Leaving the nest!

I've made the first leg of hopefully many. Everything taking always longer than I thought, I left Grödinge quite late in the morning, and in very little wind. Many tacks later, I was finally out of the two small inlets and in Himmerfjärd. The wind picked up and became quite gusty, and these gusts were making the wind veer some 40-45°, enough to either becalm you or to transform a close-hauled into an over sheeted reach, that was making Elvira roll wildly. All in all, this part went quite OK.

Once I had passed Fifång I was in uncharted waters… well not quite. I have charts obviously and the GPS plotter guided me through a small part of the maze (Stockholm's archipelago). At some point, though, it told me to follow a path that for a long while looked like going straight on rocks. Sure enough, there was indeed a path in there somehow, and I emerged on the other side of the rocks unscathed.

From there the way to my first stop was relatively simple, wind 3/4 back, and I was in Nynäshamn!

I covered 32nm in 6h40, good start?