After a few days anchoring amongst the islands we have sailed into the city, there is more unsettled weather forecast so we thought it might be a good time to explore the city. We could have come into any number of marinas, we chose one and on entering we saw Our friends yacht Yena who we left with on the first day with, then 2 hours later the Dutch couple who we have also seen a few times and sailed from Visby with also turned up. Small world!! It was dry today ...

We have come into Nynashamn Marina so we can catch up as the islands don't have wifi also we were running low on food and water. As can be seen from the photo we are the only yacht on the visitors pontoon, still off season and it's been feeling like it, the last few days have been cold and overcast but the suns out today. Not much to say about Nynashamn, it's a ferry port for the islands, a very good if expensive Marina including a sauna in the complex with one w...

We arrived at the island of Nattaro in the Stockholm Archipelago after 11 hours and 61NM we had to use the motor to maintain a reasonable speed at times as the wind died from time to time. About three quarters of the way over our depth gauge was reading 459m, we were over Landsorts--Djupet the deepest part of the Baltic Sea, also an explosive dumping ground. We have spent 3 nights at anchor here spending time exploring the island, there are many huts and camp sit...

The plans have changed, we are now not sailing to Estonia, two reasons, there are gales and strong winds forecast for that area and our auto pilot has stopped working. The trip to Estonia is getting on for one hundred miles, the bad weather is going to be about for at least a week, with a weeks delay and the prospect of hand steering we have decided to just move up the Island, try and effect a repair on the pilot then head NE towards Stockholm. Day 2 Today we h...

Visby on the island of Gotland, our first tropical island (sort of) 400 million years ago this island was on the equator and still has the remains of coral reefs under the sea. This journey took135 million years and continues to move slowly 15 cms a year to the North Pole. We are some 60/80 miles off the mainland in an area that is very prone to sea fogs. For us it's decision time, we either go NE towards Estonia or NW towards Stockholm. Sailing is all about tim...