Visby - Marsö
Sunday promised to be a slow day with the spinnaker up. We prepared everything already in the harbour and hoisted the spinnaker in its sock up already in the calm waters behind the wave breaker. As soon as we passed it, we hoisted the sock and were on our merry way towards west and mainland Sweden.
As long as we had wind, it was nice and effortless sailing. Checking the traffic and reading books. We expected the wind to slowly die down towards the evening but weather had other plans. The wind died after some 20 nautical miles and we were forced to motor the rest of the way. In the end it became a blessing in disguise as all of a sudden a very thick fog covered us. We couldn’t see more than 0.2 NM at times, so we promptly sounded a Suski-powered fog horn every 2 minutes.
Now we are again tied to a rock in the archipelago looking for a sunny day tomorrow charging our fairly depleted batteries.
- Distance today: 52.7NM
- Total distance: 2617.7NM
- Engine hours: 7.1
- Lunch: chanterelle risotto
| Time |
Position |
Course |
Speed |
Log |
Weather |
Remarks |
| 20.08. 4:15 Z |
57°38'16"N
18°17'12"E
|
4°
|
0kt
|
2653.4NM
|
wind
3.8kt
55°
baro 1021 hPa
|
Started main engine
|
| 20.08. 4:28 Z |
57°38'15"N
18°17'6"E
|
228°
|
2.2kt
|
2653.4NM
|
wind
3.6kt
113°
baro 1021 hPa
|
Motoring
|
| 20.08. 4:44 Z |
57°38'5"N
18°15'46"E
|
287°
|
3.3kt
|
2654.2NM
|
wind
7.7kt
42°
baro 1021 hPa
|
Motor stopped, sailing with Parasailor
|
| 20.08. 4:45 Z |
57°38'6"N
18°15'45"E
|
292°
|
3.5kt
|
2654.2NM
|
wind
7.1kt
39°
baro 1021 hPa
|
Autopilot activated. Suski on watch
|
| 20.08. 5:00 Z |
57°38'13"N
18°14'20"E
|
284°
|
3.1kt
|
2655NM
|
wind
7.5kt
50°
baro 1021 hPa
|
Hourly position log
|
| 20.08. 6:00 Z |
57°38'44"N
18°7'11"E
|
279°
|
4.4kt
|
2658.9NM
|
wind
8.3kt
81°
baro 1021 hPa
|
Hourly position log
|
| 20.08. 7:00 Z |
57°39'31"N
17°58'51"E
|
286°
|
5kt
|
2663.4NM
|
wind
11.7kt
45°
baro 1021 hPa
|
Hourly position log
|
| 20.08. 8:00 Z |
57°40'2"N
17°50'37"E
|
277°
|
4.4kt
|
2667.8NM
|
wind
9.6kt
48°
baro 1021 hPa
|
Hourly position log
|
| 20.08. 8:15 Z |
57°40'3"N
17°48'35"E
|
275°
|
4.2kt
|
2668.9NM
|
wind
7.5kt
75°
baro 1021 hPa
|
We’ve now used 19/20 brennspiritus bottles we took on this trip.
|
| 20.08. 8:50 Z |
57°40'24"N
17°44'53"E
|
238°
|
2.3kt
|
2671NM
|
wind
5.3kt
64°
baro 1021 hPa
|
Autopilot deactivated
|
| 20.08. 9:00 Z |
57°40'25"N
17°44'21"E
|
248°
|
1.8kt
|
2671.3NM
|
wind
5.2kt
59°
baro 1021 hPa
|
Hourly position log
|
| 20.08. 9:00 Z |
57°40'25"N
17°44'20"E
|
297°
|
0.6kt
|
2671.3NM
|
wind
5.2kt
47°
baro 1021 hPa
|
Parasailor back into the sock, too little wind with these waves
|
| 20.08. 9:04 Z |
57°40'24"N
17°44'11"E
|
218°
|
2.2kt
|
2671.4NM
|
wind
6.2kt
54°
baro 1021 hPa
|
Sails down, motoring
|
| 20.08. 9:08 Z |
57°40'15"N
17°43'40"E
|
233°
|
5.4kt
|
2671.7NM
|
wind
4.7kt
185°
baro 1021 hPa
|
Autopilot activated
|
| 20.08. 10:00 Z |
57°39'46"N
17°35'22"E
|
264°
|
5.1kt
|
2676.2NM
|
wind
6.7kt
24°
baro 1021 hPa
|
Hourly position log
|
| 20.08. 10:17 Z |
57°39'37"N
17°32'40"E
|
258°
|
4.9kt
|
2677.6NM
|
wind
5.9kt
16°
sea state 3/10
clouds 8/8
visibility 4/10
baro 1021 hPa
|
Bergie on watch
|
| 20.08. 10:46 Z |
57°39'29"N
17°28'25"E
|
273°
|
2kt
|
2679.9NM
|
wind
5.8kt
72°
baro 1021 hPa
|
Motor stopped, sailing with Parasailor
|
| 20.08. 11:00 Z |
57°39'28"N
17°27'20"E
|
263°
|
1.9kt
|
2680.5NM
|
wind
5.7kt
67°
baro 1021 hPa
|
Hourly position log
|
| 20.08. 11:46 Z |
57°39'34"N
17°24'30"E
|
269°
|
1.3kt
|
2682NM
|
wind
5.5kt
63°
baro 1021 hPa
|
Sails down, motoring
|
| 20.08. 12:00 Z |
57°39'43"N
17°22'36"E
|
279°
|
5.3kt
|
2683NM
|
wind
6.1kt
54°
baro 1021 hPa
|
A hawk came to check us out, circling the boat at a close distance
|
| 20.08. 13:00 Z |
57°39'45"N
17°13'12"E
|
251°
|
5.2kt
|
2688.1NM
|
wind
3.7kt
288°
baro 1021 hPa
|
Hourly position log
|
| 20.08. 13:27 Z |
57°39'32"N
17°8'56"E
|
262°
|
4.8kt
|
2690.4NM
|
wind
0.7kt
260°
baro 1021 hPa
|
We definitely found the wind hole
|
| 20.08. 14:00 Z |
57°39'8"N
17°3'46"E
|
258°
|
5kt
|
2693.2NM
|
wind
0.3kt
261°
baro 1020 hPa
|
Hourly position log
|
| 20.08. 14:07 Z |
57°39'2"N
17°2'40"E
|
254°
|
4.8kt
|
2693.8NM
|
wind
0.8kt
253°
sea state 2/10
clouds 8/8
visibility 4/10
baro 1021 hPa
|
Fog is lifting a little bit
|
| 20.08. 14:25 Z |
57°38'43"N
16°59'53"E
|
257°
|
5kt
|
2695.3NM
|
wind
4.9kt
313°
baro 1020 hPa
|
Looks like we already got the westerly wind shift that was supposed to come tonight
|
| 20.08. 15:00 Z |
57°38'16"N
16°54'24"E
|
265°
|
5.8kt
|
2698.3NM
|
wind
2.5kt
276°
baro 1020 hPa
|
Hourly position log
|
| 20.08. 16:00 Z |
57°38'56"N
16°45'12"E
|
294°
|
4.7kt
|
2703.4NM
|
wind
1.7kt
33°
baro 1020 hPa
|
Hourly position log
|
| 20.08. 16:06 Z |
57°39'10"N
16°44'25"E
|
307°
|
5.1kt
|
2703.9NM
|
wind
1.5kt
326°
baro 1020 hPa
|
Autopilot deactivated
|
| 20.08. 16:38 Z |
57°39'24"N
16°41'25"E
|
341°
|
0kt
|
2706.1NM
|
wind
3.1kt
144°
baro 1020 hPa
|
Stopped
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