Category: Odyssey 2004

The navigation just got more interesting as we don’t have maps for the plotter over the area we entered now. Back to all manual navigation. Good training for us all.

Grey, grey, grey. We are on a 3.4 meter inner route that will take us to Nystad. The closest bigger village at the moment is Lokalahti. Our position is 60 36.38 N 21 24.77 E.

Another gray day. Today we’ll reach the main goal of our odyssey.

Today’s food was chicken breast fillet in tomato sauce with noodles, sallad and wine. It was good (ofcourse since I made it :). Next time we’ll make somewhat hotter food again. It’s good for the colesterol levels, and digestion. Hopefully the next cooking place will have less mosquitos. The chili doesn’t seem to bother them at all.

Pekka is preparing food again. The reason he needs a tissue in front of his mouth is that frying his own chili sauce is bad for your health. Without proper protection you suffer from heavy coughing and uncontrolled sneezing.

The food was good as usual. Not as hot as in Hangö, but nicely warm. Nicke needs more training though. He used this pile of paper for cleaning his running nose during dinner.

Parattula guest harbour, south east of Gustavs (Kustavi), is our place for the night. It took five minutes under seven hours to travel sixty nautical miles today. Now for the traditional one.

A short stop to Iniö. Filled her up and ate a small snack. We’re less than ten nautical miles from today’s goal.

The sea seems to be quite empty of boats. Maybe the slow rain and still wind doesn’t invite people out. But we keep on going. This weather is great for a bit longer leg. We’re just passing an island called Hevonkack south east of Iniö. Heading north at the moment.

It has rained all day and it is still raining. We took the route over Gullkrona fjärd and are heading towards Nagu.

Gullkrona Fjärd. A little rain, never hurt no-one… as Tom once sang.