Our 2016 cruise was from Amsterdam to Oxelösund. We took two months over the cruise to give us time to explore on the way rather than it just being a passage. We headed through the Markermeer and Ijsselmeer to Lemmer and then into the standing mast route. The original plan had been to go right through to Groningen, but we got delayed waiting for a bridge at Leeuwarden for a few days, so in the end locked out of the Lauwersmeer and did a passage straight from Lauwersoog to Brunsbuttel to enter the Kiel Canal.
From Kiel we headed up to the Oresund and cruised the area around Copenhagen for a couple of weeks. Then along the southern Swedish coast to Ystad to join the CA 2016 Baltic Rally. The CA Rally ended at Kalmar where we joined Airborne for a TSC Rally heading north as far as Nykoping. We then headed back down to Oxelosund to leave the boat for the winter.
The blog is available from the latest news link above or click on the markers in the map above, but to read the 2016 blog in date order, follow the links below:
- Ready to rock
- Meandering to Muiden
- Embracing Enkhuizen
- Lasooing Lemmer
- Loitering in Leeuwarden
- Ogling an Orrery
- Languishing in the Lauwersmeer
- Lurking in Lauwersoog
- Bimbling to Brunsbuttel
- Rambling to Rendsburg
- Breaking into the Baltic
- Kindling Olympians in Kiel
- Gunboat diplomacy
- Gallivanting to Gedser
- Klomping to Klintholm
- Relaxing to Rodvig
- Cavorting to Copenhagen
- Venerating the Vikings
- Hunting for Hamlet in Helsingor
- Hauling across to Humlebaek
- Cavorting back to Copenhagen
- Languishing in Langelinie
- Hopping up to Helsingborg
- Venturing to Ven
- Faltering across to Flakfortet
- Inching across to Ishoy
- Floating across to Falsterbo
- Yachting to Ystad
- Surging to Simrishamn
- Kicking off to Karlskrona
- Unique Utklippan
- Knuckling down to Kristianopel
- Kinesthetic sail to Kalmar
- Bimbling to Borgholm
- Following to Figeholm
- Anchoring in Alo
- Bedazzling Boko
- Haunting Harstena
- Absorbing Arkosund
- Navigating to Nykoping
- Obliging Oxelosund
- Over to Oxelosunds Batvarv