Sandspollen is a place I visit often if I'm going to or from Oslo - quite often just to sleep, sometimes we go bathing, sometimes we row in land there. By sail boat it's a short day journey from Oslo - like, leave from Oslo just after work and one can arrive there in the evening. It's a big bay with space for quite many boats by anchor. Yesterday evening it was noisy everywhere, this early morning it was so quiet. I counted 101 boats this morning, excluding the dhingies, the local boats in the marina and the boats anchored up at the outside of the bay itself.
Those are my dhingies, visited by a sea gull
This is the exit from the bay. So I'm one of the outermost boats apparently. Yesterday there was a relatively small motorboat behind me, but it was just doing a day trip. Anchoring up throughout the night seems to be more normal for sailing boats than motorboats. The boats in the background is tied up to land, many of them longside, that's quite normal in this area as there aren't much tides.
Taking pictures against the sun can be quite challenging, in particularly when you can't see anything on the screen due to the sunlight. I tried shading a bit with my hand, seems like I succeeded (too well) with that.
Looking at the photos now, I'm disappointed that I forgot to remove my fingers
Not easy to see on this photo, but one of my nearest neighbours is a triple - three sailing boats lying by the same anchor. When I anchored up, the three nearest neighbours was around 25-30 metres away from me, I had around 40 metres of anchor chain in the water and my boat is like 14 metres long. How safe it is to anchor up so tight is an interesting subject ... maybe something for a separate blog post.
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