Today was a public holiday in Norway, so we spent the day at the sea, locally in the Bærum area just outside Oslo. Had some visitors with us, went to the nearest island (where I did a litterwalk the other day) and did some grilling, let the kids run a bit around, and some of us did some swimming too.
"My" bay, where I'm quite often alone in the weekdays, are filled up with other boats during the weekends and holidays, and today was no exception.
Two things happened this day - there was another boat, a relatively small open boat, that eventually managed to yell and get my attention - they had electric starter on their engine, but their battery was flat after driving a mini fridge for some hours. I screwed out my starter battery, threw it into the dhingy and took it over, hoping that they wouldn't need any more tools or cables. They were chuckling a bit, because they had actually called for the rescue service, so we were a bit in a hurry if we were to start the engine before the rescue service would arrive. And, he managed to unscrew the positive pole from his battery, but not the negative, and then the rescue service was coming, so I just had to take my battery back again. Here is the small boat and the rescue service:
At the end of the day my friend was standing by the rudder, he seemed to enjoy it and it seemed like he got the hang of it relatively quickly. But alas ... when arriving to the harbour, there was this area that was very shallow, and even marked so on the map, but he didn't notice. Luckily it wasn't solid rock so we didn't crash - but we got stuck, pretty much stuck, actually I have never before got so stuck with this boat that I couldn't get out by putting the engine in reverse and wriggling with the bow propellor (except for when we accidentally crashed hard with a Swedish island ... well, that's another story). Another boat came by and asked if we needed any help, so he tried pulling me backwards, without success. Eventually I gave him a rope from the top of the mast and asked him to drag me sideways, we were really quite stuck, we were keeling like 30 degrees to the port before we eventually we got loose. Unfortunately the boat was not quite ready for sailing, I sent my wife down to clean the tables before the operation, she did a good job but there were still quite some things that fell over, quite some mess to clean up after this operation.
My plan was to use the stern anchor and tie the bow of the ship to the land, but one of the ladies joining us is a bit handicapped so it would be quite impossible for her to get down from the bow and to land. We did manage to get her in and out of the dhingy though. I'm quite sure she appreciated. We did a bonfire, and we made "stick bread" (curling bread dough around a stick and baked it on the fire)
Unfortunately I didn't take much photos today, I'm using my cellphone and it's not water tight, so I left it behind while swimming.
This got a bit fuzzy, but it's the ice cream sales boat visiting our bay.
I found this in the harbour where we picked up and dropped off passengers, this relatively small boat seems to be perfectly sheltered under this relatively big catamaran!
All photos available in better resolution on IPFS QmYjQktkcmid2SJ9tZbKQehy2MW97ApD2xUnfVqNUtr35Y. License: CC BY-SA 4.0
