We needed to head back to Akbuk for a few weeks to catch up with friends, do some work on both 'Kejstral' and the house and much to our surprise, foster a kitten!! That we will come to in a moment. Our journey took around 4 hours, which was a good sailing experience. With 13 knots of wind filling our sails, our course north easterly should be pretty straightforward. However, the wind was coming straight over the bow, therefore, plenty of tacking was required. In addition, around this coastline are fish farms, about 20 of them. These are massive circles 40 to 50 meters in diameter, of net with a rubber edge, built to contain those growing little fish. Sometimes ten circles link together forming a pattern. An ariel view would look a little like two rows of massive tyres lying on the sea. Alongside these huge circles is a floating cabin for the technical bits and just to make it harder to travel past ....... there are small medium and large fishing boats moving between each set of fish farms!! So what a challenge, tacking around those like an obstacle course with the wind gathering spread, making our little arms ache from pulling and manoeuvring sails. It's no wonder we are exhausted by the time we reach Akbuk harbour. Our mooring in the harbour is not as easy or straight forward as we would like. However, we realise that as a fishing harbour, it was not designed to have yacht's and other pleasure boats. We are very grateful to be there as it is a 12 minute walk from our home. The unfortunate thing is that it is always a little daunting coming in, especially for the first time in our new boat! In our previous motor boat, it was a challenge, this boat is twice the size and six times more stressful!! Our friends were standing on the harbour side, with the harbour security guy and two neighbouring boat owners. What could go wrong !! Actually, to our surprise, the space was somewhat tight but, we pulled in, Kevin at the helm reversing stern to. I, fending off the neighbouring boats with my achy arms and pathetic strength, and we were in. After an hour or so of setting up a lazy line ( anchor dropped and set permanently into the sea bed, with rope attached from anchor to shore) We can now just grab this rope as we arrive in with the boat, and immediately we are then stable and securely fixed. Successful journeys end.
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