After stocking up in Tamisaari and a nice evening wander round (dodging the showers), we headed off this morning for Rosala. We decided to bypass Hanko and go somewhere new and given the nice sunny morning we headed through the northernmost (and rockiest) channel across to Hanko. Essentially there is …
Rather than head straight to Hanko, we decided to take a short(ish) diversion today up to Tamisaari (or Ekenäs as it is known in Swedish). The Swedish name is clearly important as the town is bilingual with 81% of inhabitants speaking Swedish and 17% Finnish. Quite what the other 2% …
After an early start (7am) this morning, we headed out from Suomenlinna to go west. So, sods law, the wind was also a westerly … so we motored. The route we took would have been impractical for short-tacking with narrow channels and lots of rocks either side, so we ended …
In a move reminiscent of Groundhog Day, we reversed our path from two weeks ago and headed back from HSK Lautassari to Suomenlinna again. Ric and Fiona joined us last night, so, we headed to Suomenlinna. Anne and I will spend the day looking around the island, while Ric and …
A very short trip today. We are heading home for ten days or so and have arranged to leave the boat at HSK marina at Lautasaari so we left Suomenlinna first thing this morning for the short trip across – all of 3.2 miles. We motored all the way and, …
With a breezy, but generally OK forecast we decided to head across to Helsinki today. Unfortunately Porkkala was not quite as sheltered as we had hoped as the wind funnelled straight up the inlet. That combined with the fact that we had to moor on the south side of the …
We woke up to bright sunshine and a fairly light breeze, but with more wind forecast, we decided to get on and keep heading towards Helsinki first thing this morning. We motored out of Barösund and hoisted the jib within a couple of minutes and it came down about 10 …
After a lively midsummer evening (for others!) and being woken at various times by revellers, we set off around 8am to try and head through the archipelago to the east of Hanko. Initially we decided to head outside one of the more major main channels as this enabled us to …
With a less than ideal forecast for the next few days, we decided that the best approach was to try and get some mileage done towards Helsinki today. So, we headed for Hanko. We started fairly early as with nearly 60 miles to do, we thought we would get on. The …
After two days holed up in Verkan on Korpo we were ready to head off. The weather wasn’t quite so sure it was ready to head off and, while it was lovely and sunny, it was still blowing quite hard today. However, it had eased quite a bit from the …
