Waiting for a weather window for passage

So here I am, in the southern Stockholm archipelago. Sailed here with a good enough north, by northwest wind. But yesterday the weather gods commanded a break, time to rest and prepare for longer passage to Gotland (17 hours sail). The wind is B5 from south or southwest. So I am anchored in a small well-sheltered bay at the island of FifĂ„ng. Fixing with the wind vane steering (it squeeled and squicked), and doing some other maintenance jobs, meanwhile enjoying birds singing, sun shining, free anchorage… You get my point? Enjoying life on Isabell. Possibly tomorrow night the wind will change back to north for a spell, and if it does I have to make sure to follow it down to Visby. We’ll see how it goes. There are always things to do, if there are no places to go! Cheers!

Author: captain

Johannes, born in 1960 in Zierikzee, The Netherlands. Owner of S/Y Isabell. Retired environmental toxicologist, now living aboard and sailing south.