Bockhamn - Hamina
The nature harbour of Bockhamn was indeed quite protected. For the past few days, it was blowing 30-40kt outside with 2-3m waves. We were sitting happily in our quiet pond, seeing 5kt or less of wind, reading and occasionally grilling. I feel sorry for the couple of sailboats that had to leave in the middle of it to go to a marina to charge batteries!
Today we decided to sail on, utilizing the favourable wind direction at the coattails of the storm. Since high winds were still in the menu, we took the cautious approach of starting the day with the main on second reef and the staysail.
Early on, this felt a bit overcautious, as we were making somewhat slow progress in ~15kt winds, following the winding fairway between the skerries. But as we passed Loviisa, the wind started filling in. After that we were mostly blasting along at hull speed wing on wing, and seeing gusts up to 34kt. At that point we were quite glad of our selected sail plan!
As we passed the normally busy port town of Kotka, the only other boats braving the weather were the local Optimist dinghy kids.
Now we’re in the old bastion fortress city of Hamina near the Finnish eastern border. We’ll do some provisioning and visit the local museums before returning to the archipelago.
- Distance today: 43.6NM
- Total distance: 1983.9NM
- Engine hours: 0.5
- Lunch: oven feta pasta
| Time |
Position |
Course |
Speed |
Log |
Weather |
Remarks |
| 05.07. 10:09 Z |
60°16'4"N
25°59'49"E
|
4°
|
0kt
|
2025.4NM
|
wind
1.9kt
160°
baro 1009 hPa
|
Started main engine
|
| 05.07. 10:16 Z |
60°16'3"N
25°59'57"E
|
120°
|
3.7kt
|
2025.4NM
|
wind
13.2kt
225°
baro 1010 hPa
|
Motoring
|
| 05.07. 10:28 Z |
60°15'21"N
26°0'23"E
|
126°
|
4kt
|
2026.2NM
|
wind
18.5kt
210°
baro 1009 hPa
|
Motor stopped, sailing with Main (2nd reef), Staysail
|
| 05.07. 11:00 Z |
60°15'57"N
26°5'55"E
|
60°
|
5.3kt
|
2029.1NM
|
wind
22.6kt
204°
baro 1010 hPa
|
Hourly position log
|
| 05.07. 11:09 Z |
60°15'54"N
26°7'30"E
|
103°
|
5.2kt
|
2029.9NM
|
wind
15.3kt
204°
baro 1010 hPa
|
Autopilot activated
|
| 05.07. 11:14 Z |
60°15'52"N
26°8'26"E
|
101°
|
4.9kt
|
2030.4NM
|
wind
17.1kt
198°
baro 1010 hPa
|
Started watermaker, 15ppm
|
| 05.07. 11:41 Z |
60°16'0"N
26°13'5"E
|
69°
|
5.3kt
|
2032.7NM
|
wind
14.8kt
200°
sea state 3/10
clouds 4/8
visibility 7/10
baro 1011 hPa
|
Wing on wing
|
| 05.07. 12:00 Z |
60°16'45"N
26°16'16"E
|
69°
|
4.8kt
|
2034.5NM
|
wind
15.2kt
222°
baro 1011 hPa
|
Hourly position log
|
| 05.07. 13:00 Z |
60°18'46"N
26°25'54"E
|
71°
|
6.9kt
|
2039.7NM
|
wind
23.3kt
210°
baro 1011 hPa
|
Hourly position log
|
| 05.07. 14:00 Z |
60°21'12"N
26°38'31"E
|
66°
|
8.2kt
|
2046.4NM
|
wind
25.1kt
228°
sea state 4/10
clouds 3/8
visibility 7/10
baro 1011 hPa
|
Hourly position log
|
| 05.07. 14:35 Z |
60°22'40"N
26°46'27"E
|
87°
|
6kt
|
2050.7NM
|
wind
22.1kt
217°
baro 1011 hPa
|
Stopped watermaker, 15ppm. Made about 17l of water
|
| 05.07. 14:56 Z |
60°23'25"N
26°51'12"E
|
86°
|
7.8kt
|
2053.2NM
|
wind
28.6kt
231°
baro 1012 hPa
|
Autopilot deactivated
|
| 05.07. 15:00 Z |
60°23'38"N
26°52'3"E
|
79°
|
7kt
|
2053.6NM
|
wind
23kt
229°
baro 1012 hPa
|
Hourly position log
|
| 05.07. 15:20 Z |
60°25'6"N
26°55'21"E
|
55°
|
6.6kt
|
2055.9NM
|
wind
26.3kt
258°
baro 1012 hPa
|
Navigating tablet turned off
|
| 05.07. 16:00 Z |
60°28'3"N
27°0'56"E
|
74°
|
6.5kt
|
2060.2NM
|
wind
18.4kt
233°
baro 1012 hPa
|
Tablet died again. From 11 to 5 in about 30 min
|
| 05.07. 16:21 Z |
60°28'28"N
27°5'8"E
|
54°
|
6.1kt
|
2062.4NM
|
wind
17.8kt
230°
baro 1012 hPa
|
Sails set: Main (2nd reef)
|
| 05.07. 16:45 Z |
60°30'4"N
27°8'39"E
|
39°
|
5.2kt
|
2064.8NM
|
wind
22.1kt
246°
baro 1012 hPa
|
Tablet charged to 45% and turned on. Charging on the holder.
|
| 05.07. 17:00 Z |
60°31'12"N
27°10'44"E
|
56°
|
5.7kt
|
2066.3NM
|
wind
17.7kt
231°
baro 1012 hPa
|
Hourly position log
|
| 05.07. 17:27 Z |
60°33'3"N
27°10'43"E
|
7°
|
3.8kt
|
2068.4NM
|
wind
16kt
233°
baro 1012 hPa
|
Sails down, motoring
|
| 05.07. 17:38 Z |
60°33'30"N
27°10'53"E
|
208°
|
0kt
|
2068.9NM
|
wind
10.4kt
226°
baro 1012 hPa
|
Stopped
|