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Jennie B - ARC Baltic - Helsinki



We loved Helsinki, lovely city, lovely people, lovely weather. We don't know what it's like in the winter but in the summer it's great. The historic NJK yacht club is in a good location with impressive views of Helsinki City centre across the harbour. The crew dinner hosted by the NJK was another splendid evening although we did have "sticker shock" at the price of drinks in Finland. We left the NJK with a parade of sail on Friday 1st August heading west through the Finnish Archipelago in the general direction of Sweden. So here we are again picking our route through little islands, big islands, tree covered islands even the odd white bird poo covered island. Fortunately the channels between islands are well marked and using the detailed Finnish charts we've successfully navigated our way through, so far that is. On Friday night we and a few other rally boats anchored in the small nature harbour at Modermagan. This small natural harbour, which has been in use since the Viking Age, provided excellent shelter and holding. Saturday morning saw an early start as we are heading on an almost 90 nm passage to the island of Kokar where will again anchor before the short 40 nm hop to Mariehamn on Sunday. We are currently on passage, the sun is out, the sea is flat and we are making good progress.

Paul & Elaine


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