Tuesday September 14th
Position 55′ 52″N 12′ 43″ E
Course: 004′ T Speed: 11 Kts Days run: 222 miles
Wind: Direction 200’T Speed 23 Kts
Weather: Raining and overcast
News
Monday afternoon we spent slugging it out trying to get some southerly direction in. We changed our heading a bit to try and gain a little lee of the island of Oland. This worked out fairly well and we skirted the coast a mile off and the boat speed climbed back up to a respectable 9-10 knots. That lasted until we reached the Southern end of the island at 18:00 and our course turned more southwest and we were pounding into it again. We entered the traffic separation scheme there and were on the highway out of the Baltic, all though we were definitely in the slow lane at the moment. The speed averaged about 8 knots over the 24hour period and we finally we made it around the Southern tip of Sweden and headed North entering the channel off Copenhagen at 11:00.
John