Roll and go

I went across most of the High Coast today.

The wind was quite moderate and in my face to start with, then around 1pm it lowered, but thankfully it veered to the south-east at the same time, and so I could progress slowly but easily with the wind 3/4 back. Now that I'm out of crochet to do, it's sometimes a bit long to stay without touching a sail for 3–4 hours in a row 😅. Mind you, I've the harmonicas, but I can't play for hours on end, and it also takes up more of my attention. So I listen to music and sometimes also to the adventures of Aubrey and Maturin (because there is never enough boats in one's life 🤣).

Again, I'm a bit disappointed at the pictures… The islands, cliffs, and rock are so very much more impressive when seen directly from the boat.

At the end of the day as I was about to go to a marina in Husum, I thought I had been to many of these lately, and I was a bit lame. As I was slowly approaching the channel to the harbour, I spotted a really promising bay with a long shallow but not too shallow area and thought that would be a good spot to use the bow anchor. Funnily enough, a nice sailboat with red sails I've been following and catching up with for the last 2 hours or so did the same thing, which reassured me as to the well-foundedness of this idea 😅.

I also thought that I could do without using the engine this time, I rolled the headsail, prepared the anchor line, arrived slowly, let the mainsail fly and threw the anchor and 🎉.

And here I am! Trollön, the island of the troll.