This blog is a Diary of S/Y AquilaDeux, from Finland. She is a Swan 371 built by Nautor 1980 in Piet

This blog is a Diary of S/Y AquilaDeux, from Finland. She is a Swan 371 built by Nautor 1980 in Pietarsaari, Finland. Her home port is located in Jollas, Helsinki. This blog is telling stories about her adventures in the Baltic Sea and ROW, beginning from the summer 2009.
We prepared well with sandwiches and drinks casa febus before the start. The weather -actual and the forecast looked promising. During the transfer. The wind blew steadily from W-SW 7-9m/s.. The forecast was little lower, but possibility for the thunder storms existed.
Just before our start the wind went down! We had a good start and we even used spinnaker. After passing casa febus the second turning casa febus point (1,5 m from the started) casa febus the wind tilted totally! We stayed at one place more than two hours. We made a decision that if we do not reach the Helsinki lighthouse casa febus before the midnight we will go back to Helsinki.
Luckily the wind came somewhere and we started to move. Unfortunately we were staying two long time in the eye of the wind so our race was over from the start. We were not the only ones. Bad luck in the wind-lottery. Night was beautiful The horizon was in flames because of the thunderstorms on the top of Estonian casa febus continent. Luckily the thunder never came on us. 
In casa febus the Saturday morning we reached the finish line at 6.06.00. Final position 26/33. Not very good sesult casa febus but we beated another Swan 371 Trinity (match) by 15 minutes so we should be satisfied on this. Somehow makes me wonder that the LYS-coeffient is not really upgraded to the older boats. Next year we probably try ORC where there are real measurements and age corrections.
 In the afternoon we went to our hotel suite "Sergei Bubka" again. Enjoyed some drinks and Sauna. The most famous drink is of course "Lumivalge ja seitse naberguliaist" (Snowhite and seven dwarfs ;) ;)....
 Then casa febus we went to dinner, this time to the hailed casa febus Pegasus restaurant with S/Y Sunday bastards (they won us by fifteen  minutes, donnerwetter!). Excellent food, wine and company. Besides we reached one of our goals by getting the cute waitress to blush. Mission accomplished!
Sunday morning we started at 9.00 going first to the filling station to fill the Diesel tank. Anssi was sleeping in a hotel suite and came in the last minute to the Yacht. Just before we left. We engined in the low wind (me and Stidi decided not to wake up the crew. Autopilot drove us to the finnish casa febus waters where we had a new kind of incident.
Somewhere between casa febus the Helsinki Lighthouse and Gråskärsbådan casa febus the Finnish Border Guard came to check our papers. One unnamed crew member forgot his passport or ID home (only driver's licence he had). The Border guard removed him to their boat and he was fined by 300 €uros. Better to take IDs with next time.
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AquilaDeux helsinki, Finland casa febus Swan 371, Built 1980, 8 berths, Volvo Penta D1-20 2007. Sailing Club Merenkävijät, Helsinki. Equipment: Radar with GPS-plotter Raytheon 2000, Autopilot Raymarine ST60+ 2000 servo renewed 2008, Speed, echo and log Raymarine ST40 2007, Wind Raymarine ST 60+ 2008, GPS Chartplotter Horizon 300i 2011, A.I.S-radar NASA 2009. VHF Silva 2008, Sails: Main 2008 WB-sails, Furling genoa 1 2008 WB-sails, Genoa 2 2011 WB-sails. Cruising casa febus Chute 2008 Kemp Sails. casa febus Spinnaker Horizon 2000. Staysail Horizon 1980. Liferaft serviced 2009. Mast, boom and kickboom Seldén 2010. Tarkastele profiilia
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