| Mother's Day drive. | |||
| Time to do a Mother's Day visit to place where only hovercraft can go. (Well, not exatcly but one of the few places when hovecraft can be used instead of a car, so why not!) | |||
| Weather was quite a windy and as day went on windier it got. We started ~11:00AM heading to bay in headwind for couple of kilometers (more than a mile) and turned to other bay heading tailwind. We only did about 5km (3miles) one way and did it fast. There were four people onboard and couple of them had to move to backseat in order to get craft in balance in these wind conditions. | |||
| Going tail wind is not a problem you'll get there eventually one way or the other. When we were coming back couple of hours later it was a different game Now we had head wind blowing over the Gulf of Bothnia all over from Sweden. Waves were about 50cm (2ft) and our route was directly against the wind. I tried to sneak behind islands (both of them) but most of the way back it was very slow transportation. And poor 1,6lSoob was roaring at full throttle. | |||
| But when i turned to sidewind and further on tailwind i had to release back throttle and we were still doing almost 50km/h and accelerating. | |||
| I let people off and prepared for water land transition. Water level is now 20cm (8") below normal and even during normal water there is a step from river to ashore. I built some speed up and as bow was on land i backed up the throttle and managed to do quite nice landing with turning the craft without assistance to ready to go position. | |||
| We did 10km (6miles) and spend less than an hour hovering. I don't bother copying the radiotor remarks from last Operation. | |||