One of the best parts of having a boat in some lost place is doing the delivery to bring it somewhere else. Like towards back home.On this trip my dad and I flew out to Tallinn and took a taxi to Lahusalu where Christina and I had left it. Aside from w ai ting for our bags to be delivered we had an uneventful sail to Haapsalu where a clear air gale of 30 knots in the marina locked us down.E ventually the wind let up and we carried on with the trip tearing through the islands under two reefs and a little bit of rolled out jib.Unfortunately that didn’t stop the leech of the old sail — and an old patch from sailing across Finland the season before — from tearing. When we found a place to go in at the tiny little port town of Trilgi, we also found the entire Estonian racing fleet that had been holed up for the last three days waiting for the wind to drop themselves. They literally decided to get at least one race off — across the bay. The little cafe owner looked completely shell shocked.
After a repair we picked up and headed out across the Baltic, stopping in at Faro for a few hours and then making landfall off Nykoping at the standard 2 am and it was still light enough to make our way up the channel even if we didn’t have the moving map.
Great trip.
Nordic Eagle 