the West Coast of Sweden. Pictures include views from Åstol, Rönnäng, Klädesholmen, Kyrkesund, Käringön and Marstrand. Size: A4 - 21 cm x 30 cm
View the 2009 Portfolio Calendar Pages.

10 to 11 November the match racing regatta GKSS Winter Cup was sailed in Långedrag, Göteborg, Sweden. Johnie Berntsson with crew won the race. See all the pics here ....

I strålande höstväder avgjordes årets sista deltävling i Svenska Multisportcupen, Femmans Multisportrace, vid Delsjöns badplats. Jag tog kamera och mountainbike ut i skogen för att göra ett första försök att fota multisport. Det blev ett svettigt flängade hit och dit. Här är bilderna...

This years edition of the Gotland Runt off shore race was a comfy experience with winds between two and 20 knots. I sailed on Essex Girl again as floater. The boat has a great crew that is both experienced and fun to be around. We did a good start and managed to reach clean air pretty fast. At Almagrund we had a feeling that the new sails worked well. Later in the race this was confirmed when we got reports telling us that we were leading our class. At Fårö the wind died. We stuck to a conservative strategy even though most boats started to hunt for wind along the shore line. In the end it turned out that we reach new wind first and could gain some distance. The east side of Gotland was tacking for hours in winds between 6 to 16 knots. The new Genoa 1 heavy served us well and we managed to sail faster than most bigger boats around. On the way to Knolls grund it was night and we were reaching with a 0.75 spinnaker doing 10 to 16 knots. We passed less then fifty meters behind a ferry at full speed. A scary but beautiful experience. The ferry looked like a gigantic Christmas tree shining through our sails. The rest of the race was pretty uneventful. Inspired by Tour de France we created a rotation for the guys trimming the spinnaker. 10 minutes grinding, 10 minutes trimming, 10 minutes rest and then back to grinding, and so on. This was very effective and we mananged to stay focused in the hot sun all the way up to Alma. When we crossed the finish line we knew that we had won our class. That felt very good and gave a sweet taste to all beers that night. Check out the pics.

Last match racing event for the season. The GKSS Winter Cup in Långedrag. Check out the pics.

On a rainy day in august, Pelle Stanikowski asked me if I would like accompany him and his drag racing team North Race on their tour to England. That is an offer I could not refuse. We travelled to Shakespeare County Raceway in Stratford-Upon-Avon. It is an air strip from the second world war that now hosts a great track for drag racing. Great event! Beautiful cars thundering down the strip. Something that has to be experienced live. The sound of these cars gets your adrenaline running. The rocket propelled car scared the shit out of me when I was standing to close taking pictures. Team North Race managed to beat the track record (6,842s) on their first run, which meant I was hanging out with the coolest gang of that weekend :-) See the pics here.

Time for the traditional lobster fishing season in Sweden. Some companies makes this into customer care activities. See the Gallery
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The most competetive crews and the sexiest sailing boats on this planet visited Sweden for the Malmö-Skåne Louis Vuitton Acts 6&7. See the action.

The race Tjörn Runt is a tradition for all sailors on the west coast of Sweden. This year me and my brother borrowed our fathers speed boat to go shooting for pictures. As it turned out only 19 boats managed to finish the race due to no wind. See the pics.

For my seventh Gotland Runt I joined Emil Wiberg and his crew. Great guys with loads of racing experience. It turned out to be a long and sunny race. No wind for the first 13 hours and we had cod in tomato sauce for almost all meals. See the pictures.