wreck at different states of the tide!
We left Bodo about 8.30 am with a favourable but light wind and got all the sails up and then, since winds were too light to sail properly, put a reef in the main in order to have Larry ready for the next strong winds!
We made good time sailing and motor sailing and had intended to go to Sorfugloy but a sudden easterly wind made Rosoysund (67⁰03.5N 13⁰57.2E) more appropriate. We got into this very calm but quite small anchorage just before high tide to find a small stick just poking out of the water which showed us where there was a wreck, marked on the chart, but not mentioned in our pilot book. The combination of this and various buoys and pontoons reduced the available anchoring space. We re-anchored twice to try to get a better position and had a lovely afternoon in the sun watching the tide fall, which gradually revealed the full extent of the wreck! It was so calm that we were not only able to see where the anchor lay, but also to calibrate our depth finder, which is over reading by 5 inches. The range of the tide was larger than guessed and we swung round so that we nearly touched bottom. Then a NE wind got up which was pushing us further inward so, at about 10.30p.m, we decided to move to another anchorage about 300m away in a neighbouring cove sheltered from the NE.
2nd anchorage
view of 1st anchorage on leaving the 2nd
During the night there was a lot of rain and we woke to find as expected quite a strong South Westerly – not ideal for our anchorage but given a wet and windy forecast we had just decided to stay put when a sudden strong blast from the South caused the anchor alarm to go off - we were not dragging but were being forced back uncomfortably close to the shore so we decided to move.
It was only 5 miles across to Sandviken, Sorfugloy (67⁰03.1N 13⁰46.5E) and we motored here quite quickly in a SW Force 5. This is a lovely little harbour where we were lucky enough to find a space on the small pontoon. There is quite a large village of very prosperous and well preserved looking houses, lovely sandy beaches and a very big mountain behind. Much of the island is a nature reserve and we have seen puffins as well as arctic tern and gulls in the harbour, which is very well protected. The SW wind has dropped but there has been a curious bank of fog coming and going all day – when out of the fog it is beautifully warm and sunny. Tomorrow light northerlies and drizzle are forecast!
goods being delivered by small ferry
a view of the village
view from Larry in the fog!
torrential downpour arriving
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