20 Knt Birthday sail to Sjeonget

After a nice day in downtown Trondheim, we had to get out of the city centre canal via the lifting bridge at 1720. As we went out of the outer harbour it was obvious a good sail was going to be had 12 knots just of the wind we could aim at the entrance to the Fjord 10 miles NE and we hit 6.5 kts as soon as the sails went up. We even had another boat to race (they didn’t know) we gave the a head start of about a mile but they had no chance as the might Morvenna wound up. Claire steered well and rolled her eyes as I trimmed the sails in full race mode. The wind built to a steady 18kts we creamed along at 8kts. The competition had no chance. They sailed as if they were having a nice week end away. As we reached the entrance to the fjord the wind reached 20 plus as it funnelled and we peaked at 9.5 kts we had another 10 miles to run on this evening adventure. We had pick out a likely anchorage. Looked perfect.
It wasn’t as the wind died in the lee of the anchorage we could see the industrial cooling chimneys of a giant processing plant . Luckily the anchorage was sheltered, had good holding and was more or less out of range of the plant . Cheese and pickle sandwich then bed.

Strangely this is to be the furthest North we will go on this trip and everything else will we South for the foreseeable future. Seems a strange place to be our ultimate destination. Still no seas otters for ClaireRead more