21st -22nd June 2015 Malma Kvarn to Ingmarso

With a reasonable forecast of cloud and easterly breeze we decided it was time to leave Malma Kvarn and head north on our way to the Aland Islands. We made a neat exit from the harbour but found two problems getting the main up. Firstly the second and third reefing lines fouled each other - easily solved. The second was that the mainsail foot was not fully extended. We had to lower it a little on the halliard and winch out the foot using the mast winch. We soon got the sail fully hoisted and set off NE along Namdo Fjard. We used the motor as well as the main - so wind assisted motoring. We'd left harbour quite late , about 0930 so the motor boats were soon passing at high speed cutting up the water and slowing us quite noticeably.
We wriggled our way through to Kanholms Fjard, a big open area of water, completely surrounded by land, where Russian submarines were or were not seen a few months ago. It is certainly deep, we noted 99 metres on the echo sounder, but it was also choppy. At one point we had violent motion as Kristin was making lunch. We were in the middle of standing waves with peaks at 5 metre intervals in all directions; very uncomfortable. We also were crossing a big ship route into Stockholm but no ships appeared. We then dived back into intricate passage close to Ladna. Our only slight drama was a narrow passage at 59N25.4, 18E45.3 where we passed over a shoal between two islands where the depth reduced to 1.3 metres below the keel. We reached Ingmarso  after a very pleasant journey, mostly in warm sunshine of 18 miles.
Ingmarso has a very welcoming marina attached to a boatyard and with rowing boats available to make getting to shop (singular) and restaurant convenient.
Those of you with access to Google Earth may wish to  work out our route from Malma Kvarn 59N15.4,18E18.9 to Ingmarso 59N27.91, 18E45.41.
The weather is warming up a little . It's now 14C in the cabin at light and reasonably comfortable during the day. We will not be swimming yet but some children did so in Malma Kvarn yesterday.