Tuesday 21st June
We knew the amazingly hot and sunny weather could not last and it hasn’t! Judged by the standards of last year this has been a rather more typical North Norwegian summer day – in other words it has been rather colder and overcast with wind and rain increasing reaching probably 5/6 mid-afternoon.
We re-stocked at the supermarket first thing and also filled up with water from a tap with a good strong pressure which solved another problem we have had, which was that since the installation of the new accumulator the taps had been stuttering and spluttering with no proper flow of water due to seemingly endless air locks. We now have beautiful clear arctic water running smoothly from all taps including the hot ones.
At this point it was merely overcast with occasional light drizzle but we were soon clawing our way north east through rather more unpleasant conditions so we decided not to go as far as originally intended . Even so it was 4 pm before we found a place to stop. We are now snugged down, about 10 miles north of Tromso, in Finnkroken, Reinoy SW (69⁰49’.6N 19⁰25’.5E) - in the middle of a little group of 3 bird reserve islands with the fire on, tending the various leaks which were the inevitable result of so much hot dry weather on the decks, and crossing our fingers that after 3 attempts the anchor has now set!!.
first 3 picures were taken en route and final two in our anchorage
Tomorrow is forecast to be sunny with less wind and within a couple of days the wind is expected to go round to the SE – needless to say just when we will probably be thinking of going South.
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