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Friday, April 12, 2024

Ingegärdsholmen, 151NM N of Copenhagen

Weather prognosis held true, 20 kn gusting to 30, waves around 1.5 meters. Wind beam to broad reach for us, so a perfect opportunity to head towards Sweden and the Archipelago on the west coast. The weather called for staysail and main in 1st reef. We were expecting a fast and bumpy ride and we got it.

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With these conditions there is no ‘chilling’ while on watch. As the there is still not that much sea room and there is quite a bit of traffic, one must keep to boat steering straight even with the constant wind shifts and an occasional ‘mama wave’. The bit that the weather forecast got wrong was fog, but the newly installed loudspeaker did its job and gave the correct loud noise with the correct intervals.

As the amount of daylight is still a finite resource we had planned diversion options to turn towards when it was about to get dark. This time the fog was the decision maker, and we turned it slightly before sunset. The last bit we motored between the extremely narrow fairways between the rocks with maybe 300m visibility, and are now moored at a SXK buoy.

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We have put the first 7 days of our journey into good use!

From the logbook

Time Position Course Speed Log Weather Remarks
12.04. 0:00 Z 56°34'55"N 12°8'50"E 341° 3.4kt 3598.4NM wind 14.3kt 240° baro 1027 hPa Hourly position log
12.04. 1:00 Z 56°38'27"N 12°6'18"E 328° 4kt 3602.3NM wind 14.6kt 227° baro 1026 hPa Hourly position log
12.04. 2:00 Z 56°42'39"N 12°4'14"E 331° 3.6kt 3606.7NM wind 13.6kt 226° baro 1026 hPa Hourly position log
12.04. 3:00 Z 56°46'30"N 12°1'0"E 328° 4.4kt 3611.1NM wind 14.4kt 219° baro 1026 hPa Hourly position log
12.04. 3:41 Z 56°48'43"N 11°58'47"E 316° 3.2kt 3613.6NM wind 14.4kt 222° baro 1026 hPa Autopilot activated
12.04. 3:43 Z 56°48'47"N 11°58'41"E 342° 3.2kt 3613.7NM wind 12.2kt 218° baro 1025 hPa Autopilot deactivated, windvane steering
12.04. 3:59 Z 56°49'43"N 11°57'32"E 327° 4.3kt 3614.9NM wind 15.9kt 230° baro 1025 hPa Hourly position log
12.04. 5:00 Z 56°54'32"N 11°52'10"E 335° 5.3kt 3620.6NM wind 20.1kt 232° baro 1025 hPa Hourly position log
12.04. 5:21 Z 56°56'18"N 11°50'40"E 332° 6.5kt 3622.6NM wind 18.8kt 213° sea state 3/10 clouds 8/8 visibility 4/10 baro 1024 hPa Fog
12.04. 6:00 Z 56°59'23"N 11°47'44"E 330° 5.9kt 3626.1NM wind 19.4kt 215° sea state 3/10 clouds 8/8 visibility 4/10 baro 1024 hPa Bergie on watch
12.04. 7:00 Z 57°4'34"N 11°43'5"E 341° 6kt 3631.9NM wind 17.8kt 204° baro 1023 hPa Hourly position log
12.04. 7:32 Z 57°7'15"N 11°40'57"E 332° 4.9kt 3634.9NM wind 20.1kt 214° sea state 3/10 clouds 8/8 visibility 5/10 baro 1022 hPa Fog is lifting, but occasional showers. Current has turned favourable
12.04. 8:00 Z 57°9'46"N 11°38'28"E 345° 6kt 3637.8NM wind 21kt 203° baro 1022 hPa Hourly position log
12.04. 8:59 Z 57°15'15"N 11°36'15"E 352° 6kt 3643.5NM wind 19.5kt 208° baro 1021 hPa Hourly position log
12.04. 11:00 Z 57°28'14"N 11°30'56"E 343° 6.3kt 3657NM wind 23.9kt 212° baro 1018 hPa Hourly position log
12.04. 12:00 Z 57°33'38"N 11°29'19"E 337° 4.3kt 3662.5NM wind 21.3kt 221° baro 1019 hPa Hourly position log
12.04. 13:00 Z 57°37'58"N 11°28'1"E 23° 3.7kt 3667NM wind 17.1kt 238° baro 1018 hPa Hourly position log
12.04. 14:00 Z 57°42'24"N 11°28'29"E 26° 4.4kt 3671.5NM wind 15.4kt 254° baro 1018 hPa Hourly position log
12.04. 15:00 Z 57°48'14"N 11°28'26"E 10° 6.6kt 3677.4NM wind 21.6kt 265° baro 1018 hPa Hourly position log
12.04. 15:46 Z 57°53'2"N 11°30'46"E 61° 6.2kt 3682.6NM wind 19.9kt 273° sea state 2/10 clouds 8/8 visibility 2/10 baro 1018 hPa Stowed hydrogenerator and hand steering.
12.04. 16:00 Z 57°53'59"N 11°32'31"E 60° 5.5kt 3683.9NM wind 15.6kt 281° baro 1018 hPa Hourly position log
12.04. 16:28 Z 57°56'10"N 11°32'43"E 316° 3.4kt 3686.3NM wind 12.8kt 273° sea state 2/10 clouds 8/8 visibility 2/10 baro 1018 hPa Sails down, motoring
12.04. 17:00 Z 57°58'1"N 11°31'45"E 1° 5.2kt 3689.1NM wind 12.4kt 282° baro 1018 hPa Hourly position log
12.04. 17:28 Z 57°59'3"N 11°31'45"E 228° 0kt 3690.3NM wind 6.2kt 271° baro 1018 hPa Stopped, SXK Ingegärdsholmen