Tuesday 29 May
After an ignominious departure we left Ustka early, knowing the proposed 30M passage would be a lot longer. By 1000 the mainsail and genoa were set, and we came off the wind slightly to fill the sails for the first of a series of tacks between the shipping lanes and the five-metre contour, that is as close as we choose to sail to a lee shore in reasonable weather. We maintained a pattern of tacking around each 45 minutes, reefing the mainsail and changing down to the staysail as usual, when the wind built in the early afternoon.
By teatime we had covered 46 Miles, and sailed to within ¼M of the port of Łeba, where we furled the jib and Skipper dropped the mainsail into its bag along the boom. Once again we surfed into the entrance around the mole, and headed for the marina. The bosman was waiting to direct us to a very bouncy hammerhead fitted with small mooring rings, where we were glad of his help to tie us on. A number of familiar yachts were already in harbour.