Our last report was from Helsinki; this one comes from Kejsarhamn - a harbour whose fame comes from the Tzar and family spending holidays here in 1865 etc.
11/7
We slipped away from the delights of Helsinki after a last visit to the market to buy fish and cheese. We motored back to Porkala against a fresh SW breeze: on the nose of course.
12/7 From Porkala we made for Elisaari and had a good sail NW accross the open waters before going into the wind as we turned south again. We spent two nights there as it is both pretty and peaceful.
14/7 we motored westward to a new harbour, Sommaro south of Ekenas. Our plotter let us down here, not having the buoys on the route, so it was back to paper charts. We had a good steak and chips there but little in the way of food was available at the shop. We rigged our tarpaulin tent again against heavy rain that evening and night.
13/7
We left early to Hanko to get supplies - which we did with some difficulty. Hanko is not a good shopping centre. We stayed again at the yacht club marina in spite of the price just because it is quiet, well equipped and as lovely rocks. We also managed to eat a fishy cold table for lunch on two successive days greedy and very good value.
14/7
We had a brisk SW again to motor into as we left Hanko but we did manage to sail close hauled up to the WNW for a whiel doing 6.5 kts. on a reefed jib and no main, which leased us because of Badger's great performance We arrived in Keyserhamn and enjoyed the company of Barry Davey. Today at the Farmers Cafe we enjoyed a wonderful fish soup. We then had to move the boat as the stern anchor dragged but managed after running aground to moor on the more sheltered side of the pontoon - all in rain. The sun is now shining again and we will be off on the return journey towards Sweden tomrow if the weather is kind.
love to you all
Roger and Kristin
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