Woke up around 6.00, our last weather report told us 11-14 m/s wind from east so we had to see if it was worth going out this morning. After cooking breakfast we listened to the radio and the seaweather, it told us 12 m/s from east and we decided to be tourists in Kotka untill at least lunch. We went to the city of Kotka and checked out a sports store and a few cafés. The marketplace were filled with a lot of people selling different stuff. One of them turned out to be a saunastand and the owner told us about an upcoming saunafestival and we herd about saunakaraoke, interesting. The old harbour had even more stands and we didnt have the time or energy to go through them all. After a few hours of touristing we had got tired of it and wanted to paddle. We had a late lunch and headed out in a almost strange calm afternoon. We soon discovered that there were thunderclouds and lightnings far away east and that that we were heading towards each other. During aa crossing we decided to take a break on the next island, wise decision, and check the weather out. After 2 minutes on the island we had a monsunrain and over 15 m/s and we were straight under the bad weather. It went past us and we could continue. We found an island one hour later and we stayed the night there. During the night we had one more of these bad weather and Oskar counted to 2 seconds from lghtning to strike, ca 700 meters.
Distance: Kotka- Nuokko, 16 km
Wind: ca 12 m/s E 6.00- 16.00, 0-2 m/s E after 16.00
Waves: 10- 30 cm
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