Wednesday 1 August
Continuing our journey Northeast towards the open sea, we made the most of a steady F3 Easterly on the genoa to motorsail an alternative route from the one we’d followed on the way in to Stockholm. Still avoiding the main ferry tracks wherever possible, we picked up a somewhat garbled Mayday call on our VHF radio, from a British yacht that was reporting having run aground a little way ahead of us. We were not close enough to reach them any time soon, but maintained radio watch and soon heard the Swedish rescue service offering assistance. Later in the day the yacht appeared on our AIS monitor, and we tried to make radio contact to check they were okay. It seemed, however, that our radio was once again receiving but not transmitting, and Skipper spent a sticky hour at the chart table taking apart the connections once again, cleaning them up and reinstalling everything. Fortunately, this seemed to do the trick.
We anchored at the third attempt just South of the island of Gålgryte, in water a little more open than Mate prefers, but at least there was some welcome breeze.