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| Hailstorm Nynäshamn |
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| My mom hurt |
Now after one week of working and being back in Switzerland since Thursday evening of the 4th I start to reflect on all weeks and what happened.
Especially even if things went wrong how blessed I was that so little happened.
Week 1 (1.06.-7.06) Guest: My mom
My mum and I had an awesome week together cleaning the boat, getting it ready and sailing just a shorter stretches to familiarize ourselves with the vessel.
Since one of the first nights we tied up at a SXK buoy while we had a lot of wind over night my mom hardly got any sleep and dreamt that an elk was crying out loud! Thursday that week the big accident happened, she slipped so badly trying to jump on shore that she broke her left elbow. Both the sea rescue boat and an ambulance helicopter came to her rescue. Luckily she has recovered since then and participated at my Kräftskiva (party last week on the boat). That blog post still holds the record high!
Week 2 (7.06.-14.06) Guest: Dee
It was planned for Dee, my mom and myself that week, but now we were just 2. Even if it was cold the week started with really good weather, so we could get used to sailing and everything else.
At our first natural harbor Dee tried to step on shore and slipped, suddenly she was out of sight. I backed the boat and walked up to the front finding her legs in the water clinging frantically to the ladder to not make her new automatic life west go off. Quickly I got the dinghy to her and she was so determined not to get her west wet that in one swoop she was in the little boat and I could pull her to the back to get out and back on board. We were successful after that first challenge tying the boat up at another spot. During our second day sailing weather forecast predicted a big thunderstorm over Stockholm. We were heading south so we were safe, but saw it all day building up higher and higher. When we reached our very sheltered harbor Kyrkviken on Ornö suddenly even there we got some strong gusts while tied up at the pier. We learned later that it had hailed both in Stockholm and Uppsala massively with big storm gusts leading to power outs.Keeping a close watch on the weather forecast led us to having to seek up Nynäshamn on Thursday just after lunch to avoid similar thunderstorms with hail ourselves. Just after an hour of being tied up the hailstorm covered everything with a 5 cm thick layer of hail. We were so lucky to be safe.Both Friday and Saturday was really stormy but not a problem for us we were tied up safely in Nynshamns and even found a spa Havsbaded just 15 minutes walk from the harbor.
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