The longest leg of the season

I had a mission. The vessel had to be moved from our home marina to the winterization site. This was a challenge. This was in towards the end of the August. The approaching fall means frequent and heavy winds. Finding a suitable slot is not easy. I checked weather forecast from all the available sources, frequently. To get all the facts. With all the available data I made decision: This is the weekend. I ordered my crew to skip their daily hunting and gathering routine on Friday. They did. We woke up before sunrise. Execute! The travel commenced - the first and the longest leg of our Oulu-Kokkola journey started.  

The night before we spent in Varjakka. This is 5.30 am.

We headed towards west. The sun rose and started to catch us from east.

Hailuoto ferry bathed in the morning sun.

This beacon serves seagoing on Hailuoto coast route.

We leave Marjaniemi behind us - we are at sea!

After 12 hours our destination is visible in the horizon.

Approaching Maakalla.

Moored. Time to wake up for me!

I love new islands.

I am full of energy after all the sleep. 

Night falls on Maakalla.

Kesäloma 2012 Destinations - Varjakansaari

This post is the first part of my new production: our summer vacation destinations. 

The first destination was very familiar for me, Varjakansaari, that I had visited with my crew quite many times already. Our journey started quite late in the evening and it was cloudy. My crew was tired on running around to prepare the vessel for travel and did not have enough energy to entertain me.

 

So in the morning, with all the energy I had in reserve, I immediately climbed up to check the environment. It was sunny and there was some interesting activity: There is a little manual ferry for transport between Varjakka island and Varjakka marina.   

As said it was nice and sunny and my crew did, one at the time, something I was appalled: They went to the water and moved around in it! It is called swimming - I was horrified that only their heads were visible! I can tell you that this was frequent action during the journey and I had to got used to it. 

In this picture the situation is luckily over, only the captains swimming pants left drying on the railing are disturbing my view and reminding about this incident.

My crew asked me to add this link, information about this destination in Finnish: http://venenetti.fi/satamat/perameri/kropsu-polla/1910-varjakansaari/varjakansaari