We were planning to make a three day 300 miles crossing to Klaipeda in Lithuania and set off in a fresh SW breeze. The wind increased during the afternoon and for whatever reason neither of us could get any decent sleep during our off-watch. Around midnight when I was on watch hte seastate became so choppy and ci�nfused that I made a decision to change course. At this point we were a couple of miles NW of Bornholm, the Danish island in the southern Baltic, nad instead of our previous course of 78 degrees, I jibed and continued at 45 degrees towards the SE point of the Blekinge Archipelago.

From there we would have more options. Either continue to Klaipeda at 92 degrees or go to the eastern coast of Gotland at approximately 45 deg or go up in the Kalmar strait.

We arrived at the most SE part of Karlskrona sk�rg�rd in the afternoon and moored in shelter from the sea on the northern side of the tiny island named Flaksk�r. The Swedish Cruising Association, SXK, has a mooring bouy here free to use for it's members. A night of deep dreamless sleep left us in fine shape in the morning and we went on in a light SW breeze under full sails this time towards Klaipeda, 180 miles to the east.