June 5th Bodø - Nordskot
June 4th is the first day with midnight sun in Bodø and skies was clear so I decided to sail to Nordskot where I had a fabulous sunset in late July last year.
On the way up I had a nice upwind sail. From the weatehrforcast I had calculated that the sail would be easy and on the same tack the entire way. In reality wind direction changes quite much and within half an hour I sailed the same course on both port and starboard tack and back to port tack.
A bit before I came to the dug channel (very unusual for that to be necessary in Norway) the wind died. So I had to start the engine earlier than the narrowness of the du channel had forced me to anyway.
Nordskot, or more exact the old trading post at Grøtøya just outside Nordskot, used to be the last stop on the mainland before the fishermen going to Lofoten crossed the open Vestfjorden (when the weather was not ideal).
The old trading post was owned and run by the same family (Schøning, originally Hartvigsen) between 1690 and 1923 the main islet and building was owned by the Schøning family until 2013.
But I came for the midnight sun.
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