Siafortet to Gallno

We had a difficult time extricating ourselves from Siafortet because we had a gusty easterly wind blowing along the line of the harbour. We waited till our neighbours had left and then pulled back on the tape securing us to the buoy. Badger immediately turned donind so that at one point the tape was at rightangles to the buoy. It was very difficult to pull in in a sudden gust and Badger's bow only just cleared the stern of the next but one boat. I had a desperate struggle to get the stern up to the buoy and another struggle to unhook the boathook. I also had to untangle my feet from the tape to get the boat motoring away from the mooring. After that it got easier. We put up the jibe and motored off down the main highway for a while watching for passing liners before turning Sout past Linanas with the wind slowly heading us. We had a glorous sail, perhaps the best this year, getting 6 kts. from time to time and passing bigger boats. By now we were sailing along the west side of Sodra Ljustero and heading for a small gap between it and Grinda at 59N25.3, 18E33.3. At this point we were headed and reverted to engine to wriggle our way by degrees to our preferred anchorage at 59N24.25,18E38.8. We lay here for a couple of days enjoying hot weather and swimming. We also wandered into the settlement through forest and pasture. I was made very angry by bits of police tape saying keep out that were hanging from branches along the route and so removed them. In the settlement i was told that there was a fun race round the island starting soon and the tape was for that purpose - so I had to walk back and replace it. At the settlement we bought food and had a pleasant lunch before returning to Badger.