LEBA TO WLADYSLOWO (34 miles)
Day 17 Wednesday, 5th June 2019
Set off at 8 am , waved off by our next-door neighbours. They were very friendly!
This is a photo of the cutter-suction dredger outside the harbour.
We seem to be the only yacht in the Baltic until this small strange Polish yacht, another single-hander, came past with a bike on the deck.
We sailed close-hauled for 3 hours, with the wind in the SE from 8.30 to 11.30 am and then the wind, now from the E, headed us, so we had to put the engine on. We then had to put a reef in the main at 1 pm as the wind wound up and then the wind dropped so the skipper took it out again.
Phoned the harbour -master is Wladyswowo to reserve us a place as it’s Poland’s largest fishing port, landing 25 – 35,000 tons of fish annually but there are only 12 berths for yachts.
Sand dunes and a lighthouse on the way to Wladyswowo.
The headland before turning south is Poland’s northernmost extremity.
Arrived at 3 pm to find a the port very busy with fishing boats coming and going to land their catch.
We didn’t walk into town – about a km away – but bought icecreams, like Magnums, in a small shop which also had bread rolls for our sandwiches tomorrow. The tower, which we mistook for a church, looks very Soviet era.
We had showers and went to the only restaurant on the fish quay – very popular with the Germans we met in Leba. The couple on a beautiful wooden yacht (which reminds us of Meriva) have a 7 month baby girl, called Maria, on board. The Germans (on 3 boats) are all going to Klaipedia, the only port in Lithuania. But we’re going to Gdansk and then Kaliningrad!
Lady Hamilton 2019 