From our overnight anchorage at Sälsö, we headed north today up to the island of Kumlinge. There were various possible ways to go, but given a wind direction just east of north, we decided to go right round the top of all the islands and then head south a couple …
After a decisive start to the day, we left Korpoström at 7.30am with a firm plan to head for Remarhamn on Kumlinge. Within half an hour we had become indecisive. The wind, forecast to be north-east, was between north and north-west. This would have meant motoring quite a bit of …
After an early morning cup of tea on the rocks, we headed off on a short trip today. We decided to head north ready to then head back into the Åland Islands and Korpoström seemed like a good stopping point, so we headed back there. Before we started though (you …
From Rosala, we decided to head due west. We managed to sail for around two and a half hours, but the wind just then died and headed us, so for the next couple of hours we had to motor. The wind then returned, but bang on the nose and through …
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 …
