Portugal – Part 3

We left Sines and had a long day ahead. There was no more anchorages or marinas along the west coast of Portugal, so we had to round the corner, “Cape St. Vincent”, which also meant that we would start sailing east – instead of south. It was a lovely sunny day, but not much wind. […]

Portugal – Part 2

It was still dark when we left the anchorage at Peniche at 0600 o’clock. Our anchorage was on the north side of the peninsula Peniche. Just a few miles west of the peninsula is a group of small islands called Reserva Natural das Berlengas. It turned out that the area between the peninsula and the […]

Portugal – Part 1

On September 9th we arrived at the Rio Douro, in PORTUGAL. We dropped the anchor in the river, just west of Marina Douro. It was a perfect spot, with good holding, calm water, very nice view and only a short dinghy ride to shore. We were very excited to be here and exploring Porto – […]

Our current situation – Live update from Almerimar

We thought we would give you an update on our current situation and plans. We are in Puerto Deportivo Almerimar (Almerimar Marina) located on Costa del Sol in Spain. We arrived on the 5th of October along with our friends Bente and Peer on S/Y Cherie. We came here to do some work on our […]

The Galician Rias and Islands

We spent 5 days in A Coruña. By the time we left, we were 6 Danish sailboats in the marina. Some were sailing north and some had sailed the inshore route of the Biscay. And for some reason, we all ended up in the same marina at the same time. Our very good friends on […]

The Bay of Biscay and making new friends

I had told myself that these blogs were going to be shorter, but we are behind in time and want to catch up. And also – the content of this next blog is not easy to describe in few words – so bear with me. Camaret-Sur-Mer The English Channel was now behind us, ahead laid […]

Breskens to Camaret-Sur-Mer

After exiting the dutch channels, we can finally move many miles in a day; therefore, this telling will cover a longer stretch. Breskens to Calais Thursday the 6 of august, we had an early start to the day, untie the lines at half-past 6, getting to the fuel dock was easy, but to our big […]

Staande Mastroute – part 2

From Den Helder, we sailed to Amsterdam. Before leaving Willemsoord, we filled up on diesel and water. It was 46,5 nm and took us almost 12 hours. First, it was the Noordhollandsch Kanaal. Depth 2,85 meters, 49 kilometres long, max speed 9 km/h. It was not so exciting, and for a long time, we sailed along a […]

Staande mastroute – Part 1

Suddenly we found ourselves in Delfzijl, located on the Dutch side of the river Ems. We arrived here on the 22nd of July just before midnight. We left Cuxhaven, DE, 20 hours earlier. When we left Cuxhaven, we thought we were sailing to Borkum, DE. From here we would hopefully continue along the Dutch coast. […]

First leg

Denmark to Germany The rudder… On the 27th of June Sebastian and his farther started our journey, a couple of days before planned, and on a whole other way, as expected. We had a malfunction on our steering system. The rudder bearing below the waterline was damaged and needed to be fixed before the real […]