Helsinki Tallin Race is over

In the picture part of the brave crew, from left to the right: Stidi the strategist, Jaska the steerman and erkki the deck-officer.





The race started at 18.00. We had a quite good start. The weather was perfect. Wind was blowing from E / SE. We reached the highest speed of 9,1 knots and our avearge speed was 6,427 knots. Tallin was reaached in 6 hours 30 minutes and 2 seconds (arriving the finish line 00.30.02). We were the "69ers" being the 69th/194 fastest participants by the average speed. In our own class we reached the 18th place.

On Saturday there was of course the traditional evening party in Pirita harbour.

Sunday the 23rd we took the ropes off at 9.10 and reached the home-port at 16.10Fantastic experience again! Big thanks for the crew for the great time. -Petri

Start at 18.00 to Helsinki-Tallinn race

The start will be in front of Helsinki exactly 18.00 Finnish time.

There will be totally seven members in the crew including the Skipper. Jaakko, Stidi, Erkki, Petri, Ville, Riku and Pekka.

Wind forecast for the start is 6 m/s E. The total mileage of the race is approx 48 nautical miles. The race should be over by the morning and on the saturday evening there will be small party in Tallinn.

Emsalö Runt

Emsalö Runt can be considered as a "recovery test sail after summer" for the crew. The race was sailed in the beautiful day the barometer showed 1010 hPa and the wind was blowing between 6-10 m/s (as forecasted).

Sun was shining. All the crew was well motivated and as always we did some typical mistakes, which we should prevent in the Helsinki-Tallin race that is the climax of the sailing year. For example for the long direct back winds it is better to take Spinnaker than Gennaker but on the other hand... if there is open not direct backwind ...gennaker is more effective, we can not use them both.

Lets see what the forecast will be for the Grande Race and decide in the last minute.

Results? not published yet, but will be in the net latest tomorrow.

Long time silence in this blog is over...

Yesterday, the 11th of August the boat was released from the boatyard. The engine service is finally over...

Because of the overheating in the southern Baltics the malfunction list was massive:

The ventiles are changed, the Pistons and piston rings are changed. The exhaustion fumes pipe is changed (was burned). Water temperature-meter and oil-pressure meter are added.

But basically the Volvo engine must be good, beacause even with these failiures we managed to drive over 18 hours with the engine in our Baltic Tour.

Next Saturday it will be early morning start to go ahead Emsalö, to participate Emsalö-Runt, 100 years jubileum race.

At the moment the weather forecast is promising: NW-wind 7-9 m/s