To Karlskrona

As we woke up today at 7, we could hear boats moving all around us. Clearly everyone was leaving early! We had planned to leave a 8, but as there was no wind we just had a cup of coffee and decided to have breakfast 'en route'. So just before 7:30 we were off. An hour later we passed the windmills:





Then we got to Torhamns Udde, the South Eastern point of mainland Sweden and tucked into a narrow channel that leads into the last skärgård of this year's trip, the Karlskrona skärgård. As always, there are yachts moored in the typical Swedish fashion: nose tied to a spike or ring in a rock and a back anchor:





Each day you will see literally hundreds of yachts anchored this way. We have not done it yet, but hopefully next year the day will come!

By midday and 30 miles later, we were in Karlskrona. As the weather forecast for the next few days predicts quite a lot of wind and we'll soon be out of the skärgård, we will wait here for a few days. Karlskrona is an old maritime city and will surely yield some interesting tidbits for tomorrow's post!

Location:Argongatan,Karlskrona,Sweden