Denmark

Three days in Goteborg in a nice but tight harbour, while we waited to welcome our new crew Anthony and Janet. They arrived in a thunderstorm, bearing 'Mrs Woodman's Sustaining Ocean Cake' in a Melodrama tin, a bottle of whisky with a recipe for a 'Melo Dram' - yum!, and some tea bags of course. Off we set for nearby ...

A blustery beat round a shoaling headland or a day sheltering behind the wall in Odde harbour? We chose to sample the delights of this small fishing village. It had a quirky Tuna Museum, and fabulous fish shop smoking herring and serving a lunch of a variety of local fish dishes with a craft beer, sitting on benches on the ...

The long hot summer is well and truly over. Melodrama is making her way along the Danish coast, harbour hopping towards Augustenborg in Southern Denmark. These Danish harbours are great. It's obvious they are old fishing ports, some still active, others now tourist spots. They provide great shelter, and all have shower blocks, and a fish shop. The Danes arrive ...

Mixed forecasts. Generally we look at four of them every day, and for a few days ahead. Usually there is a sort of consensus, but on Saturday, three agreed it would be a benign day, possibly up to Force 4, while one predicted Force 6 or more on the nose. From the harbour, a gentle breeze beckoned, and off we ...

It has been different, cruising in a sea without tidal rise and fall. We can pull into a little bay, drop anchor in sufficient depth, and that's it! No calculations of how far the sea level will drop and rise overnight, and how much our anchor chain will move towards the shore at low water, or shorten and pull out ...

The Danes call this area the 'South Sea Islands' and it is a delightful cruising ground, full of bays, harbours and anchorages on islands large and small, all with their own character. We spent a few days exploring, then a night in Dyvig, which the guidebook said was the prettiest bay in Denmark. It was indeed lovely, with birds flying ...