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	<description>...thoughts and events from my everyday life</description>
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		<title>Tammisaari</title>
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We&#8217;re having coffee in Cafe Gamla Stan in the wooden &#8216;old town&#8217; part of Tammisaari. Again a pretty cafe in the garden of an old wooden house.
The wind today was moderate and Kittiwake went very well. The weather was mostly fine &#8211; just some light drizzle as we motored in to the harbour at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Still stuck in Hanko</title>
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Last night the winds got stronger and stronger, and the yachts in the harbour tossed and squirmed, jerking at their mooring ropes and slamming into their neighbours&#8217; fenders. As the wind whistled and howled in their rigging, it drove the heavy rain almost sideways.
In Kittiwake, I was kept awake most of the night, listening to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.greygriffin.net/?p=206</link>
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		<title>Stuck in Hanko</title>
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This morning the weather forecast warned of possible strong winds, and we decided to be cautious and stay in the safety of Hanko harbour. Just as well, as a serious storm brewed up, and at times it was so windy it was difficult to walk straight on the harbour walls (this was before the beer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.greygriffin.net/?p=207</link>
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		<title>Approaching Hanko</title>
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The western approach to Hanko is very pretty, weaving through a scatter of tiny islands guided by these red and green lateral marks (and the map in the GPS, of course). But just after this photo was taken the wind dropped almost to nothing, and now we&#8217;re motoring the last part, the whole boat vibrating [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.greygriffin.net/?p=208</link>
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		<title>Farmors Cafe again</title>
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This morning we left Vänö early, and as we set out for Hanko Eve suggested a side trip to Högsåra to visit Farmors Cafe again, as we did with Anna and Raiku before. This time we went to Högsåra village guest harbour, which was closer than the Kejsarhamnen harbour we stayed in before. Farmors Cafe [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.greygriffin.net/?p=209</link>
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		<title>Vänö</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Björkö we did the long sail to Vänö, which went very smoothly &#8211; just reaching along at 5-6 knots, turning the page of the chart book as we zoomed eastward.
But Vänö was a big disappointment. We arrived just as the one shop closed, and moored to the jetty with a stern buoy that was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.greygriffin.net/?p=210</link>
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		<title>Björkö</title>
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From Jurmo we sailed on to Björkö (Birch Island), a high wooded island with a large freshwater lake. Björkö&#8217;s yacht harbour is just a sheltered inlet where you cast an anchor from the stern and tie the bow to rings in the rock. Very pretty and quiet, except that it was full of big Swedish [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.greygriffin.net/?p=211</link>
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		<title>Jurmo</title>
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Yesterday we sailed from Utö to Jurmo, a trip of about two and a half hours. Jurmo is a very bleak island, again part of the Salpausselkä ice age moraine ridge. We went for a walk around it this morning, but the whole island was like walking on a rocky beach &#8211; very hard going.
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		<link>http://www.greygriffin.net/?p=212</link>
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		<title>Utö lighthouse</title>
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Here&#8217;s a nice photo of the lighthouse here at Utö. It&#8217;s not your usual graceful tapering cylinder, but still has a certain rugged charm.
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		<link>http://www.greygriffin.net/?p=213</link>
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		<title>Utö</title>
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The weather forecasts were showing that the next couple of days would have near gale-force winds, and so wherever we went, we would be stuck there for a couple of days. We checked all the nearby harbours, and plumped for Utö, as it had a shop, a café and an interesting-looking lighthouse.
Utö , which means [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.greygriffin.net/?p=214</link>
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