another season in the Baltic
Eventually the wind subsided a little, and blew from aft of the beam, so we ventured out towards Copenhagen, via a series of 4-6 hour harbour hops, and some very fast sailing in 20-25 knots of wind. Often the excitement is not the journey, it’s the arrival, and at one port of call we were […]
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This pretty town was a delight. The marina had great facilities, including working wi-fi – quite a treat! But the real attraction was the beautifully preserved house and gardens of the Danish artists Johannes and Ahled Larsen. It was charming, and stuffed full of their own paintings and gifts from their visiting artist friends. Everything […]
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Here we are, tied up securely in Stubbekjøbing harbour, as outside 38 knots squalls howl and torrential rain pours down at sudden unanticipated intervals. The harbour is full, mainly German charter boats, and the sea outside is empty of boats but churning away in the rain, wind and spray. Yesterday, one of the charter boats […]
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Sometimes the most unlikely spots really are the most memorable. Kolding is at the end of a long channel, and the marina is beside a large industrial port that seems to specialise in scrap metal shipping. The marina itself is mostly long term berths, with only a couple of visitors. But that meant that the […]
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Last weekend, we decided to sail to the pretty German city of Flensburg. We’d been chatting to German sailors who assured us there would be no Covid travel issues. And in fact all that we encountered was the harbour master there asking where we had sailed from, and when we said Denmark, he was happy. […]
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Way back last year (or was it even the year before?), the anchor had a rather too close encounter with a wooden post on a diesel pontoon. Oops. At first, we didn’t really notice that anything much had happened, but later realised that we were having more difficulty getting the anchor to hold, and then […]
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