Saturday 9 June
Today we (motor)sailed North again, into a light Northerly breeze, on a bright, sunny, warm day with good visibility of the coastline a mile or so on our starboard beam. It is still similar to that in Poland – white sand beaches and pine forests. At lunchtime we crossed the border into Latvia, and changed to the next courtesy flag in the stack.
During the afternoon we detoured slightly to avoid an exclusion zone, and tried to fly the genoa, but without success. The mainsail was up, but just for show. We travelled for much of the passage in company with a German singlehander on Olles Wonder, that we first saw on our AIS display back in Stralsund, before the German/Polish border. Skipper made his acquaintance in Łeba, but Mate has yet to meet him.