Vågøya anchorage with line ashore proved a delightful brief stay. We rowed ashore in the evening and looked for berries, but the search proved fruitless(!).
The land was much lower laying that we often find ourselves surrounded by, with green grass and cows grazing.
We left the anchorage around 8.30am heading further north with word of some poorer weather coming in soon. On route we passed the British 21m yacht we had spotted in Brønnøysund, so far every British yacht we have seen have been expedition charters, we notice up to £17000 a week for some!! The weather was in our favour and we slowed down for 5minutes to do some fishing catching two Pollack and a Cod, enough for us we carried on. Taking the scenic route right to shore and between the mainland and islands we arrived at the KNBF buoy at Indre Vettøysund. When we arrived there were two other boats ashore having a barbecue and after tying up we rowed to the beach to barbeque our fish.
The boats left and we enjoyed the calm weather knowing that it would soon change as overnight was forecasted for wind and rain and much of the next day was to be similar. A yacht came in to the bay and anchored nearby as we headed to bed with the wind piping up.
This morning looking out it had rained heavy through the night and showed no signs of stopping soon, our washing basin on the deck had filled with rain water in the few hours.
An hour after we last looked out we were surprised to see the yacht had moved from one end of the bay to the other and was very close to the rocks, worried they might have dragged anchor we called them on the VHF but with no answer. Rowing over in the dinghy, knocking on the hull they looked surprised to be woken so early but quickly realised they had dragged anchor and were close to danger, so started their engine to move to deeper water.
Their anchor came up thick with weed, sometimes it's just bad luck!
We will stay put until the wind calms down when we can move further north. Now about 70miles north of the Arctic Circle, our next more well known stop is likely to be the Lofoten islands.
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