Saturday 28.6.2014
Finally! It’s time for a week in Märket. It’s exciting and new experience to work in a small, isolated and ascetic but so beautiful island between Finland and Sweden. We are looking for peace and silence as well as opportunity to do something useful by our own hands.
We got a great weather for changing! Five new crew members, five tourists and Buster was packed to Sefyr in Käringsund in Saturday morning. It meant we had 9 Märket newbies in a boat.
There is lots of new to see and learn for first-timers! “Any questions?” No, but I bet they will follow later… Tour and safety walk was interesting and very important.
First day is for new friends, settle up and some small tasks. And for great food, of course.
Sunday 29.6.2014
Sunday was a day for dirty jobs as well as clean tasks. Rainy weather kept us mostly indoors. Inari painted shop windows while Jari and Pera made a place for emergency exit instructions. Then Minna and Pera made some room for new organic waste. Meanwhile some magic happened in kitchen and bedrooms by Outi and Helena – spider-webs are gone. Jari and Pera gave a finishing touch for sauna and Minna studied some rope works (results will be introduced later this week).
Monday 30.6.2014
Foggy and misty weather caused unreal feeling. Like the islet was floating alone in the universe… We even had to check the compass directions.
But no worries, we had work to do. Repairing of the wall continued.
Water was quite calm, so we had to made waves by ourselves.
Tuesday 1.7.2014
This was the most beautiful day of the week so far. It also meant that we had lots of visitors at islet. We started preparations right after breakfast.
First visitor was Meritaito work boat – they brought us some equipment, serviced a lantern and took away a waste oil barrel. Then came Mats and Sefyr with 9 guests. They had barely left when s/y Mihanna arrived with 3 sailors. M/s Tavi was already waiting with 16 divers.
Ps. To read about experiences of today’s visitors, check
lauraletsgo.blogspot.fi
www.city.fi/vaimomatskuu
www.city.fi/urbaaniviidakkoseikkailijatar
Wednesday 2.7.2014
Messages from the mainland told about rainy weather, but we had a beautiful sunshine with some wind. Working with the wall continued as well as window project.
Great weather forced us to relax, too.
Minna’s rope project:
Thursday 3.7.2014
Today weather changed from sun to rain while wind blows around 10 m/s from south west. Teddies and Tolvanas are also interested in about forecasts.
Sailboat passed us in a nice tail wind, but only a bit later a motor boat drove to our harbor.
In the afternoon we finally hit to the magazine.
When days are full of work, kitchen plays an important role!
Friday 4.7.2014
The last whole day of our week was full of sunshine! Some last tasks and few visitors helped us to keep our feet on the ground.
We also would like to reveal our awards of the week:
We all will miss this week… Thank you Märket, we will see again!