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Friday, June 16, 2023

Bothnian Sea, 57NM S of Gåshällan

After a day of sauna and rest, the anticipated north wind finally arrived. This meant time for us to move on.

We motored the narrow fairway, and then rigged up the Parasailor. The whole day has been relaxed spinnaker sailing south at around 160° wind angle. Forecast has that continuing until morning, but we’ll see.

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This time the steering solution has been the electric autopilot in wind mode. Downwind the reaction speed isn’t quite as essential, and the apparent wind has been too low for the windvane to steer well.

As on previous days, the sea has been empty apart from some distant AIS target. We’ve heard the murmur of engines from distance a few times, but haven’t spotted anything bigger than a seagull.

Now we enter the watch schedule as the night approaches.

From the logbook

Time Position Course Speed Log Weather Remarks
15.06. 9:09 Z 62°34'20"N 21°2'53"E 141° 0kt 1597.8NM wind 2.7kt 203° baro 1022 hPa Started watermaker
15.06. 12:02 Z 62°34'20"N 21°2'53"E 320° 0kt 1597.8NM wind 3.5kt 226° baro 1022 hPa Stopped watermaker, 41ppm
16.06. 6:23 Z 62°34'20"N 21°2'53"E 21° 0kt 1597.8NM wind 3.6kt 3° baro 1019 hPa Started main engine
16.06. 6:28 Z 62°34'15"N 21°3'7"E 148° 4.4kt 1597.8NM wind 5.3kt 61° baro 1019 hPa Motoring
16.06. 6:32 Z 62°34'2"N 21°2'55"E 234° 4.5kt 1598.1NM wind 4.1kt 299° baro 1019 hPa Autopilot activated
16.06. 6:51 Z 62°32'54"N 21°1'8"E 205° 3.5kt 1599.5NM wind 6.6kt 323° baro 1019 hPa Motor stopped, sailing with Parasailor
16.06. 7:00 Z 62°32'33"N 21°0'45"E 204° 3.1kt 1599.9NM wind 7.5kt 345° baro 1019 hPa Hourly position log
16.06. 8:00 Z 62°28'46"N 20°57'34"E 199° 3.8kt 1604NM wind 9kt 311° sea state 1/10 clouds 1/8 visibility 8/10 baro 1019 hPa Hourly position log
16.06. 8:42 Z 62°25'36"N 20°55'14"E 191° 5.2kt 1607.3NM wind 10.5kt 287° baro 1019 hPa Autopilot set to wind mode. Not enough apparent wind for the vane
16.06. 9:00 Z 62°24'25"N 20°54'46"E 186° 3.3kt 1608.6NM wind 6.3kt 273° baro 1019 hPa Hourly position log
16.06. 10:00 Z 62°19'41"N 20°53'48"E 185° 5.5kt 1613.3NM wind 12.3kt 324° sea state 2/10 clouds 0/8 visibility 8/10 baro 1019 hPa Hourly position log
16.06. 11:00 Z 62°14'34"N 20°54'10"E 173° 5kt 1618.5NM wind 11.1kt 325° baro 1019 hPa Hourly position log
16.06. 12:00 Z 62°8'46"N 20°54'15"E 183° 6.1kt 1624.3NM wind 14.5kt 313° sea state 2/10 clouds 1/8 visibility 8/10 baro 1018 hPa Waves slightly picking up
16.06. 13:00 Z 62°2'57"N 20°53'42"E 176° 5.9kt 1630.1NM wind 13.9kt 306° baro 1018 hPa Hourly position log
16.06. 14:00 Z 61°57'12"N 20°54'10"E 182° 5.7kt 1635.9NM wind 13.5kt 318° baro 1018 hPa Hourly position log
16.06. 15:00 Z 61°51'17"N 20°53'36"E 181° 6.5kt 1641.8NM wind 14kt 337° sea state 3/10 clouds 0/8 visibility 8/10 baro 1017 hPa Hourly position log
16.06. 16:00 Z 61°45'37"N 20°53'55"E 181° 5.3kt 1647.6NM wind 12.6kt 323° baro 1017 hPa Hourly position log
16.06. 17:00 Z 61°40'33"N 20°54'12"E 184° 4.8kt 1652.6NM wind 13.4kt 314° baro 1016 hPa Hourly position log
16.06. 18:00 Z 61°36'7"N 20°54'47"E 177° 4.2kt 1657.1NM wind 11.1kt 315° baro 1016 hPa Bernhard on watch, Bergie to bed
16.06. 18:45 Z 61°33'14"N 20°55'21"E 193° 3.9kt 1659.8NM wind 10.2kt 310° baro 1016 hPa We just had a short DC system outage. Weird. Turned autopilot off, causing some Parasailor trouble
16.06. 19:54 Z 61°29'17"N 20°54'31"E 152° 2.2kt 1663.2NM wind 5.2kt 295° baro 1016 hPa Autopilot deactivated
16.06. 19:59 Z 61°29'7"N 20°54'32"E 195° 1.7kt 1663.3NM wind 5kt 287° baro 1016 hPa Autopilot set to wind mode. Had to go to 130deg TWA to keep Parasailor filled in the swell
16.06. 20:13 Z 61°28'30"N 20°54'35"E 157° 2.8kt 1664NM wind 5.6kt 259° baro 1016 hPa Autopilot deactivated
16.06. 20:20 Z 61°28'17"N 20°54'45"E 175° 1.5kt 1664.2NM wind 6kt 266° baro 1016 hPa Autopilot set to wind mode, 110deg TWA
16.06. 21:00 Z 61°26'25"N 20°55'42"E 169° 3.2kt 1666.1NM wind 8.8kt 260° baro 1016 hPa Hourly position log
16.06. 21:44 Z 61°23'27"N 20°57'36"E 169° 4.3kt 1669.3NM wind 9.7kt 265° sea state 3/10 clouds 1/8 visibility 7/10 baro 1016 hPa Bergie on watch, Bernhard to bed
16.06. 22:00 Z 61°22'18"N 20°58'20"E 169° 4.7kt 1670.4NM wind 10.7kt 280° sea state 2/10 clouds 0/8 visibility 7/10 baro 1016 hPa Hourly position log
16.06. 23:00 Z 61°17'38"N 20°58'12"E 179° 5kt 1675.2NM wind 10.9kt 285° baro 1016 hPa Hourly position log