Holtenau to Brunsbüttel …. After an evening in Laboe and a nice pizza at the Italian restaurant in the marina, we decided to head off again early. The plan was to do the Kiel Canal in one day. Given that it is 55 miles end to end, this is a …
Who needs two sails when one will do! Today we did 67.6 miles from Vejro to Laboe (just near Kiel) under jib only and averaged 6.5 knots. This included a 50 minute start to the passage where we had to head butt the waves again at about 4 knots OG …
Who needs bouncy castles? All you need is a nice force 5 bang on the nose and a nice shallow Danish sea and you can bounce up and down perpetually for hours …. That is what we got today. We set off just after 8.30am, but it was still blowing …
At last – we escaped …. Ever since Ric arrived on July 1st, the wind blew and blew. Every day was forecast at well over 20 knots and most were substantially more than that. Occasionally people would escape from the gasthamn (generally this involved a fairly intimate ritual with other …
Well – just for once the forecast was right! It had forecast very little wind all day and sure enough, there was very little. We managed a 45 minute spinnaker run shortly after leaving Gislövs läge, but the wind gradually faded and died, leaving us motoring around Skanör and Falsterbo. …
I am starting to wonder if I should muse out loud that I am going to go the opposite way and try and double bluff the wind because predictably a north-westerly was forecast (which would have been perfect) and a west south westerly arrived (which wasn’t!). The wind seems to …
How wrong does a forecast have to be before it ceases to be a forecast? well – today’s was on the margin of that … The forecast was for a westerly of around 7-9 knots. The reality was a south westerly of around 18-22 knots – quite a margin of …
In the spirit of exploring Bornholm a little further, we headed north today to the north-western tip of the island – a small harbour called Hammerhavn. The trip was a short one – just 6 miles from Hasle and we just pulled the jib out and pottered up there. In …
We had to sort out a new courtesy flag today. We headed for Bornholm – an island roughly 20 miles south of the south-eastern corner of Sweden. It is an island which has been fought over for years – originally Danish, the Swedish conquered the island in 1645. However, they …
We woke up to a beautiful morning – sunny and a very light breeze, so decided to head off straight away from Hano, leaving at around 7.30am. We knew that the route would take us just through a 15 mile offshore exclusion zone which runs from just north of Simrishamn …
