Saturday, 2 August 2014

Anchors, Forts and Cathedrals

So we're finally underway motoring of course. We thread our way through a narrows into the city Harbour proper just to have a look. We couldn't go all the way in because it was just chalkafull of boats Big ones little ones, regular ones. Old ones,new ones,Sailboats, motor boats, Steamboats, wood boats, aluminium ones. Steel one and plastic one. After all it was a boat festival. We drooled a little bit and then left heading North.
After motoring for 5 hours and oohing and awwwing over the ever changing scenery of one mountain after another we finally came to our destination. Hellenhamn. Named of course after Dorothy. My trusty crew made ready the anchor and upon my command dropped it in the precise spot where it would hold. Man I'm good. We settled down to happy hour woke the other 1/3 of the crew up . We had a very nice meal then toodled off to bed.
0800 can't see a thing. Then I took the cover off my head and still couldn't see anything! No I didn't go blind Just Heavy fog. How heavy you might ask and even if you didn't I'm going to tell you anyway. It was so heavy that Kalinka 1 was 6 inches down on her lines, It was so heavy I had to cut my way through it with a razor knife. It was so heavy that we cut chunks off and had them for breakfast with our tea or in Diannes case coffee. It was so heavy that the seagulls were walking on it and 747's could land on it! We raised the anchor by the brail method turned on the gps,ais rds dis sos and the radar and got underway. the second obstacle to our journey was no wind bah!! Motor boat ride again. turned on the sss pointed the boat in the right direction and off we went across another fjord and through another dozen islands and by another 113 florecent pink or orange mooring bouys used for fishing gear markers and then we arrived in Bud.
Now Bud pronounced Boood not Bud as in bud the spud from PEI is a very nice small town that at one time was a central hub for coastal trade and controlled the route between Trondheim and points South. So of course it was thought to be very important by the Germans. Who built a massive underground Fort inside the main town hill. And put a couple of really really big guns on the top. then they knocked down a bunch of the houses in the neighborhood. Now the place is a museum and tourist attraction. We spent the night here and then early the next morning.
0500!! I'm daft what the heck(being polite here) am I doing getting up at this time of the day? We're underway through more islands narrow intricate passages in and out of rock and fishing gear until we come to Kristiansund not Kristiansand Sund is Sound not the noise but a passage between land forms and Sand is well sand for lack of a better term. We eventually arrived at our destination at 1040. got a spot on the main pontoon. Anne Gre followed us in and also got  spot.










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