May 14th - 16th Knarrlagsund - Hellandsjøen - Kongensvoll
The spring tour continued with a downwind leg to Hellandsjøen.
The light wind from the rear starboard quarter gave ample time to hoist and use the genakker. Even though I had the sail mounted backwards and needed help from S/Y Elanthea to get it to fly when doing a really board reach in the end - I still kept up with the fleet.
Well most of it.
The last part into Hellandsjøen is twisty and quite narrow som I replaced the genakker with the jib as its easier to handle. But still most boats sailed almost to the dock.
At Hellabndsjøen the local pub found its ols barbecue barrel and let us us that and provided wine and bear for this so inclined.
And as a last treat we got magic light at the end of the day/early night.
Next leg was back up Trondheimsleia to Kongensvoll. Today this meant tacking upwind. Most boats waited until they where out of the narrow parts and out in Trondheimsleia to hoist their sails, but the other Hanse S/Y Jan Himp and me sailed out made much easier with our selftackers.
Even with one reef in the main I managed to keep up with some of the boats, but the wind coming from over the terrain on land was fluky at times so for several of the boats keeping around the same speed as me luck was probably more important than skills in deciding who came first the the dock.
You don't get the same easy view of the sunset form Kongensvoll but a short walk along the road offered prima vistas. It was raining to and from so I doubt that I would have taken the walk if it hadn't been for us having a exercising campaign at work - but that's often what's needed and this evening the payback was real and direct.
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