We are sailing

Our boat - Mifaeek (never did learn what that means).
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I still can't quite believe that having booked a boat on the internet back in January we turned up at a marina in the lake side resort of Gizyko and found a polish bloke ready to rentus exactly the same boat for a week!

We arrived in Gizycko a few days early and spent some time practicng our Tyskie drinking and laying down some stores for the voyage.  The week sailing was absolutely fantastic, there is a huge amount of water to sail on with very wide channels, very different to the Norfolk Broads.  Our boat, the good ship Mifaeek was supposed to sleep 6 but was spot on for the two of us.  We were able to mooor up in the evenings at the edge of the lake and wade ashore for a camp fire or just swim off the back of the boat.   Absolutely idilic.

Pro.
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The weather was mainly hot with good strong winds (we had to reef most days)  but we had an enormouse storm in the middle of the week.  It started with a big thunder storm one evening and then the next day it was so windy and rainy that we needed to head for shelter in a marina in a small village.  We had a hairy trip across the lake to get there and felt very relieved to be safely moored up somewhere secure!

Great place and fantastic sailing, strongly recommend it!