Archangelsk to Kirkenes - part one
Minka of Southampton - Cruising Log
Edmund Wigan
Wed 27 Jul 2011 07:24
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We have now been going for a day and a half and
making good progress. Last night we came up to a coastguard cutter who had
obviously been waiting for us. He called us up on VHF and asked us to identify
ourselves and wanted to know where Seeadler and Bagatela were. We only knew they
were at least twenty miles behind us as they had been out of radio contact for
over 12 hours.
They approved our request to anchor overnight in a
bay
 Yes, that is snow on the land. It was a quite
shallow rocky bottom and next morning we left on a low tide so the skipper took
the opportunity to check the keel was well bolted on. We had expected that the
other two boats would have caught us up overnight but there was no sign of them.
However the coastguard cutter had followed us up the coast and was two miles off
our anchorage.
 I think you can just see it in this picture.
Michael called them up and they told us trhat Seeadler was 45 nm behind us. They
kindly approved an anchorage for us to stay in tonight which we should get to by
midnight. Michael has just discovered that the water tank has emptied itself
into the bilges so we may press on to Kirkenes overnight although it isn't a
problem as we have plenty of beer and a couple of canisters of water. The sea
water here is not very salty so it is fine for washing and washing
up.
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