4.7. Hammerhavnen-Utklippan. A nice warm day but no wind. The engine started causing trouble, the revs suddenly dropped a few times and finally I stopped the engine and changed the secondary fuel filter which seemed to have a lot of silt in it. That didn’t help much so I added the fuel additive which seemed to help after a while. I also noticed that the sea water pump leaked a little. Utklippan was a beautiful little double island with a small channel in between. Yuou had to take the dinghy to the other side where they had a small café, a nice lighthouse and a wood burning sauna which we immediately reserved. Later we had a barbeque and went to the sauna. The sauna was nice but there wasn’t any good shore to go swimming. Before the nightfall the little harbor was crowded and we had two more boats with us side by side, one German and one Finnish.
5.7. Utklippan-Kalmar. What a perfect sailing day! After 5 miles we hoisted the genaker and sailed with the light southwesterly wind almost all day. In the end we got a nice sea breeze from the west and we took down the genaker and hoisted the main and the jib for the rest of the leg. In the morning the engine was a little sluggish to start and the same thing happened when I started the engine for the approach to the marina. At least the other primary filter and water separator seemed to have some loose particles inside but no water. The water pump can wait awhile and we probably have a replacement kit to change the seals if necessary onboard. The day was sunny and the temperature reached +22 Celsius.
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