Jomfruland, 20 May

First post on this site was in Norwegian, so, sorry to those who couldn’t read it.

I now have two sites, this one, josinjohn.com, and one in Norwegian, josinjohnnorsk.com., on which I have just posted.

I shall try very hard not to mix things in future.

19th May turned out to be not too bad, but the wind was still against and rather too much. However, progress is better than none and after a bouncy ride for three hours with the engine doing it’s thing, and a short period of sailing over the Larvik fjord, where we had to do a pirouette to satisfy a large and insistent freighter that we were not really in his way, we arrived in Stavern. Tied up behind the highish stone jetty, out of the wind, which was blowing uncomfortably over the guest-jetty.

Friend Sven Rønne came to meet me and kindly drove me in to Larvik to do some forgotten-things shopping. Spent a pleasant evening with him, eating home-made pizza.

The forecast was for a weather window early today, so the alarm was set for 5 o’clock. Correct, and by 6 we were off in calm conditions. The wind gradually increased and sailable and we rushed across the Langesund fjord and in behind the long island of Jomfruland, just, as predicted, it started to rain. Up with the cockpit canopy. ‘After  breakfast’s second half, and a catch-up on sleep, we will remain here until the weather improves.

Took pics, but cannot succeed in attaching one yet. Must read the instructions.

All’s well