24 miles today forecast F4/5 turned out to be F7 near gale on the nose all the way. We were just able to sail, I can't remember a time when we had more water over the decks. Bornholm is Ölands answer to Brighton and we spent the afternoon at a rock concert in the local hotel. Bed time now and it's still blowing like crazy.

Today's sailing problem, a blocked loo. A poor little fish had got sucked up into the valves and had stopped it working. Why are toilets, especially blocked ones a mans problem?

18 hours and 12 minutes of sunshine today. We sailed just 17 NM over to Öland, a lovely day, light till almost 23.00. We had our meal in the cockpit in flat calm conditions as the wind had died away to nothing, the occasional rumble of the locals cruising the big V8 American muscle cars around the town, as is the tradition in almost all of Sweden was the only sounds to be heard. Last time we were here there was a festival on and the place was crazy but this tim...