SW wind. That's handy and also a little stronger than yesterday. We had a broad reach up the side of Samsø and after a while it seemed the wind would hold, so we carried on up the coast (the alternative bring to turn the other way and stop at Ebeltoft).
The cruising chute had an outing and then got put away in favour of goose-winged genoa. After a while it grew a little cloudy ahead, could not see the headland, looked like rain, heard some thunder, wind went light and funny so took down the genoa, heard rain on the water not far away.
All these things suggest it would be a good idea to take down the mainsail while it's easy, but we did not. Then strong wind and hail hit us hard and the boat heeled a long way even with the mainsheet completely eased and the sail flogging. Pam eventually got the sail down and secured. We motored slowly towards Grenaa but with 30+ knots of wind behind we went quite quickly (in the initial gusts the wind meter had showed more than 45 knots). No chance of entering the harbour and box berth in this wind, so we turned round and motored into the wind to hold station whilst the storm went past. Eventually it seemed we were heading back into the bad stuff! So we turned round and headed for the harbour, thankfully not pursued by the storm.
The cruising chute had an outing and then got put away in favour of goose-winged genoa. After a while it grew a little cloudy ahead, could not see the headland, looked like rain, heard some thunder, wind went light and funny so took down the genoa, heard rain on the water not far away.
All these things suggest it would be a good idea to take down the mainsail while it's easy, but we did not. Then strong wind and hail hit us hard and the boat heeled a long way even with the mainsheet completely eased and the sail flogging. Pam eventually got the sail down and secured. We motored slowly towards Grenaa but with 30+ knots of wind behind we went quite quickly (in the initial gusts the wind meter had showed more than 45 knots). No chance of entering the harbour and box berth in this wind, so we turned round and motored into the wind to hold station whilst the storm went past. Eventually it seemed we were heading back into the bad stuff! So we turned round and headed for the harbour, thankfully not pursued by the storm.
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| Quiet evening after the thunder had passed |
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