Time to get your drybags and go for it!

The weather forecast was okay this day but windy from south-west up to 9m/s. So enough wind for some funny moments on the open water :D. Luckyly for us – on the way back we had the wind in our back so..less work for us!

Navigation on sea:

In one word…”different”. For me personally it feels a bit like winternavigation. Why? you don’t have that much markable points like swamps, big forests, big maountains etc. A lot of things are covered by water/snow. Like smal rocks under the surface that can slice your boat like a can of tuna. In addition you have stream/tide. In our area that is not that necessary cause the tide is quite low and you don#t have big underwaterstreams that will pull your boat on the open sea.

Important things for seanavigation:

1.) Weather…never go out on the sea/ore mountains without checking the weatherforecast twice. Heavy weather can make the sea rough even if it is 2-3 days after the storm offshore. Big waves are a problem specially when you are in a group. The can capsize you, but the bigger problem for the group is..you can get lost and loose your group. So maybe you would’t find someone when he capsize cause the waves are to high.

2.) look for flat areas ore hidden rocks. Not every rock is marked on the card. When you are to close to islands it can happen that the waves push you against the island ore you can hit rocks under the surface. And you will not see them in rough sea, but they will see you. And the don’t want to move cause they are there for thousands of years maybe.

3.) Shapes, alway try to look for Islands and check their shape with your map.

4.) In open water, try to fix a point far away in your direction. It can be an Island, an Lighthouse ore whatever…It will help you to navigate, otherwise you will go in a zig zag course ore you will loose your bearing. On the open water you need to trust your compass, GPS, sonar etc… and your card, the alternative to that is : DEATH

Sea and Kajaks:

Seakajaks are long, strong and much more stable than rafting kajaks. You have lots of space in the back and the front for luggage and its easy to handle them. On rough sea it becomes interesting with these boats :D. When you have the wind against you you need to paddle hard but with wind from behind its less work..isn’t it? with big waves from behind you always have a big risk to capsize. Why? cause the wind is trying to spin your boat into the wind…same you have with sailing boats. So you need to work against this spin. In addition with waves it can easy happen that one wave moves you forward and make you really fast. In the same time it starts to spin you. When you do something against it, you have a high chance to capsize with the next wave cause this wave hits you from the side….