Author: pni

We’re now east of Porkala (Porkkala). I estimate four hours to home port.

Heading east going 12 knots.

Jakob Ramsjö. Food.

Making the best of our captivity while we were held prisoners by the weather gods in Hangö (Hanko). Time to be tourists again. We saw the city from the water tower before the weather turned all rainy and gray. No-one of us had been the the tower before. An impressive view. In the horizon, vaguely visible to the naked eye, stood Bengtskär lighthouse proudly. Through the binoculars it was more visible.

After we’d been exposed to very hard winds up in the water tower, it was time to check out some shops, buy ice cream and have something to eat. I’m quite shure that the whole crew can recommend Makasiini resturant (I think that was its name, they serve food under the Skärgårssmak-logo) in the old harbour buildings. The food was great, the service good (and quite pleasing to the eye too) even though I found a fly in my brandy (!).

The rain in Spain stays mainly over our heads. Surprised? Not!

The weather in Hangö (Hanko) is sunny. But the sunshine has its price. The wind is blowing quite hard, as the forecast promised. And the clouds seem to have decided where they want to be: in the east. That’s the direction we’ll be heading today. There seems to be no clouds at all in the west,where we came from. On the positive side though must be said that it isn’t raining, which is nice.

A sudden phone call, about half past five, took us some nautical miles north from our course to meet Lefa. So we sat there and chatted for a few hours and now we continue towards Hangö (Hanko).

Heading east. Either straight to Hangö (Hanko) or via a colleague of the captain north east of Kasnäs.