After a noisy windy night we rose at 06.00 to get an early start as Hanö is a very small harbour, that would fill up quickly, we woke to cloud and rain, in spite of the weather we had a good fast crossing to Hanö. We had an interesting walk to the top of the island to the brightest lighthouse in the Baltic, from there we walked down to the British cemetery where the last remains of a number of British sailors from H M S Victory lay who died here in the winter ...

Utklippan on the way home. Just 28 NM today should have been less but we had to tack all the way here as the wind was on the nose. So much busier this time with 25 yachts and one motor yacht in harbour. We decided to row over to the lighthouse island before supper, there was some commotion around a lady who had fallen on the rocks, it turned out she was from the Swedish Yacht "Sunshine"who has been traveling the same route as us and we have shared at least 4 harb...

The forecast was for a fair wind today so we decided to take the opportunity to try and cover a few miles. The wind had more south in it than we would have liked but it gave us just enough to sail, 35' to 40' the apparent wind, this is about as close to the wind that we can sail with reasonable speed but sailing to windward is not our favourite point of sail as the boat heels a lot and you get a cool wind in your face all day. We watched with envy of the yachts g...

To Figeholm guest Harbour, yes we need more food and updated forecast, today no wind and overcast and as it turned out just as well because the channel if that's what it can be called was so narrow and shallow we felt we could touch the rocks and buoys, as we motored down through the islands we wondered why all the other boats were much smaller than us. On arriving in port we found that most of the yachts take the offshore route as they think the narrow passage i...

A change from the previous day's F6 and high speeds, today's wind was light F 3 at best, we only had 12nm to go so we had a very gentle sail down to a lovely sheltered spot just of a tiny village, we were not alone tonight as three other yachts were there. It was a lovely evening bringing out the barbecue and the dinghy for a trip round the islands, there were deer and lots of birds to see before a grand sunset. The next morning Brenda cut my hair on the beach, m...