Borgholm

As we knew the wind would be coming up this afternoon, we left Kalmar at 8:30 for a 3 hour trip up the Kalmar Sund to Borgholm. Borgholm is the main town on Öland, the narrow island to the East of mainland Sweden (not to be confused with Gotland, which is much bigger and lies about 50 miles off the coast).
Borgholm has a castle ruin and the Royal summer estate 'Solliden' is here.

 Solliden and the 'Royal Mooring Jetty' as seen from the water. There is an exclusion zone around it, we are just outside that zone here.

Borgholm castle ruin 

The wind did indeed pick up (it is actually quite unpleasant weather at the moment, grey, windy and quite cold). In these conditions it is quite tricky to pick up a heck buoy with a side-on wind. This Swedish yacht tried to tie up next to us, went over their own heck-buoy line and ended up getting it into the propellor. It took the harbour master with his dinghy plus a few bystanders to get the boat moored. Now they'll need to dive to get the line out of the prop....

Its likely we'll be here tomorrow as well.