We left Læsø yesterday morning at 0815, I can't remember when I have seen such a packed harbour - worse than Skagen. As we came out, we saw some boats at anchor outside because of lack of room! We hoisted the mainsail in the fishing harbour before going out, and rolled out the genoa as soon as we were clear of the moles. There was a good wind from the south and we made good speed up to the end of Englishman's bank ( named after an english vessel that ran aground ). Further round the coast is a reef called Danzigmand, for the same reason.
After clearing the reef, we set course 051 deg for Donsö, in Sweden ( one of the offlying islands outside Gothenburg). The sea was very lumpy, so we rolled and pitched all the way to the outlying skerries.The breaking swell was a good meter high. We arrived at Donsö harbour at 1430 after a distance of about 28 nm.The wind had gone round to southeast during the morning. We were lucky to find an alongside berth in Donsö, it filled up later in the day, with some rafted out. This is a fine sheltered harbour, from all but northern winds.
Today is wet and windy, but may clear up in the afternoon, so we may walk the nature trail then. The forecast for tomorrow is also for very windy and wet too, so we'll stay here until Saturday. We are hearing that they have had heavy flooding inland in the smålands area, following a dam bursting, because of the unusually heavy rain when we were back in Denmark.
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