Our position is 56:15.410N 16:02.690E

Distance covered 21 Nm

We allowed ourselves a bit of a lie in on Thursday as we had only planned a relatively short sail to Kristianopel. On waking the wind still seemed to be blowing hard and the seas at the Western entrance to Utklippan seemed to be breaking fearsomely. Leaving our berth was tricky, as the wind was blowing us on to the wall so we bit the bullet and allowed the tyres to do their worst on Moorglade’s topsides - not too many black marks however – and then managed to manoeuvre ourselves round to get out of the narrow entrance.

Leaving the rocks of Utklippan

Once we were outside the harbour the wind dropped away and running under a poled out genoa was very relaxing. Later the wind strengthened again and made it cold, and by the time we were in the entrance channel it was blowing 30+ knots.

 Easy sailing downwind for this 12m

Time for morning coffee

Followed by a nap in the sunshine

Approaching Kristianopel

There was not a lot of room in the harbour but we were able to squeeze onto the end of a row of boats along the outer quay and deploy our new stern buoy hook for the first time. John & Brenda from Bunny Bee (fellow CA members and Moody owners) helpfully took our bow warps. Later a Dutch boat came in and in spite of the harbourmaster trying to send them to a pontoon outside the harbour, they came in and tied up alongside us.

The harbour was crowded

Fellow Moody owners were helpful

in getting us tied up near the entrance.

The live music turned out to be some sort of TV recording or live broadcast, but it was hardly the BBC. We had a walk around the immediate area and the churchyard.  We didn’t go in the church as there seemed to be a service going on but they were advertising Trumpetmusik at 19:30 and we heard this when we were back on the boat. It seemed a somewhat limited repertoire.

Live television

The graveyard attached to the little church was beautifully tended and I particularly liked the growing flowers rather than vases. Not sure what the trebuchet was doing there though

All in all I thought it was a delightful spot. The sun shone and inside the harbour was really sheltered compared to the wind we had been experiencing outside.

Today’s wildlife – lots of fish in the harbour and an eider duck with slightly different plumage