Short trip on Björköfjärden

Summer heat with hardly any wind. One can count thou that in the afternoon there will be sjöbris for sure.

And certainly there will be wind in Björköfjärden.

I took our guests for a short ride with Meritaten.

Weather was perfect to demonstrate how sailing looks like - without scaring them with dramatic conditions or heavy sail flogging.

First part, in Vätösund, was on engine, to get out of wind shade. Once in more open waters steady SE wind reached us so we could put up all the canvas.

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There was no destination, we just sailed around and enjoyed fresh wind on this otherwise very hot day.

Coming back the same way, now in half-wind, Meritaten showed how agile and quick she is on this course.

Back in the shade of Vätö I dropped sails and good-old Yanmar-san took us back to the harbour.

Crew disembarked and I was left alone to clean up things before leaving the deck.

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