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Thunder over Mariehamn
Change again, one crew leaving other one coming Saturday except Martin that stayed one additional night and took the ferry to Stockholm at 4.30 o'clock this morning.
It is always sad to say goodbye after an eventful good week, but for me it is also exciting to start fresh with new friends. This week my friends Katja and Lukas very experienced sailors joined me. We know each other since I started to sail Fireball on the Biel lake summer 2004. We have had regattas and many ski - fondue events together since then. I feel fortunate to have them this week when I want to sail back across Ålands hav to Sweden.
After their arrival Saturday afternoon we checked our food supplies and being informed that the supermarket closes at 17h they went shopping with Martin just before 16h, while I picked up another sea chart from the northern area of Sweden across from Åland. I arrived at the supermarket shortly after 16 to join them, but doors were locked. It turns out high season ended 27th July and therefore stores close earlier and are not open on Sundays anymore.
They managed to get 2/3rd of our shopping list in just 15 minutes -great accomplishment!
For the rest we will just have to improvise!
One thing that worried me a bit after Fridays harbour maneuver was how to get out between the narrow bollards, backing was no option. We had discussed pushing the front off to the side and leave forward but that could become tricky with main wind direction.
After seeing Martin off at 4 in the morning we had breakfast hours later. Plan was to have lunch at Rödhamn 8 sm south east. Watching the dark clouds gathering over Mariehamn we were skeptical first to go, but were assured that our sailing direction was away from the weather front seen also on the rain radar. Just when we wanted to leave we had no wind, lucky us for our bollards maneuver!
Sky looked scary when we left, but except for hearing thunder and seeing some flash, we only got 10 drops of rain. Arriving in Rödhamn around 13 to have a great lunch and sunny sky.
Now we have arrived at Jungfruskär for the night a wonderful natural harbour south of West Mariehamn know for their pine trees of a specific branch endangered, but existing on this island. Very cool!
We are still so full from lunch that a very late dinner will be on.
Such a great first sailing day with Katja and Lukas!
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