LOST IN HEL
Following our session in Sopot we went driving looking for an evening session about 20 minutes from Sopot, but as sometimes happens, we got ourselves lost on some dirt roads once again. We did come across many yellow canola fields, some fisherman enjoying the evening catch, families out for an evening walk in the forest giving us weird looks – and a couple potential spots, which unfortunately at that moment were not windy enough to sail. We slept in a small guesthouse in Chalupy for 80 Zloty for a room and made our way to the end of the Hel peninsula the following morning. Without much wind in the morning, we walked around the Museum of Costal Defence, learning about the military significance of Hel and it’s importance in the Second World War. The wind wasn’t strong enough on the Baltic side of the peninsula, so we drove to the Puck Bay side for some early afternoon sailing, which once again seemed to have the strongest wind. We followed the coast further south to catch the last puffs of the NE flow before the wind was forecast to totally shut off. Ending up in Gdansk, near a yacht club and sailing spot called Stogi, we walked out onto the beach to sail what looked like would be our last session – and just as we rigged the wind shifted, and died.