Friday 18 May
Last Friday, we sailed from Sweden via Danish waters to Germany. Today we left a grey and flat calm Germany for a bright and sunny Poland, where we enjoyed a lovely reach across the Zalew Szczecinski lagoon and a run down the Odra river, sometimes goosewinging the main and genoa. Skipper was kept busy with frequent gybes of the foresail, and a couple of full gybes as we followed the curves of the channel. Mate was thrilled to be sailing me between lush green banks, spotting sea eagles and watching lines of cormorants undulating as they flew by.
Mate turned me close to the bank into the wind for Skipper to drop my mainsail, and we slid across a very shallow patch into the evening’s anchorage, a little exposed until the wind dropped away, but another beautiful sunset.